I've hit a temporary yet two-pronged speed bump in my blog posts and the progress of my manuscript (so, really, it's a double-sided two-pronged speed bump). I know, I know - excuses, excuses. And yet, explaining myself seems to alleviate a bit of the guilt (is that the Catholic heritage talking?). Anyways - work is crazy, and quite successfully impinging on My Life, paired with the fact that my beloved laptop is in the hands of techie-fixer-uppers for the next couple of weeks or so. Alas, I am dismayed. And so, the Pic of the Day phenomenon continues, until I can once again seclude myself in the comfort of my wonderful little studio and tap tap tap out the travel stories that are constantly occupying some space of my brain....like sex. Haven't you ever heard about those studies that claim people think of sex every five seconds or something? They're usually referring to just men, but that's simply an oversight...big time. So, full-circle-style - that's how these travel stories are for me - every five seconds or so. Like sex.
My original idea with the "Pic of the Day" (temporarily en lieu of riveting travel journal entries) was that I would post photos in chronological sequence of the actual camera shutter. But considering the tone of the Stream of Consciousness delivered above, I must now skip ahead in the timeline....to Argentina. Yes, my Darlings, it's like sex - the sensations are different, and the situations and circumstances and course of events are different - but the AMBIANCE....the ambiance of Argentina is very, extremely sexy. And if you don't see it or feel it, you just need to hang out for a minute. It's there.
Consider the meal in this photo for a moment - it's just bits of meat and cheese and olives and berries, and it's just a glass of wine, and it's just a little cafe somewhere outside of Mendoza. But it's so much MORE. If only I could communicate via this blog the sound of the music on the patio and bicycles on the street, and the melodic lull of people chatting softly in Spanish all around us, and the way the waiter kept winking at me when Jax wasn't looking, and the way women's skirts flowed in the evening breeze that cooled our sweaty skin...
That food looks iffy and tasty....like sex.
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if·fy
ReplyDeletePronunciation: \ˈi-fē\
Function: adjective
Etymology: 1if
Date: 1937
1 : having many uncertain or unknown qualities or conditions (an iffy proposition)
2 : of inconsistent or unreliable quality
— if·fi·ness noun
What word has four letters but uses only three, and meanings that are both certain and not so? :)
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