There's a summer dress that I love very much! It's white, but it can also have shades of purple or pink. A little dress that carries me back to childhood, reminding me of the joy and freedom from the time when I ran nimbly through the generous dust at the end of the vineyard, where I used to go with my mother, or of the field I had to cross in the summer to reach our dear river and the enchanting forest...
On an ordinary summer day, while running errands in the city, I spotted the little dress I had passed by so many times without noticing. The Swallow-dress flower, a bloom I had overlooked for many years. Happy, I bent down, plucked a little flower, looked at it with affection, smelled it... and already my soul was back in childhood, free and happy! It was a great discovery to find out that this flower is fragrant and smells like... a field!
Now, often on my way through the city, I pick a little swallow-dress flower, admire its delicacy, and inhale its heavenly scent. What can the wonderful experiences of childhood be other than heavenly experiences? Back then, we were pure in spirit and saw everything around us as beautiful!
Daily I practice joy exercises. And true joy means flying to the sky! Often, I only need a little 'dress' to lift my soul. The little dress that makes me fly to the sky... The Swallow-dress flower!
Iulia Enache