I’m getting back on tracks as the summer comes to an end.
My summer was quiet exciting and as good as I expected.
June 6th was, for me, the beginning of my summer. My birthday always brings me a lot of joy and happiness. Since I’m a kid at heart, I secretly feel that this date is very special and the beginning of something new.
During this summer, I was in good company: for the first part with family and the second part with friends.
Two weeks in july at the beach house in Narragansett (RI), enjoying being with the nieces and nephews; swimming and surfing the ocean and practicing with my new video equipment and software. I had a lot of fun with everybody and was happy to borrow my nephew’s surfboard to “play” in the water without great success).
Two weeks in August on Cape Cod with friends. We spent the long summer days on the wildest untamed and prettiest beach of the region. It was nice to walk through the landscape with birds galore and fish tickling our feet.
I also spent time to help Ralph with the “Y Project”. I was extremely happy in June, when I arrived in Cambridge to see for the first time the four sculptures install along the river. I was proud by the work he accomplished. Ralph installed the “Y”s in different locations in Cambridge: Donnelly Field, Clement Morgan Park, Sennott Park and Corporal Burns Park
The project is questioning the people in a very basic and simple way. The four questions (Why Think?- Why AIDS?- Why Care?- Why Discriminate?) ask “the community to pay more attention and put more energy into caring”. Ralph is encouraging people to ask themselves what role they play in a situation that prevent it from changing.
Ralph is also involved in an art education programs with Cambridge Community Art Center's Summer Youth Program and Teen Media Program. I had the chance to meet the youth in June and to see the videos they made inspired by the "Y" Project, in August. It was such a joy to see the way these teens took Ralph idea and project to create short movies that will be presented during a youth film festival in November.
Most of summers end by the fast return to the shorting days that are leading to winter. Even if in the past few days, I wake up before the sun, I keep on my skin a trace of the summer sun and carry it with me as a reminder that summer is not that long ago.
I thank you all to have made my summer so wonderful. I was away from this blog for a while, and the summer made me learn that even if I don’t have a lot of readers, the exercise help me to progress and grow.
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