Anniversary of a memory

[vaneramos]

May 18, 2003 was one of the single most lovely and memorable days of my life. It was nothing remarkable, just a drive and hike in the countryside with my daughters, but it recorded itself so well in my mind and here on LJ in images and music that I can hold onto it as long as my mind lasts.

Most of the pics in my journal before the end of June 2003, when wonderboymi started hosting my images, have been removed from the Internet. Last night I replaced the three shots that appeared in the May 18 entry.

Go see.

For the musical reference, here are mp3 clips from Joachim Rodrigo's Concierto Andaluz for Four Guitars and Orchestra (1967): Bolero; Adagio; Allegretto. Born in Spain in 1901, Rodrigo went blind as a child and wrote his music in Braille. He died in 1999. This had been one of my best "feel good" pieces for a few years, but now I can never hear it without remembering that radiant car ride.

Physicists are discovering that time is not as linear as we perceive it. It is good to recall past happiness not with longing but with knowledge that it's a part of who we are, which can never be taken away.

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

what lovely pictures! :)

>It is good to recall past happiness not with longing but with knowledge that it's a part of who we are, which can never be taken away.

thank you for that thought! i need to remember it.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you and you're welcome. That crabapple blossom pic is my favourite out of about 18,000 images I've taken on this camera.

[missprune.livejournal.com]

I love your observation regarding how to remember past happiness. Very well put and helpful.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It's one of the key lessons I've learned in self-therapy over the years, my own synthesis from ideas in Stephanie Dowrick's writing. Remembering happiness this way is an important part of being able to enjoy ourselves now in the company of others. I need to apply it better in overcoming anxiety, too.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

That first shot suggests Wyeth's "Christina's World" without the sadness.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Interesting comparison! I am familiar with that painting. I don't know whether it occurred to me subconsciously when I took this picture, but I was striking for the same perspective.