Feeling blue…

Today a post from a JenY’s (GenY) daughter living in London:

There is something so amazing about being underwater.  You feel so light all noise is blocked out in a way that its almost dangerous and your fantasy of being a mermaid, a pearl diver or even an Olympic swimmer are allowed to come to the surface so to speak.

I have always loved the water.  I started swimming at 5 (even if my Mum might disagree with this).  I remember getting free of those bloody floaties was the best feeling.  Having a pool growing up and living so close to the sea is something I may have taken for granted and only now that I have lived in a concrete jungle for a few years do I realise how lovely and lucky it was.

Some of my most vivid memories are watery.  My Dad TRYING to teach me to surf, almost ‘drowning’ at 4 and having my Mum jump in fully clothed after me, snorkeling in the bath, swimming with our massive (Newfoundland) water rescue dog, teaching my brother to swim, re-enacting a perfume ad with my cousin where they jump off a cliff into the sea and, of course, skinny dipping!

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Film is very important to me.  Looking at some of my favourite scenes in film I notice that a lot of them take place in water (not to get all Jacques Cousteau on you) but they really do stick in my mind.

Jaws – 1 & 2, The Graduate, The Life Aquatic, Rushmore (anything by Wes Anderson), The Blue Lagoon, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Romeo and Juliet, Lost in Translation, The Big Blue, In God’s Hands, The Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo, Closer, Free Willy, The Sea Inside, High Tide, Whale Rider, Big Wednesday, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea…

The Characters in these Films are either trying to hide, relieve pain, or are truly just fascinated.

To me WATER reminds me of home.

And on that note here is a great clip from Sade - ”No Ordinary Love”

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