This mindless simplicity can be called happiness
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I wanted to find “mindless simplicity” of green colour, but it took me too long and I settled on pink simplicity. I am sure simplicity does not even have a colour, same as happiness or joy. I personally cannot resist the colour Blue.
Happiness, divine and banal word, a complex proposition which shifts its boundaries constantly, and sometimes feels so very easy. (page 12)
Happiness? The colour of it must be spring green, impossible to describe until I see a just-hatched lizard sunning on a stone. That colour, the glowing green lizard skin, repeats in every new leaf. “The force that through green fuse drives the flower…” Dylan Thmas wrote. “Fuse” and “force” are excellent word choices – the regenerative power of nature explodes in every weed, stalk, branch. Working in the mild sun, I feel the green fuse of my body, too. Surges of energy, kaleidoscopic sunlight through the leaves, the soft breeze that makes me want to say to word “zephyr” – this mindless simplicity can be called happiness. (page 6)
From Frances Mayes “Bella Tuscany (The Sweet Life in Italy)”.
I must admit, she has a wonderful writing style, and I am capable enjoying it from time to time, but I guess I picked this book at a wrong time. As much as I loved the film “Under the Tuscan Sun”, I don’t seem to get in the mood of “Bella Tuscany”. It is somebody else’s life pleasant and full of discoveries. And I only have reached page 60 out of 286. When the author started sharing recipes, I thought, “Oh, no! Too much for me”, but then again, maybe I should just read. Maybe I will never see Italy. Maybe I should enjoy somebody else’s story.
Maybe, maybe, maybe….Forse, forse, forse….
April 26th, 2010 | Tags: "Bella Tuscany", "Under the Tuscan Sun", banal, divine, energy, force, Frances Mayes, happiness, simplicity | Category: English, Literature, Quotes | 
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