Saying good-bye.

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At first, it really seems strange to say goodbye to something that i know it will happen only within 6 months. But it is due to the fact that yesterday we bought, at last, our one way ticket to home and that made me feel a litlle bit «out of place» inside my deepest self.

I have talked a little bit about my first experience here before, but it is funny to say that - different from everybody that i know -, i could never imagine how much i could myself grow some roots in a place that is by far quite different from my actual home.

In this case, it brings to my mind another question: what is really home to someone? I used to think that «home» would always - would ever be - the place i was born. However, it took me around 6 months to change my view about this misconception. Finally, during the summer of 2009, i accepted Porto as my home by heart.

And then...time has passed so fast.

Only a few days ago i realized - during some walks around the town - how much i´m gonna miss all this city has always offered to me - its history, its cafés, its silence, its cold and greyish sky during winter, its deep bright blue sky during the summer, its parks (especially this one - my favourite place on earth), its food, and the most important fact - many great friends that we made (me and my husband) during these almost two years of our lives...

O Do Not Love Too Long

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Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long
And grew out of fashion
Like an old song.

All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known
Their own thought from the other´s,
We were so much at one.

But O, in a minute she changed -
O do not love too lon,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.

William Butler Yeats - In the Seven Woods, 1904

Life is...

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Stuff no one told me (but I learned anyway)

 Stuff no one told me (but I learned anyway) is a pretty nice blog that i just happened to find today. It is really a simple way to show how life works deep down in our feelings, important stuff that we learn as time passes by in our lives. Some messages really help you to get you through day:

These are my favourite ones that represent pretty much what i learned from life. :)

Summer Sky or the Nostalgic Days

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“The heavens opened for the sunset tonight. When I have thought the day folded and sealed, came a burst of heavenly bright petals…I sat behind the window, pricked with rain, and looked until that hard thing in my breast melted and broke into the smallest fountain, murmuring as aforetime, and I drank the sky and the whisper.”

 Katherine Mansfield, Journal, 1914.

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Summer sunset skies come to my mind in the shape of old memories of my life...like the days i spent «standing at the beach, staring at the sea» - The Cure reference here - a certain lazyness and melancoly, well described by Janis Joplin in «Summertime», a feeling of longing to be somewhere else in the world, a nostalgic feeling of an old first lover, an almost untouchable feeling of childhood - the immeasurable feeling of happiness i felt as a kid - and finally, the good and old bike days around my neighborhood.

This is summer to me.