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Gaining Some Perspective
Reconnecting with your surroundings can fill you with unexpected peace and new ideas.
It’s a sunny day, but the tree-lined streets of the fine neighborhood of Belgrano keep a part of the light out. There’s something characteristic of this neighborhood in them. It’s that kind of old money, that invites you in with its beauty, while advising you it’ll never share all its secrets with you.
On a calm, crisp Sunday morning like this, it’s easy to rest my eyes on the city surrounding me. Not worry about dodging other people, not stay so alert to all the dangers surrounding a woman in a big city. I can even lower the mask covering my face for a couple of blocks and allow the sunshine to reach my skin for a minute.
This is the kind of barrio where ladies go for afternoon coffees in Lululemons and impossibly manicured nails, where young men play rugby and young women have tennis teachers. But it’s also a place where your verdulero and carnicero still know you by name, neighbors say hi, and you feel safe and protected.
It’s a bubble, for sure. Big colonial-era houses that used to be the summer homes of rich families escaping the hustle and bustle of the city to the countryside, now nestled between 20-story buildings with tennis courts and pools housing new money, single…
