WEBVTT 00:00:00.970 --> 00:00:07.509 My dancing heart. Bonjour Paris. Can I think 00:00:07.509 --> 00:00:13.310 while dancing? I think not. I think with my heart 00:00:13.310 --> 00:00:17.050 and my heart is dancing. You are me and I am 00:00:17.050 --> 00:00:21.129 with you. My heart is dancing and ideas start 00:00:21.129 --> 00:00:26.269 pouring in. Yes, even without the rain, the English 00:00:26.269 --> 00:00:29.370 rain that seems so far in the distance now that 00:00:29.370 --> 00:00:32.390 I have laid my eyes on the Seine again this morning. 00:00:33.549 --> 00:00:37.289 They appear before me like images from a movie, 00:00:37.409 --> 00:00:41.350 like things that have happened for me, and they 00:00:41.350 --> 00:00:44.369 are as real as the tears that touch my smiling 00:00:44.369 --> 00:00:51.070 lips that I can taste it. Ah, to be free! Ah, 00:00:51.210 --> 00:00:56.560 to be uncompromisingly oneself! What a blissful curse 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:01.159 it may seem to be! To walk one's solitary miles 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:05.260 and smile at ordinary gulls flying by, for there 00:01:05.260 --> 00:01:09.140 is nothing ordinary about gulls flying by while 00:01:09.140 --> 00:01:12.760 you're walking your solitary miles, let alone 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:17.299 by the Seine. I smile when something makes me 00:01:17.299 --> 00:01:20.140 cry, for there is nothing ordinary about being 00:01:20.140 --> 00:01:27.180 touched, by something, by anything at all. I don't 00:01:27.180 --> 00:01:30.819 want to seek anymore, Paris. I don't want to seek 00:01:30.819 --> 00:01:34.560 you, or myself, or where you and myself come from. 00:01:35.219 --> 00:01:40.420 I just want to be -- the true you, my true self, 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:45.900 the truth. You'd say I'm losing my mind, Paris, 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.920 talking this way. But my mind has to melt to 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.450 flow with my heart, which has been melting every 00:01:53.450 --> 00:01:56.890 hard decision presented before my eyes, that 00:01:56.890 --> 00:02:01.310 my eyes become watery, for more images like in 00:02:01.310 --> 00:02:04.909 a movie come to me as my heart is dancing where 00:02:04.909 --> 00:02:10.169 life is flowing. That I think with my heart, 00:02:10.650 --> 00:02:15.349 can I think while my heart is dancing? I think 00:02:15.349 --> 00:02:19.990 not. I spent almost a week with my pier neighbour 00:02:19.990 --> 00:02:23.449 in Chelsea on his charmingly rustic barge without 00:02:23.449 --> 00:02:26.389 central heating -- we're working on it -- but with 00:02:26.389 --> 00:02:29.430 hot water supply and endless passionate conversations 00:02:29.430 --> 00:02:33.189 over hot meals we cooked for each other. Last 00:02:33.189 --> 00:02:36.050 night, my friends Sandy and Julien in Nation welcomed 00:02:36.050 --> 00:02:39.110 me back into their warm family home with delicious 00:02:39.110 --> 00:02:43.550 soup -- I had two helpings: one for my tummy, one 00:02:43.550 --> 00:02:47.099 for my soul. I ran two miles this morning and 00:02:47.099 --> 00:02:49.939 walked a little along the Seine, spying Notre 00:02:49.939 --> 00:02:53.520 -Dame in the distance with giddiness in my body 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.340 before picking up mini -viennoiseries from the local 00:02:57.340 --> 00:03:02.979 boulangerie. I am now back in bed, sitting here 00:03:02.979 --> 00:03:08.500 not feeling blue, spilling my heart to you: Paris, 00:03:08.620 --> 00:03:14.159 Paris, que je m 'en fous! For ah to feel loved! 00:03:15.469 --> 00:03:19.650 Ah, to feel abundant and free! To constantly 00:03:19.650 --> 00:03:22.169 be in the right place at the right time is the 00:03:22.169 --> 00:03:27.310 only way to be. It's the only way to see when 00:03:27.310 --> 00:03:31.430 one sees with one's heart, with one's dancing 00:03:31.430 --> 00:03:37.789 heart at that. The shadow of the balcony flowers 00:03:37.789 --> 00:03:41.830 on the white curtains have disappeared. The day 00:03:41.830 --> 00:03:45.349 is getting higher. And it is soon time to get 00:03:45.349 --> 00:03:48.349 ready and lunch with my Katie and break her heart 00:03:48.349 --> 00:03:51.430 a little when I tell her I have now made up my 00:03:51.430 --> 00:03:54.270 mind that I won't be going to Barcelona with 00:03:54.270 --> 00:03:59.050 her this week. But she'll understand. She and 00:03:59.050 --> 00:04:02.169 my dear friend Fabiola in the warmer part of 00:04:02.169 --> 00:04:05.289 the continent will understand. I have a momentum 00:04:05.289 --> 00:04:09.310 going with something I'm currently writing, and 00:04:09.310 --> 00:04:11.849 I am in the right place at the right time to 00:04:11.849 --> 00:04:15.990 keep it going. Their understanding shall mend 00:04:15.990 --> 00:04:19.089 their hearts, and their love shall make their 00:04:19.089 --> 00:04:24.389 hearts dance, like mine. I'm loving you, Paris. 00:04:25.230 --> 00:04:29.949 The words are flying, assembling themselves around 00:04:29.949 --> 00:04:34.290 me. The scenes are directing themselves for me. 00:04:34.750 --> 00:04:41.290 Things are happening for me. The feelings are beautifully 00:04:41.290 --> 00:04:46.709 flowing as my heart is dancing. Ah, to receive! 00:04:47.810 --> 00:04:53.449 Ah, to allow! Can my heart think while dancing? 00:04:54.990 --> 00:05:02.029 Does it need to? Paris, le 8 février 2026. 00:05:02.810 --> 00:05:03.970 Je t 'embrasse !