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ctfchallenge | all galleries >> Challenge 66: Comfort Zone >> Challenge 66: Exhibition > Hammock
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Mike M

Hammock

Toronto

To feel as if you're suspended in air, the hammock is the essential comfort zone.

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Nugar15-Oct-2004 23:35
I get a terrible back ache when I sleep on a hammock...
ctfchallenge15-Oct-2004 17:41
Canadian summer's pretty short. It must've been great to live in Brazil, the land of the samba:
SAMBA DA BENÇÃO
(Literal translation by Béco Dranoff)
It's better to be happy than sad
Happiness is the best thing there is
Itis like a light in the heart
But to make a samba with beauty
It's needed a bit of sadness
If not the samba can't be made

To make a samba is not like telling a joke
And who makes samba like this is worth nothing
The good samba is a kind of prayer
Because samba is the sadness that sways
And sadness is always hopeful
Of one day not being sad any more

Put a little love in the cadence
And you'll see that in this world nobody wins
The beauty that a samba have
Because samba was born in Bahia
And if today it is white in it's poetry
It is very black in it's heart

The photo was taken at a summer retreat, north of Toronto in the cottage country, where a friend of ours own the quentessential summer cottage. On a Island named after his family, it's the best way to escape the doldrums of urban live.
ctfchallenge15-Oct-2004 05:21
I can definitely relate to this photo. I love sleeping in hammocks... especially the ones made in the Northeast of Brazil... they are so comfortable (no sticks holding it open and made of solid cloth) I lived in Nata, Brasil for 4 years and slept every night in a hammock for 90% of the time. Here in Edmonton it's just too cold to do so. Bummer -Byron