Sleepless in Rio

Sleeping in Rio is hard. Not because you cant do it but beacues the weather is fantastic all day and night and you just dont feel like going to bed because you could loose some of the charm of the city by night and i dont mean the nightlife. I end up sitting on the computer till late night and then I go out to my outdoor garden and take a first breath of thick warm air that calm my lungs and says come out come out. And so i do and that in the wee hours of the morning. Today and a couple oof nights before I went out at 5.30 and for thirty minutes before it happened I could practiacally smell the sunrise. At this time everything and everyone, well mostly everyone, is asleep so the city is quiet and its easy to attune your undistracted senses to smells and colors. Everyone has plants in their balconies so despite lot of concrete that created Leblon and Ipanema beach the feeling is often garden-like. Sunrise today was completely forgettable - simply so perfect like on many other days. Burning red, almost purple and flat as a large coin disc rises on the side of Ipanema beach from behind the buildings affording everyone at the beach 5 meter long shadows and illuminating the dramatic mountain at the head of the beach to sweet orange hue. In minutes ocean that was just completely quiet starts murking its morning song and with every repeating chorus of waver grows stronger and stronger. Just like the BWV 544 Bach's Prelude and Fuge which culminates in full swing loud waver rolling over your feet for the first time today and putting your body in a pleasant shiver. Water is warm, 34 degrees outside. Sand is fine and cleaned during every night by the city cervices. Paradise in many respects. And who would want to sleep in paradise at all???