The wild figs come before you expect them. Late May, early June the air still carrying the last of the spring cool in the mornings, the afternoons already warm enough to mean it. The tree knows before the calendar does. It always has...
No agenda. No rush. Just grass under his boots, poppies burning red at the edges and two wild horses who didn't ask him to come but didn't ask him to leave either...
Between the quiet of yesterday and the weight of tomorrow, there is this a boy watching hands that have always known what to do. He is not helping yet. He is collecting something he doesn't have a word for. Something that will only surface years from now, in a field of his own. for the day to pass through without him noticing...
There are places where childhood feels softer. Where the light falls gently on the trees, where the earth still remembers the rain, and small footsteps wander without hurry. Somewhere between the olive trees and the old farmhouse...
The wild figs come before you expect them. Late May, early June the air still carrying the last of the spring cool in the mornings, the afternoons already warm enough to mean it. The tree knows before the calendar does. It always has...