Distant, Distorted, Undefined… 😐 Yet Without Losing Faith

There are things that definitely feel very distant to me today, right now: the clouds, for example...

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All right, I know the clouds are distant for everyone really, but those who travel by plane get closer to them, don’t you think?

I’ve already started rambling, I know, but... but I will try to give shape to the idea.

Ok, I realise that some things once felt far away in my life, but today they are not. One of them, in fact, is so close that I can “touch” it and even “ride” it. 🤣 Don’t worry, I’ll soon tell you what I mean.

Very much in line with what I came to share with you is this post I published on 25 August. I remembered it while thinking about how to tell you what happened to me and to link the anecdote to something else I did and want you to know, at least those who are reading these lines.

Two lists for a Sunday _{You should give it a chance and see what that piece I wrote four months ago is about.}

It so happened that today I went to buy some spaghetti to make myself for lunch, and on my way back I noticed that in the crown of a royal palm, about 40 or 45 metres or maybe more from my house, there was a bird perched. I couldn’t tell what bird it was… so I started talking to myself, as I usually do in these and other situations:

Will I have time to open a gate and a door, go in and fetch the camera? Will I have time to also go to the room to get the SD card because I left it in the laptop yesterday? Will that blessed bird stay perched there so I can take its photo and at least manage to see what I’m looking at? I just can’t see it! From here it could be anything—a mockingbird, a thrush, a sparrow that ate too much pizza!

I hurried.

And yes, there was time.


f/6.3 - 1/1600 - 400 ISO	f/6.3 - 1/1600	f/9 - 1/1000

Poor Panasonic Lumix—no, poor me. The first photo I didn’t crop; it’s exactly what could be seen when using full zoom with my 45–200 mm lens. The second and third photos are two cropped shots to see if anything shows… well, it was a kestrel. Just look how much time has passed before I saw a kestrel again. And to top it all off, the bird took flight and stuck its wing right in the way… just as I pressed the shutter. No luck at all.

This is what I need, Universe! Not him, the camera! 😂 And a contract with NatGeo!

Creative visualisation cannot cease… but honestly, the power cuts we’re suffering are so discouraging. So the things I most long for now all appear distant, like that bird, and if I crop them to bring them closer, they look distorted, without definition… 😐 t’s what I’m feeling right now, and that’s why I’m writing it—to let off steam.

Do you know what this is? Maize, oil, salt, cheese… something you eat and eat and keep on eating because it tastes so good. Pelly, we know here as Pelly. How many memories this brings back from my childhood! I never eat it, but today… today, after I took those dreadful photos of the kestrel, I ate the whole packet of it, staring into nothingness.

And what was I talking about at the beginning? What I could touch and ride? LOL… of course, my bicycle! Do you know how much I longed for it? A lot, believe me. Years ago I wished for it, but its manifestation sped up under certain mental conditions, I admit. So then… with such certainty I keep my faith. I won’t deny that impatience gets the better of me and the darkness doesn’t help, 😩 doesn’t help… all right, I’ve already said that, I don’t want to be repetitive.

Well, if you’ve made it this far, and since we’ve got onto the subject of the bike, I’ll tell you that I created an alternative account which I automated with the Strava2Hive service.

Click on the banners if you wanna know! 😉

It doesn’t have much, only two posts, but I want to talk to you about this very soon with some ideas I already have, since I’m now taking charge “temporarily” of the Cycling Community. I would like to talk about the dangers of automation as well as its benefits, and also about what we can do to turn things not only in our favour, but in everyone’s.