Burda, Buddha and Bucharest

Yesterday I have brought up to life a very old hobby of mine, from about 25 years ago... I have tailored and quilted a skirt and a shirt, mainly because my daughter, Maria, had installed a tailor’s dummy just in the middle of our house and I was trying to remember how to cut and how a to apply a pattern (from an old Burda magazine - true "gold" in those times). But as I have lost my teen girl patience, I gave up canons and I cut on my own inspiration and reduced all to minimum. Now I am proud to have tailored for myself an orange prêt-a-porter skirt with variable shape and form and a shirt whose model depends on how I decide to wear it, as it’s not so clear... (for the moment, I can arrange it in 6 different ways)

I've had a lot of fun, my main goal was to be efficient rather than creative, I wished to finish the same day what I've started... it looks a bit loose, but I am comfortable with the idea that this would be very appropriate for the next escape to an Eco village, where jeans are not the best and inspired solution.

Yesterday I have packed everything, with a smile, because the skirt looks just like one of the colored cloths of the Buddhist monks!

Wearing something like this in Bucharest? No way!
But... never say never! This morning Maria comes to me and says I should - at all costs - wear that Buddha-inspired skirt because we are going to a place I would love... Really? In Bucharest?

I took the hint; I am an obedient mother...

My advice is that you should listen to your children, please stop reading now and go to Street Delivery, QUICKLY!!!! Between Carturesti and Gradina Icoanei, for a few days you can find a real oasis of wonderful ideas, beautiful smiling people, music, art and photo, architecture and "out of the box" thinking, a fair that kept me happily fainted for a day, without feeling how time flew!

Urban gardens, art and experimental workshops, books and Rosia Montana... Ecological houses, revolutionary messages (in "silk", obviously), events, concerts, lots of kids and educated ageless people, you wouldn’t believe all this until you've seen them! All Universities are present; this is not a commercial fair.

A true surprise for me was to discover, right in the middle of the park, my favorite subject - The World in Transition! While I was approaching the place, it seemed unbelievable for me... reading... that!??? I’ve lived to see with my own eyes such this happening in the middle of Bucharest? This means that we are on the right path!

Romania in Transition (intranzitie.org) was there, with their entire agenda full of wide dear subjects, from Permaculture to own currency, Eco villages, solar energy, nature, animals... lying on a blanket on the grass, seeming pretty relaxed, some young people with a clear look in their eyes hold me to chunk from their new home made bread and invite us to join them at the table, that was right before introducing myself. There was no need for more, for me to understand that we have A LOT to talk about...

They didn’t start their project for a long time, just for a few months, but it is wonderful that things like these have started happening already, people are researching... we will meet again for sure, I am very pleased with this meeting, I'm still having the smile on my face! I have leaved the place with the feeling that I could have spend here my whole day to enjoy the special energy of our meeting...

I’ve spent seven hours in the park and I've hardly had a bird's eye view... projects for "A Different Bucharest", natural gardens, various vintage objects, art, hand made, people lobbying for daring impressive causes, you could see these dreams coming to life only by looking into those people's eyes... This is a World me and I'm sure that you too, would like to live in, a World same time beautiful and decent and clean...

It will be open tonight and all day tomorrow! I will also be there tomorrow, I hope! I'm inviting you, too!

P.S. I felt perfectly fit into the atmosphere with my new skirt, and on top of all that last evening I felt like curling my hair, just like I was doing in the Eco village! Men probably will not understand the satisfaction of having followed my intuition to do this, too...

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