🐘I CAN SEE AFRICA FROM MY TERRACE🐘
I was born in Africa🌍.
I didn’t have a farm but I lived there.
I came into the world in the mythical city of Casablanca🎥
I lived there a wonderful childhood where we were all super happy. Really.
My grandparents fled Spain at the end of the civil war because they were republicans.
That’s a long story, and I’m sure I’ll tell you other stories about that period of emigration, effort, work and happiness.
But today let’s get down to business
When I decided to come to live in Marbella, I never thought I would see Africa from my terrace.
At night we can even see the lights of the houses and during the day, if the sky is clear, the outline of the mountains.
Africa has something unique and special
If you have freaked out with the smells and lights of an African sunrise or sunset, you know what I’m talking about🌅
When you experience that in your childhood, it sticks in your skin and in your memories.
And you need to go back again and again because you connect with something of yourself there, something deep.
It’s the same with your village, or with a place that brings back good memories…
What is that special place that you connect with?
Although there are those who say “Never go back to where you were happy”.
Because it’s not easy to be happy again with the same intensity.
Things change. And people. And circumstances… . and maybe even the landscapes.
It has also happened to me: returning to a place where I was happy and spending a horrible day….
But to Africa I always need to return
Again and again
And that’s why I love ornaments like this bead-lined ostrich egg sent to us by artisans from the Ndebele ethnic group in South Africa:
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If you love that continent as intensely as I do 🖤, tell me about it, I’d love to read about it.
Hugs,
Teresa 🌺
Pd: One off the bizarre things I’ve done in my life.., I’ve also raised ostriches. Stranger things have happened. Another day I’ll tell you about it.
PS: They have a great time, hey. They live in trios. I mean ostriches.
PS: The photo is from an orphanage for elephants in Nairobi: The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
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