Today is my birthday and I've thought about my mother. She, who gave me life. Who gave me the chance to live, to grow, to participate in this wonderful way.
So many years now? Well yes ... and so few. Time passes, runs, flies.
I would have liked to go in a museum in the capital but not enough money. I have just enough gasoline, times are tough, the crisis is hard. But I accept the limitations of this crisis, that I learned over the years, I agree to live with simplicity. It is not easy, there have been times better and have better times and worse. You have to accept what is, this moment and only him.
This walk with Laika, the field is a good gift that I do every day, and today is more precious. Look at Laika running and dancing on the grass, on hairy skin of this piece of land birds, few, scared by this flying around so energetic black dog, the black beam that comes and goes, this animal so happy and so present. If someone asked me who my teachers would say without hesitation: the dogs, my dogs. They teach me the natural, peace, acceptance of present moment. They, my dogs are my teachers. And Montaigne, of course.
My mother is gone, it was 5 years ago and left me alone, alone in this journey that is life. They say love of parents for their children Love is the biggest thing on earth. The Dalai Lama says. Say that you love as parents love their children. With compassion and patience, wisdom. And yes, my mother loved me very much. And I still love you, very much.
There is a wonderful scene in the film by the great film director Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris, where a child hugs his knees and finally to his father. I think this film because recently I saw a great work on human consciousness. And kneel and hug your parents is finally grateful for this life you have between the arms, this piece of earth under your feet, this sun, this sky, and all that is offered you by your parents. And your parents are also this bit of land that rub your feet, these rocks older than your years, these insects, the wind, the ancient sun, the cosmic sky.
Laika jumps like a gazelle on this day of my birthday. We walk into the swamp, rest a little while contemplating life throbbing under the slimy green water, we will look carefully to the heartbeat of the life of insects, the grass, the water itself and then return home safely, I will make a good fire in the fireplace, playing with Shiva and Zen, my two prairie dogs, listen to music, read a little. A simple day in my birthday which most simply accept.