This brightness makes branches of trees, legs of people and
big sea birds disappear. Such a brightness cannot be flat: it is like a white lava
running out of the picture.
Summer, sand, wind, noise of waves.
The big seagull appearing from nowhere in the evening.
Your body is nicely stretched by swimming, skin is hot thanks to the Sun.
The beach becomes empty and the Sun is reflected in
the water of the etang. The reflection is so intensive, that
a car passing by, seems to loose the carrosierie's posts.
Brightness
surrounds all the tiny elements like a ring.
This brightness makes branches of trees, legs of people and
big sea birds disappear. Such a brightness cannot be flat: it is like a white lava
running out of the picture.
Maybe in an hour you will come back to one of these moments when you were lying on your towel, breathing faster then normal and watching the tears of salty water, like pearls, on your arms. Close, so close that you can not focus your eyes. You can see only bits of sunlight reflected inside. On this piece of sand, just between the sea and the land, it seemed to you that you were between the Large Hot Sun and the Large Friendly Gaia. On the border of two powerful elements, who took care about you.
Your problems and stresses, facing the endless sea and planet Earth, becomes negligible, like a matchbox bounced by the fire of prairie. Observation of infinite line of horizon, soft sand and distanced silhouettes of human bodies, gives a feeling of pleasure which could be repeated over and over again. Pleasure worth living. In such an observation our relation to subjects is clean. No aggression which we usually use in everyday life. Nobody is hurt, we look as the observer and not the owner of objects. And the world seems to be more friendly to us, than we thought it was before.
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