Galway City was alive today!
Hip hip hooray!
There was absolute scenes on the streets of Galway City today with people making the cutest looks around their nearest vicinity to their fellow gentlemen and ladies (and everything in between ;-)), and the architecture and nature of the area.
People just wanted to absorb all the good vibes of Thursday. The vibes that only Thursday knows how to have when it is the day that comes before Friday.
The atmosphere filled with hope started off with the guy who maintains my housing estate power washing the paths. So even the concrete ground was giving itself a good old self care cleanse.
Thank you estate maintainer.
A few thousand steps later, Spanish Arch was full of people using the natural congregation allowed by the shape of the area to it’s potential.
Walking, cycling, sitting on steps, standing at the edges. Just having a good old look around.
If looking around was a sport included on the Olympics schedule, I would say the people would be awarded a silver if not a gold medal.
The activity that lay within this sport seemed to be that the people were using their eyes to really make the immediate evirons settle whatever inner turmoil or daily struggle was going in their heads, and hearts.
It was determined mindfulness that felt like a Thursday on any old late November afternoon in the history of Galway City.
The super extroverted element was alive and kicking too with people outside Gourmet Tart in The Westend enjoying a hot cuppa and chats, and again really looking around them like their lives depended on it.
Even the waves of the Corrib were dancing. And the fairy lights on Bridge Street were twinkling as hard as they could against the soon-to-be setting sun in the lightly clouded sky.
The facelift being afforded to the paths in and around on Dominic Street Lower and Mary Street, is a big massive communcation to the citizens that we’re allowed have nice things.
And on those very streets- and back to The Latin Quarter, the buildings had been given a lovely lick of paint or a newly designed exterior Mary Portas, arguably the best high street-slash-kindness economy guru on the planet, would only be too proud of.
Coming back home and finishing a takeaway flat white with a looser swagger than normal. And trotting past the power hose. Even for a brief moment, it really felt from all that was on view in the city: things were looking up.