Saturday, October 27, 2012

A B-day celebration with pomp and circumstance! - going back in time. Part 1

Time has arrived. Pretty soon I'll be 60. (not yet 64, as Paul McCartney sings so nicely... 
All year around, I kept getting in touch, here and there, with "pains and aches": of my body, of my soul!
I realized I was going through desidealizations!I got in touch with finitude, of my life, of my body...
Amazing how it hurts. The impression I would not survive. 

And,as time went by, and life was urging me to react,  more then ever I realized I was in the middle of a chaotic time. Not the first in my life but this one was inside myself! And by the end of it, new discoveries, new connections I would be able to make. Would I? 
I had to do something! 

And here comes the first emerging revelation: it doesn't kill you! It can make you stronger, paradoxically, however. 
The essentials for it is resilience and ability to be alone without feeling solitary!

Well, in the middle of this turmoil I realized I had to go through another journey into  my personal story, my memories.... to strengthen some re-emerging weak neural connections. This had to be done mostly with my memories. This was a lonesome process - me with myself!I did not need the Compostela's way (but cross by chance on a small part of it - concretely speaking (part 3). And, the moment came. Two months ahead of my B-Day!. These photos are the first step towards a dream coming true!. My dear hubby Vicente understood my need to go through it. A revival bringing back in time dreams to be linked to reality.
My ancestors got to the South of Brazil coming from Austria and Germany (one of them a german jewish. In saying this one can imagine being through holocaust means suffering on both sides! 

Our first stop was at the city of Graz;there,  a special celebration, for 12 austrians, was happening; They saved, inside a mountain - the Schlossberg, with special air-systems build in, 45000 jewish during the second war! It was a good introspection moment! 
Graz is a gorgeous city, South located, the capital of Styria. Graz remained intact through world war two, buildings dating from the 14th century. I had the impression, sometimes, I was walking in a picture book! 
The pictures attached, resume some of the great moments I had, before we would drive towards  the city I had in mind to have great moments. This will be described on the day of my B-Day! 

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