Necklaces

Today's post is not directly related with food, but with the sweet feeling that invaded me as we were driving outside Lisbon this morning. We got it in our minds that we should go to Sintra but then somehow we missed the entrance (or could it be the exit?) and eventually found ourselves driving through Colares. You know Colares has that air around it that you can never really describe as someone who is unattainable and to whom you can never find the nerve to speak to... It's like Carmen Dolores who, some years ago, in a radio interview said that she had never got any parts to play a peasant and that made her really sad, but everyone said she seemed to have such an air about her that it would never really work; she could never be credible in such a role. Colares is like that, only it is a place. And then, as if to fight that feeling, there's a saying at the very exit 'Leve Colares no coração' which is something like 'Take Colares in your heart', which I find really sweet. Then we translated it wholy and got 'Take necklaces in your heart' which I thought was even better. And then R. surpassed himself with 'Light necklaces in your heart' which of course is really poetic even if not the best of translations. We then progressed to discuss the virtues of the word 'leve' which is exactly as it should be. A word which is what it describes. I remembered having read this which I thought was a post that really put a smile on my lips, for hours after I read it.
All this conversations about lightness made my day. Of course I could speak of the wonderful lunch, the smell of wet earth when it suddenly started raining or the feeling from just holding his hand in silence... but more than anything, its the feeling of having so many necklaces in my heart that fills it with joy.