Antisocial?

That’s it. I’m definitely an antisocial. But is it really so bad to want to be on your own, absolutely on your own for a while? Is it really so horrible to put the answering machine on because you need to meet a work deadline and you don’t have the time to talk to your ladies of leisure friends who don’t have anything to do in their life apart phoning you (so sad)? After over a month of my parents being here and the kids (and husband) being at home for the (very long) Easter break, I really need a bit of peace and quiet, I need to be ALONE! Is this being antisocial? If so, then I’m. But I’m a working mother - even worse I am a self-emplyed working mother! - and I’ve got deadlines. So if you’re thinking of phoning me today, please don’t. I won’t answer anyway! Sorry.

In these chaotic and busy weeks/days pre-Christmas, I only wish silence and peace. I've just remembered a few lines from a poem written by one of my favourite poets, Federico Garcia Lorca, and I think it goes well with the above photo taken in my beloved Italian countryside last October.

(extract)

Listen, my child, to the silence.
An undulating silence,
a silence that turns valleys and
echoes slippery,
that bends foreheads toward the ground.


Oye, hijo mío, el silencio.
Es un silencio ondulado,
un silencio, donde resbalan valles
y ecos y
que inclina las frentes hacia el suelo.

(Federico Garcia Lorca)