Time without exposure is the enemy of language acquistion and retention (Voelz 2004).
The elf tiptoes his way through the door of my summer cottage and with a bizarre smile, he asks me why humans fall in love. I cleverly deflect his question by asking him why elves fall in love. He then shares a vividly breath-taking story about penguin-sliding across icy fields and magical, autumn strolls through Mermaid Island.
He asks me again, why humans fall in love. So for the remainder of the night I read him a story about a woman who misplaced her heart and the unfortunate man who spent a lifetime in search for it. In the end, his trouble availed to nothing as their love was no place to be found.
The elf's ears twitch and a puzzled look wraps across his face. He takes a minute to think, and then reminds me that the story didn't quite satisfy his question. I take a deep breath and quickly glance away from him, saying "Honestly...shit. I really don't know."
Nagendra 2007
Torrent: Heima - A Film By Sigur Ros
Tagline: "Smiling, spinning in circles, holding hands, the world is a blur, except when you're standing."
- Γαλενω Γαλισια
- My true home is here in Simancas where Pyrenees joy bursts into air like wind carries Spain's oceanic light. In this place the moon wolf cries at nightfall in a voice of hunger. The sky moves like weeping blankets of folding white snow. Rain falls in silver thread and feeds our valley of farmland and silent homes with smile. Here is where the conquistador spirit is born, set free from the edge of shore, and like a woman's sunlit beauty, is captured and carried away by the warm ebb and flow of fragrant word.
