66 Square Feet: Summer rain

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Summer rain

I know this won't make me popular in this neck of the woods, but I wouldn't mind a couple more crashing thunderstorms. I look forward to walking home in the rain, feet out of my slippery flip- flops, clean water rushing through the streets, feet bare in street streams.

4 comments:

m. heart said...: We're supposed to have storms here this afternoon, though the sun is shining gloriously in a blue sky at the moment. A rare sight. Too bad I'm at work.

I used to love walking barefoot on the rainy sidewalks in Providence when I lived there, and always looked forward to seeing storms over the water.; June 30, 2009 9:24 AM
Rachel said...: Mmmm, I love a good thunderstorm too, especially those that come after a heavily charged atmosphere and a strange yellow light in the sky. Not so sure about the walking barefoot in the streets though....; June 30, 2009 9:59 AM
Beence said...: Hm, if that's a picture of rain, we sure have different rain over here... But I generously grant you all the rain you want - before I get there. ;-); June 30, 2009 10:09 AM
new york city garden said...: Rain is granted, maybe this evening.

I get thirsty seeing all that cumulonimbo moisture pumping into the stratosphere.; June 30, 2009 2:41 PM

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What is 66 Square Feet About?

It's about gardening in tight spaces. It's about how to live with a man and a cat in a tiny apartment with a tiny terrace. It's about photos, and friends, and inspiration and blackspot on the roses. It's about food and cooking over an open flame. It's about wine. And water. And watering...And picnics. It's about seasons without and within. It's about New York, and about South Africa. It's about where I go, and what I come back to: a terrace twelve-and-three-quarters by five-and-a-quarter feet wide.

Afterwards in the street, she looks around the neighborhood. "Yes, it is certified now."

She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere."

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

"Die kierie kom uit Indonisie, gesny van 'n tak wat van jongs af omslinger was deur a wildevy se rank. Hulle het saam grootgeword, en die rank het sy spoor op die tak gelos. Daarom is die slinger ook oneweredig, en hier,"se hy, "by die punt van die kierie moes daar iets gebeur het - die slinger en die tak het inmekaar gevleg en 'n knoop gemaak. Die natuur het die kierie so gemaak."

"n Kieriemaker sou dit eweredig gedoen het," se ek.

"My kind," se meneer Boje, "vermy die reguit lyn."

Petra Muller, Koendoes