Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Black and White »

They say that until the fortieth day after a person’s death, their soul wanders among us—the living. Spiritually, a person is with us for only 40 days, and after that they fly away forever to somewhere unknown. The time has come in my life when losses and farewells began to happen more often. Each passing year is marked by several goodbyes. There is a connection between losing loved ones and returning to nature. It is as if we receive the greatest comfort precisely from nature. Sorrow makes you return to memories of when you were a child, playing for whole days by the lake, in the forest, in the meadows. It pushes you to go back to the small community you belonged to, far from the city. In the silence of nature you feel the dead closer and can speak with them. I often wander in my father’s small village and talk to him, tell him things.