Tag: happiness

24 Jan

Laughing at the Sun

Do you know that it’s possible for me to watch the sunset these days? Through a glass window, while the bus is driving. Driving through snow and ice, and wind and light. Not darkness, anylonger. Not darkness… Spring is coming, change is coming. I can feel it in the water, smell it in the air… The sun [...]
21 Dec

Winter Solstice, Yule and Christmas

The sun is turning, the days will become lighter once again. At this very moment it’s rising, and in a couple of hours it will set once again. And hopefully it will do so for many more years to come, and for us to see. The smell of snow, the smell of cold winter air, even [...]
27 Oct

Autumn View, part I

Have you ever smelled the fog? Creeping in your nose, tickling with its frosty nature. Feeling fresh and old at the same time. Wheat air, low sky. You can touch the heaven, without ever reaching it. You can smell the earth, without toching it with more than your feet. It’s Autumn, the sky is grey [...]
19 Aug

My First Goddess

I remember first meeting her; in August, I was six years old. The wind was blowing, it smelled like salt and somewhere new, a place I had never been. While the air was fuzzying her hair, her blue eyes were smiling, and she told me her name. She was like no one I had ever met [...]