Notes:
- Photo: “The return of cold temperatures helps to create ideal outdoor skating conditions in Freeport, Maine.” (Robert F. Bukaty, AP, wsj.com December 26, 2018)
- Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
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Wow what a picture of a landscape and a child enjoying himself. Awesome.
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really is a wonderful shot. which triggered memories of ice skating for me.
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Yes absolutely and seeing this child I too was remembering my childhood memories.
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floating
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Yes. Exactly.
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Ditto for me on the memories. We had a vacation home on a lake when I was a kid, and I spent countless hours skating in the cove. This photo took me right back. Winter distilled.
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I could see you doing that. I could.
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This photo looks like it was taken from someone’s dream. It has a dreamy magical feel to it.
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Beautifully stated Sawsan. I couldn’t describe what I felt or saw but you did it.
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And Your thought reminds me of:
It’s not over yet.
A dream can spend
all night fighting off
the morning. Let me
start again. A stream
may be a branch or a beck,
a crick or kill or lick,
a syke, a runnel. It pours
through a corridor. The door
is open. The keys
are on the dashboard.
~ Elizabeth Willis, from Ephemeral Stream (Poem-A-Day on January 2, 2014)
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Smiling…
LOVE it! Yes, some dreams, we don’t want them to end!
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How come that your 2nd citations are often even better than the 1st ones? Just asking… 😏🤗
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Laughing. Back handed compliments. Love it!!!
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I call them “poisoned compliments”… but made with a big smile and therefore honest and friendly 😏😊
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!!!!!!
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Brrreautiful 😊
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Ha! Yes.
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That picture is perfection, David.
Like Sawsan said, it does have a dreamy quality to it.
And what Canadian child has not skated on a body of frozen water?
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Yes Dale. Agree with All.
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BTW… I just told Claire about you quoting her “Bitter Orange”…
The woman read 94 – NINETY-FOUR books this year… Jeez…
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Wow. I couldn’t read 94 book reviews in one year. Impressive.
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She read 94 books… not reviews! I’m in awe…
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I know. I couldn’t even read 94 book reviews (forgot about 94 books)!
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This photograph makes my photographer’s soul glide.Beautiful!
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It is soul moving! Agree.
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Freedom, Solitude, Building Mastery, Enjoyment – Whew!
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Yes. All that!
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Thanks for the memory David. That was me, fifty years ago, skating on a frozen Connecticut pond before school in the morning. Figuratively speaking.
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Awww, so great. Thanks for sharing Ilona…
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As I peel a “Christmas orange,” that image transports me to my childhood, red-faced and sweaty. Carrying skates tied at my shoulder, walking down the hills of the coulee to the frozen beaver pond on which we’d skate, play hockey and fly!
Ahh! Thank you
MJ
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Awww, beautifully captured MJ. I can see and feel all that…
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Telling about my skating experiences wd take too long on the phone…. So let’s leave it. Lovely nostalgic moment (here, not mine!)
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This photo triggers all that for many of us.
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