Move

Okay, I want you to stop and close your eyes for just one second and think about this: What is your favorite memory of all times? Isn't it amazing how you get a moment of endless flashes of all those wonderful things that continue to make you smile? This post is dedicated to those things that make us MOVE, REMEMBER and LIVE. Before explaining, take a few minutes to watch this video. I love how as soon as they get asked the question, their eyes start to skit and they smile and say, "Oh Wow". Memory:

                                                                                     

                                  

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And so, I thought I would share with you the beauty of remembering and acknowledging what we live now based on simply moving and doing those things that make us live everyday. My life these last few years have been composed of adapting to and creating endless memories.  I have so many memories! If I had to choose just one? The night my dad and I stretched out on the driveway on a warm night and waited for my mom to come home from work. We were looking at the stars and I asked him, "If infinity is infinity, what's behind infinity? If, for instance, there was a wall, would there be another infinity?" And I loved the idea that something out there was endless! And he took hold of my hand and smiled and made up some kind of story and I felt that my entire small being was an infinity, accepting that eventually there would be a wall. I was only about 10 years old and it is one of those memories that I can still feel. The warmth of the asphalt, the cool autumn breeze and my dad's wrinkled hand. Maybe, just maybe, that day was the day I thought I could do just about anything.

Years later, I find myself doing precisely that, doing what I think I should be doing. Living, teaching, absorbing and making the best of what I'm given and taking in all the endless images I witness daily.
My work alone has me running all over Barcelona from class to class, home to home, office to bigger office and walking into someone's personal life for about 1.5 hours a week (sometimes a little more) and listening to endless stories, while I correct, explain grammatical rules and repeat why, 'no, you can't say that', or 'well...that's an exception', or just listen because they just want to speak. I start at about 11am with my bag full of material and don't stop until about 9 at night, my bag weighing less and my head a few pounds heavier with thought. And so the next video I think you should watch is this amazing collage of a handsome fellow who travelled for 44 days, 11 countries, moving:

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Memory and movement, isn't it great how they are linked? After having watched this, I thought of all the places I've moved in and to, all the different landscapes, buildings, faces and languages I've witnessed and the idea is endless!

To top it off, and now that I have you thinking, I want you to remember. To live those moments that have created the you you are and to smile as Autumn starts descending on us, giving us the opportunity to breath another season and create. And to walk! Watch! Listen!  Isn't living in the now great?! And as Mr Buzz Lightyear says himself: "To infinity and beyond!!!!!!!"