Photo: Buenos Aires Dawn by blmurch
We depart today for our five week trip to Argentina.
Anticipation, fatigue, excitement, running around maniacally. No matter how much I travel, I always feel less prepared than I’d like as I leave for the airport. One piece of mail I forgot to open, one person I forgot to say good-bye to.
Despite the usual hassles, there’s a sweet darkness in the air, like night before sunrise. I can’t quite picture the senses of tomorrow, the light of BA’s Ezeiza International Airport arrival gate. Sunrises go about their affairs, like cities, but the variable changes in first person. A witnessed sunrise, a new city, is vivid, intimate, making everyday materials and life more…more beautiful, more alive.
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My husband and I read aloud Pablo Neruda last night to channel South America. I don’t know if there’s anything more sexy than Neruda’s love poems. An excerpt from one of my favorite poems, La Noche En La Isla (Night On The Island):
Toda la noche he dormido contigo (All night I have slept with you)
Junto al mar, en la isla. (Next to the sea, on the island.)
Salvaje y dulce eras entre el placer y el sueño, (Wild and sweet you were between pleasure and sleep,)
Entre el fuego y el agua (Between fire and water)
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On another note, I read this beautiful quote yesterday on Ekua’s Peregrina Feminina‘s site:
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
- Howard Thurman
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Looking forward to my next post from Argentina…
Wooot, safe travels! Can’t wait to hear about your trip.
Ughhh jealous
Have a super amazing adventure!
I’m sooo excited for you – I can’t wait to hear about the trip
Have a fantastic time! Can’t wait to get to Argentina myself.
Have fun on your trip, I’m sure it will be awesome. I always feel unprepared right before I leave as well, but that all disappears when I arrive at my destination.
Thanks for the shout out
Have so much fun! I’m extremely jealous today…
@Candice: Thanks!! I´ll drink a glass of malbec for you.
Knowing your travels, you would love it here too!
@Amiee: Thanks! It´s already turning out great.
@Abbie: Thanks! No doubt.
@Lola: You would love Argentina. Of course, I think you´d be hard-pressed not to love it!
@Ekua: Thank YOU for having a wonderful blog.
@Stephanie: We´re already having a ball. I guess I won´t mention that it´s summertime here in BsAs too.
Oh so true– there’s NOTHING sexier than Neruda. My husband and I have lines from a Neruda poem (“Tu Venias”) engraved on our wedding bands and keep a book of his poems (usually The Captain’s Verses) by our bed.
@Julie-that’s so beautiful that you both have “Tu Venias” engraved on your wedding bands. There is nothing more sexy or sensual than Neruda.