Freedom unfolding

How do I spend these days of freedom you may ask? How does it feel like to know you have months of leisure and enjoyment ahead of you after all the hard schoolwork is done? Well, here's the truth: it feels kind of weird. I'm still hovering in the in-between time, waiting for that final exam to be over. Working at the ice-cream parlour (awesome job for someone who loves food as much as I do), going horse-riding and swimming. Days are long and lazy, but I think I do not yet fully understand the hugeness of this freedom. It's like somebody hands you a voucher that says: just like this, I will give you five months for you to spend just like you would want.

So, right now, I'm still wrapping my head around the whole prospect of unlimited free time for almost half a year. Getting up when I feel like it. Reading. Writing. Just doing all the things I missed out on in the last six months of studying and agonosing over final exams.

That's how I feel at the moment, like a horse galloping. So here's a little poem about freedom unfolding in front of me:

Freedom unfolding,
thundering hooves, bounding ahead -
I spin in my rowboat,
blue skies above. 
Circling, circling,
am I flying?
am I drowning?

Freedom unfolding,
dancing, singing, on the horizon,
beckoning me, spinning around.
What am I now?
A bird, a horse, a spirit even?

Freedom unfolding,
nosing me gently:
"Hi, I'm freedom,
I'm here, I'm real,
I'm staying with you for a while."
Like a present before me,
scared to unwrap it.

The part about the rowboat is actually true. That's how I spent my free day yesterday. On a lake, in a rowboat, lying on my back and being spun around by the wind in a circle. The world seems so huge, you can actually see it's round. I never knew clouds could look so different from one another. Some look like snow, others like icebergs and some look like dots of frosting. Beautiful. I can't take pictures of these great moments, you just need to imagine them. Because the more time you take taking pictures, that's time lost you could be spending looking at it.

Oh, and I do enjoy spending time around horses. Most of my mornings are passed in the stables, grooming, exercising and going out for a little hack. It's heaven. 

Some nice baking coming up soon!

Love, x