The Hammock

Where: Solterreno, Spain
When: April 2011

I spent an awful lot of time in this hammock that week. I spent a full day in it just watching my laundry dry: listening to the birds, waiting for the wind to knock a shirt or a sock off, getting up, putting it back on, waiting for the sun to shift across the sky a bit more, getting up, adjusting the drying rack. I'm not sure what it is about the place that I can spend a full day with no more entertainment than the laundry and the birds, never feeling a flicker of impatience or boredom, while here in the city, surrounded by bustling activity, I get frustrated, bored, and restless on a regular basis.