This Summer has been so terrible so far weather-wise that I’m thinking more and more about a programme I listened to on Radio 4 last month (Does Happiness Write White?), which was looking at how happiness is an under-represented emotion in modern literature. During the course of the programme they mentioned that happiness is often associated in literature with a sense of impermanence.
If a terrible Summer teaches you anything, it is to ‘make hay while the sun shines’: grab the opportunity to get out and enjoy yourself while the fleeting moment of happiness is there in the break in the clouds.
We drove to Stechlinsee today in a hastily rented car and spent an afternoon and evening of happiness before the waitress in the restaurant in Neuglobsow told us that the weather will change tomorrow and start raining again. On to Lübeck in the morning after a stay in the quietest place I’ve been to in a while – Burow.