Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

Somewhere Deep: Overcoming The Edge (Part 1)

Somewhere Deep: Overcoming The Edge (Part 1)

All at once, I was bathing in a thermal breeze,

Warming numbness with newness,

Drunk on the swirling color

That still rises from somewhere deep

Flurries of carnal exhaust took the shape of nothing

And the color of everything

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Ognissanti
Home, Italy, Tuscany, Sense of Place, Travel, Writing, Siena andee sorenson Home, Italy, Tuscany, Sense of Place, Travel, Writing, Siena andee sorenson

Ognissanti

I'm not ready for immersion but the feeling of these damp steps beneath me will become a perennial part of my being. I lift heavy hands to mouth thinking only about breaking suddenly into from veganism to vegetarianism. I taste nothing new. The sensation of being relinquished and forgotten here, deep in the fall, will stay with me for years. 

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Dog In a Box
Family, Italy, Travel, Tuscany, Writing, Traveling with Pets stephanie page Family, Italy, Travel, Tuscany, Writing, Traveling with Pets stephanie page

Dog In a Box

Born in Ponsacco, Marty came to live with me in Lucca at the age of two months. Our home is a dreamy and wonderful town…a jewelry-box-of-a-city surrounded by a Renaissance wall which is actually a tree-lined boulevard filled with bicycles and joggers, walkers and lovers and, every morning, the two of us on our daily outing.  Since Lucca is doggie-friendly (he has dinner at Burralli and cappuccino at Tessieri as well as a treat awaiting at the local butcher shop) I have tried my best to take him with me anywhere I go. 

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