Imagine

Imagine a morning breeze above the calm sea waves lightly hitting the shore. The sun is just about to rise, there is an infinite tranquility, an eternal peace, an unbreakable stillness, an illusion that the sun will not yet rise, the breeze will not keep blowing, the sea waves will always soothingly caress the sand on the shore. There is nobody anywhere, it is too early for life to begin moving, to start making brutal noises, to smell fishing boats, morning coffee or of people's sweat. No, it is a time of calmness when everything stops and prepares itself for a fresh morning, a new beginning, just that it doesn't come yet, the night has yet to ripen into a new day.

This is exactly what I need right now in a European metropolis full of wild cars, loud people, violent ads, nicely smelling bakeries and screaming thoughts all around. Sometimes life is playful sometimes life gives you some hard kicks, but sometimes what you really really need is a horizontal line of a motionlessness. Just breathe in deeply, breathe out, take a break, take a break, before the sun starts a new day and everything starts moving again and your head starts spinning ...

(Photos were taken last weekend in Deauville, Normandy. It was a way too short rest by the ocean.)