beauty

I have to keep this short because I am going out with some friends tonight, so, as usual I am forgoing all of the things that I have been meaning to write about all day (but I was too busy sleeping in and getting my cartilage pierced again). There was a moment today that I really wanted to write about though, which I would like to dedicate to my mamacita, who, in one of the most touching and wonderful emails I've ever gotten, reminded me that spending time in nature helps to heal emotional pain, which I've been struggling with a lot lately.

Unfortunately, it has been entirely too cold to spend significant amounts of time outside, but while I was walking to the metro today, I had a moment of peace. Often, when going to this particular metro stop, I take the tram because it's faster and easier, but on the weekend the wait between trams is pretty long, and I didn't feel like waiting, so I decided to walk. I have to cross the Rhône river to get to the metro, and I love crossing the bridge because you get a really nice view of the river and the buildings along the quais. Today, what with the weather being crappy, it looked very hard and kind of industrial, which was accentuated by construction. At first, my thought was, ugh...but I stopped to look up the river and realized that it was really beautiful. There are trees all along either side of the river, and they are all a really gorgeous amber fall color, and the whole thing was like the perfect fall/almost winter day. It was almost like looking at a sepia-toned photograph because of the colors of the trees, and because everything was sort of washed out because there wasn't any sunlight (only the light filtering through LOTS of clouds.

Silly me, I forgot to charge my camera, so I couldn't take a picture. Although I kind of doubt I could have captured the moment because a lot of the beauty was in my realization that, if you just look for it, the beauty--natural beauty--is there, even in the middle of the city. It was a very "American Beauty" sort of moment.

Anyway, I'm off. Just needed to write that.

Bisous.