1. Valparaíso, in a light rain, with all of the concrete holding a silver glow; pedestrians stumbling under umbrellas and car lights catching every surface like mirrors.
2. An umbrella.
3. Plastic bags inside your sneakers (so as not to be distracted by wet toes).
4. A warm wind that tries periodically to take your umbrella or push your hair into your face.
5. Something piano-based, either swelling or quiet (but not in between) on your headphones (recommended: Regina Spektor "Us," Cold Play "Warning Sign," just about anything by Eric Satie).
6. A touch of melancholy; thoughts of past and future and the scattering prism of possibility that lies in between.
Mix simultaneously, wander throughout the afternoon, casting searching, knowing glances at passers-by with an air of silent companionship.
For a richer flavor: add one ride up Cerro Concepcion on Acensor La Reina, with an old man who looks sadly out the window towards the ocean hidden in fog.
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Hi, good comment, specially the third point, i have lived in Valparaíso for 28 years, and i had never thought.
You convert a bored day, in a special day.
One more post like that, and you will win a book: "Papelucho", (in spanish, of course).
greetings, Samuel.
Yayyyyyy! New cooking partner! It looks like you have food on the mind too... :)
Lunch Tuesday or Wednesday?
I laugh in the face of the Chilean clock.
What time is good for you?
Ok, so I didn't read your post before I left a comment.... and now I just want to say "wow."
its really lovely.
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