My Heaven on Earth
Our summer villa is the most wonderful place I know. Maybe the world has many more impossible views to offer, but my heart is only here and always will be.
The villa is my home, my only place, even 3000km away from me… Especially, 3000km away from me. The villa is the place I know from my first memories. Here is my family, our traditions. Here is the symbol of our primary human needs – shelter and love. Here is my childhood.
It doesn’t matter how big it is, what it looks like, where it is… It has sheltered countless of people, celebrated countless birthdays, Easters and St. George’s days, seen countless smiles and dried countless tears. It has cooked for countless hungry tummies and prepared countless jars for the winters to come.
The villa has grown roses and oleanders, tulips, bamboo and boxwood, lavender and sunflowers, carrots, garlic and parsley, cherries and sour cherries, apples, pears, jujube and raspberries, walnuts, grapes, tomatoes, tomatoes and tomatoes…
The villa has seen generations of children, cats, dogs, swallows and bugs. It has inspired creators from all art forms. It has helped countless children be children: to play hide and seek late at night, to have pillow fights on their beds, to play with the hose in the garden, to tell stupid jokes hidden in the corners and to steal green plumbs… Oh, plumbs also grow in the villa.
The terrace has prepared many gatherings for coffee, lunch or dinner parties. It has seen countless ships and boats, sunsets and sunrises; every colour of the rainbow, every shade of the fog, every flower of the oleanders or the Albizia… It has ensured the presence of a frog choir for many guests and sea experiences for everyone: small or big.
The villa is not like it was in the beginning. It has shared its life with its family, with known and unknown friends has learned so much from them and us. Now it is completely different, soaking in the knowledge and needs of its family and also gone through some physical changes. But it is my home, my family, where all life lessons live.
I am immeasurably happy to all that have created this Heaven on Earth for me – this home, this family. I hope that one day my children will see and feel what I am seeing and feeling every time I go back (even in my thoughts)!
Our summer villa is the most wonderful place I know. Maybe the world has many more impossible views to offer, but my heart is only here and always will be.
Stay Vivid,
Vassya
One of the inspired artists is our lovely artists Kalina Toneva:
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