Oct 22: Frozen Moment in Time

One afternoon as the crisp autumn winds tried in vain to evict those stubborn clouds, I wrapped myself in a terry bathrobe and a huge towel at the edge of my personal infinity pool overlooking the Adriatic. I dipped my legs into the icy water until they were numb, and then, for a couple of hours, I allowed my worries and cares to float into the abyss. I drifted in and out of Mad Mabel but to be honest, reading was stressful as I soaked up a certainly once in a lifetime moment. 

I thought about the opportunity to touch the same Colosseum as the gladiators and the chance to make orecchietti in a centuries old kitchen, grateful that I can still walk 15,000 steps a day when I need to do so!  I was alone, up there on the edge of the sea and yet I was there with all who were not there with me. 

It took several attempts to extricate myself from that aging chair inches from the stone, the water and view. The gigantic Mediterranean flora begged me to stay while the waves promised the Apulian seafood feast was still hours away! Perhaps, I thought, I needed just a few more minutes even if I was shivering? Perhaps, I needed to really freeze that moment in time!