A few instant memories collected through quick moments of fresh air. While the only permanent factor lately in our lives is the change and the way we can accomplish new ways for our own very old routines, personal behaviours achieve new ways of appreciation. Perspective has been taken and transformed as a basic tool, a way to feel alive.

Simple observations are more relevant than ever before. That’s a good way to start thinking about what things really matter, what kind of ways will direct our existence.

Getting lost in Sophie Calle calls for a good day.

The process of putting all your dreams and thoughts together each morning, distorted perspectives, all that strength and all that motion aligning your bones, your hopes, feeding your roots. For all those brave rivers made by our untold words, for all those stories that weren’t completed. All those sequences waiting to start. Ellipsis.

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

— Joan Didion

Perspectives / realities / processes / evolutions.

Self-awareness.

The power of simplicity around each step. To maintain the light in our near horizon, to feed our seas of hope. To keep dreams alive.

To keep our motion up.

“I was happy when I walked the streets of Paris by myself.”

— Patrick Modiano

It was a cold morning, it was our first day at town, I recall it was early, may be not, we were walking through known paths, our hands were frozen and the streets were less crowded than usual.

We passed by a café and we ordered coffee and tea, then we walked for another hour. There was not destination other than feel us well. We got in there.

Souvenir, Paris, 2018.

After a week off I’m returning back to desk tasks today. This time we are living in has de power on hands to make things look greater than they are, or at least it’s able to focus our attention in a very different way, increasing all perspectives and showing us a different meaning of things, the ones that previously were so much relevant now seem to be very secondary or even irrelevant in some situations, the ones we took as default now have a deeper importance. We tend to situate ourselves as priority now. Untouchable things are now much basic than before. Irrelevance of things help us to have a better solution. Perspective is playing its role. Resilience is making the hardest part. We are slowly transforming all previous statement by giving authentic value.

And here I’m, waiting for the day to turn the darkness off, waiting in silence with my thoughts and coffee while listening the outdoor birds singing their chorus. Appreciation of simple situations offer a tremendous state of mindfulness.

Life is motion.

Darkness is off.

Horizons filled by words and deep expectations, untold phrases creating inimaginable stories, uncontrolled motion willing for action. Life and its own paths.

“Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don’t even know.”

— Patrick Modiano

Went outdoors for the first time in 4.5 months, took the Leica M with me and now we both are refreshed, the most simple things always feel so great. Life is motion.

“In those days, I thought I was happy.”

— Patrick Modiano

The way we can instantly connect with strangers along our path. How they can perform untold episodes in our own stories is absolutely amazing. By sharing emphatic situations, by showing unnoticed similarities, by teaching us great lessons about ourselves in the most pure innocence way. Magic of living. Missing those moments. Missing that motion.

Paris, 2018.

“A mí nunca me ha parecido el otoño una estación triste. Las hojas secas y los días cada vez más cortos nunca me han hecho pensar en algo que se acaba, sino más bien en una espera de porvenir. Hay electricidad en el aire de París en los atardeceres de octubre, a la hora en que va cayendo la noche. Incluso cuando llueve. No me entra melancolía a esa hora, ni tengo la sensación de que el tiempo huye. Sino que todo es posible. El año comienza en el mes de octubre.”

— Patrick Modiano

“What a peculiar path I’ve had to take in order to reach you.”

— Patrick Modiano

Self assessment, the main idea I had planned for this year. Then, this odd path the life has planned for all of us. In the middle of this time of changes and challenges what really remains with us is the perspective we have about our environment and the way we find us able to walk trough. And all of our ways are peculiar. All of our own steps carry our motion out.

We created our own fortress where space and mindfulness are mixed together, we were able to expand our own physical limits to coexist with our imaginary desires and emotions, we have made a better and softer bed of dreams, we claimed our calm and safety as base, we built ourselves as preference, we tried to imagine and we tried to live. We are safe, we are in motion. Each day at a time.

In the middle of all this entire transformation about our existence and beliefs, the mundane things around our common days take a higher importance, the way those simple unappreciated actions and the way untold observations get louder and stronger than ever before, the way we use what we have on hands, the way we try to couple with paths that were missed before, the form our steps are taking and how life’s transformation is getting in place on a simpler way than the imagined before. No matter how hard and difficult this phase may look, we can always find comfort on common things and actions around our normal life. The way we use perspective is a solid path to keep our minds alive, to remember that we shouldn’t be pushing ourselves to the extreme but to carry on our emotions into single and small situations that may help us to feel safe and sound. To find motion in simple details.

Day 122.

We are also made by those simple and unnoticed observations, commonly unappreciated.

“Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.”

— Patrick Modiano

Wouldn’t mind.

This thing has been with me for the last two years. On days like these it feels greater than anything.