El Gran Bilbao

It's pretty amazing to see how many people out there in all corners of the world

are constantly creating and taking on new and really cool initiatives.

Inspiring.

The other day, I got to learn about a cool project "Gastrologging"

initiated, nada y mas y nada menos que by two brothers from the Basque Country,
aka HOME SWEET HOME.

The project is pretty much

a compilation of all those things

that I live for,

but if I had to put it in a few words, 

it's a visual log of

surfing and gastronomy,
and what best scenario

than the Basque lands
with its sea, its food and its people.

The project includes 6 short movies
covering the Basque Bay.

To not make the entry extremely long
I will just share one of these chapters

for its sentimental value.

"El Gran Bilbao"
my home.

Even my little beach village

Algorta (Getxo)
is on it.

 

Muxuak!

Sil

"The meaning of life is that it stops" -- Franz Kafka

This post is for those too many out there 

- you know better than no one who you are -

who are going through tough times, excessive skepticism, 

and existential crisis.

I believe that eventually,
the dots do connect.

So,
Please:

Continue to breathe.

Don't give up. 

Re-invent yourself.

And do not forget that

You are not alone.


Love,

Sil

"Jump from the book,
you're not obliged to swallow anything that you despise"

V-Day

Noe asked me to do something about my absence

and clean the dust that the blog has been accumulating due to its lack of use.

My apologies. 

The thing is that in a short period of time,

I've been forced to generate

a decent amount of new ideas for other projects

and all in all, my brain feels squeezed.

In light of V-Day: Valentines' Day,

I will be traditional and feed that sentimental and romantic side

that exits in all of us,

and share a few words from F. Scott Fitzgerald,

who always keeps me wondering:

"I'm not sentimental - I'm as romantic as you are.

The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks

things will last - the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't."

I will also feed that revolutionary and nonconformist side

that also exists in all of us,

and talk about a different meaning of the V-Day
(Victory, Valentine and Vagina Day).

Yes, you read correctly: V a g i n a.

You can read more about this V-Day in its web site

but basically, 

it is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.

On Feb. 14th, 2012, they launched a major campaign to raise awareness on the issue:

ONE BILLION RISING.

The campaign ends TODAY.

TODAY, women and men all over the world are celebrating
and adding a new meaning to the V-Day

and are raising their voices and their hands to end gender-based violence worldwide.

Experience LIVE the rising worldwide in: http://onebillionrising.org/

It's definitely an inspiring way to celebrate V-day.

Love

brings pain

but also happiness.

Let's not close our hearts to it.

Un beso,

ME

"Very YOU," as Luisen would say

Is my post for today

Pretty, right?

Not sad

Not dramatic

Not nostalgic

Just right.