People are places
When Jim Boyle asked me why my e-mail was the name of my neighbourhood back in Spain (Patraix), I said, "people are places".
This has developed in my mind in many directions. Jim is a certainly himself a place. For me, he is where the person that I was (when we first met) still lives. He is somewhere I like to visit. A living room in cold London where wit and warm silence take turns in conversation.
Las personas son lugares
Cuando Jim Boyle me preguntó por qué mi correo electrónico era el nombre de mi antiguo barrio en España (Patraix), le dije: -Las personas somos lugares.
Esto se ha ido desarrollando en mi mente, en muchas direcciones. Jim es ciertamente un lugar. Para mí, él es donde la persona que yo era (cuando nos conocimos) todavía vive. Y él es un lugar que me gusta visitar. Una sala de estar en el frío Londres donde el ingenio y el cálido silencio se turnan en conversación.
The you are a cold winters day in Dublin, smiling, pregnant and half way up a ladder painting a redbrick wall! :)
ReplyDeleteThe voice of Neptune himself!
ReplyDeleteNearly three years later I am getting ideas to finish up that wall...
Neptune: Somewhere like a windswept garden, not far from the cliffs.
ReplyDeleteThen you are a corner of Bar Granero with a hot cup of coffee in a rainy day.
ReplyDeleteJokin, is it possible for two people to be the same place?
Delete