...the day I stayed without my shoe...

A week has passed since that event, which I will tell you about in this post. It is not a very long period of time, just a few days. If I wanted to increase the number and stay true to the time, I could express a week in 168 hours. Or, even better, let's use minutes as a unit and start this writing from the beginning...?

OK.

So, 10080 minutes have passed since that afternoon I am going to explain to you very soon. The first day of an event you already could read about here and see the market part of it here. As you can guess, these gatherings don't happen that often, it's not an everyday experience for this place. Although we have a number of different fairs, street markets, live music events, concerts, and similar, this eco-style fair is held just once a year. That is why I was so excited about it (and still I am - in case you didn't notice haha) so I went both days to attend it. Well, just in the afternoons. Now, in this post, a small glimpse of the second day (afternoon) is coming to our little corner, to bring some vibes 🌟

After the first afternoon, where Swing music (Gatsby band), Jamaican, and African music had the lead, alongside a handpan concert (that I missed) and organic trance music (that I also missed, but was said that it was great - now I am sorry that I didn't stay longer...), so after that, we had a colourful music offer for the second day too. A vibrational concert (432 Hz music), a gospel music workshop and later a concert of the same gospel group. Then a band called Ensalada Huertana, followed by a reggae thing (I don't know the name of those guys although they are a local group and said their name) and medicine music.

I found in my closet a long denim dress with straps and matched it with light blue (actually turquoise) flat leather shoes I have had already for years. A very thin cardigan on top of the dress, and a small backpack on my back and I was ready to go. I left Mr Mipiano at home as it is not his cup of tea and headed to my solo afternoon adventure. And what waited for me...? Happy-vibed, colourfully dressed people who were already in the mood to swing to the calm music. Maybe I needed some time to unfreeze myself, but it didn't take a lot of time.

When this weird group of people took the scene, with the same weird name for the band - Ensalada huertana (Garden Salad) I got closer and took a seat in one of the plastic chairs there were around. They were left there to those who wanted to listen to the concerts from close, and the rest of the people were listening to the performances on foot or sitting on the grass. Just a few first songs that I was there in the first row, in a calm, non-moving posture, and exactly from those first songs I have video footage, that is what you could see if you decide to watch the video. The vibed music called for movement though. So that's how happened that I stood up, and went back to those people that already had a different approach. They were having a great time, enjoying the mini-concert while dancing. I didn't know anyone, but it was not important as I didn't feel like a stranger.

Also, maybe this music is not the genre I would listen to it every day. But again, it was not important. But the moment was. Why not live it, take what is offered? Why not do something you don't have a chance to do every day? The very next day I would anyway be again in the classroom and make sure the rules are listened to hahaha. Why not dance once without rules?

The plastic chairs that were in the front of the scene disappeared in one moment, put by sides by all these dancing hands and feet that wanted to come closer to the musicians and to that artist that was creating a painting while they were playing and singing. He had his artistic moment to make something on that canvas while the performance lasted. He also moved and painted. In the beginning, I thought it will be just some random colours put on the canvas. Song by song, and there were more lines, colours and slowly I saw a woman there. Her arms and long hair. A circle "something" between her arms. Maybe it would be the planet Earth? Or her child? Later, when the performance was over I saw it was a vase with flowers.

Enjoying those spontaneous moments, and dancing with people I just met there, the Universe probably decided to make me even closer to that mindset. The sole of my right shoe broke in one moment. It split in half. That was funny as it happened there... but what I saw is that many other fellow dancers were barefoot!!! Yes, I had to be barefoot also! I took my shoes off, left them in one corner, hugged the girl that was by me and we danced together. (Am I really writing this down? You can laugh and all, well... your choice hahaha)

It went on for more than an hour, but the Garden Salad band had to be taken away from the menu. (btw, the Spanish-speaking readers, if any will come and listen to the video will understand through the lyrics of the songs how they relate to this eco-event). They had to pack their stuff and a small intermezzo is what came. I said goodbye to the peeps that were around and I took a walk around waiting for the next performances. Some new people came, and reggae music started to sound. That group I didn't understand the name when they were introducing themselves, but I do know they are a local group. In the photo just one of the guys while he was preparing the equipment.

Fewer people stayed there and this time I was just a reserved listener and calm dancer. At one moment I felt it was a bit boring, maybe the company was not to my liking either and my broken shoe needed to be replaced. I counted on the last performance, the medicinal music. Went quickly home, got another pair of footwear and went back. However, I didn't get more fun that day, as the last performance was cancelled. Bad luck I guess? Or just the needed calm that had to come, so as to be able to sleep that night. I will take the second option, the positive side to be picked always :))

For those who decide to watch the video, a small disclaimer: the sound is not the best, that is what my phone got being that close to the speakers. Also in the beginning there is a bit of sound distortion, but try not to pay attention to it :D It serves to give a tiny glimpse of the afternoon/evening when I stayed without my shoe and to leave a simple message: vibra alto!