crazydiamond
The alchemist mixes is for life. Others use it for truth, perhaps beauty, fame, fortune. It is the idea of what it can do, what it can bring that drives people to search for it. One could waste and entire lifetime trying to find that elixir that will give us what we want.
The softness of that fabric brings be back to sleepovers, giggling, watching Greece and Now and Then. I loved the thickness of flannel pajamas, the way they kept my ever-cold body warm even in the most frigid of winters.
The afternoon sun cast shadows on the Parque, where guidebooks say you can find idyllic scenes of lovers and guitars, little children, and the elderly. They neglect to mention the dead dogs, men hissing and shouting at gringas, and beggars searching for wares, all illuminated by that relentless sunlight.