In this post, I return to a little series I call “Walking, Wearing, Listening” in which I share photos of what I wore on a neighbourhood walk along with photos of that neighbourhood — and tell you a bit about a podcast I listened to. In this post, the podcast will take me (and you, should you care to join me) to Naples, even as I walk the streets around me here in Vancouver. Walk with me?
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A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation to my Saturday morning Italian class on my recent trip to Italy. Some readers kindly encouraged me to share the written version here — with an English translation, of course. And a few photos. Click through if you’d like to meet my Inner Italian, Francesca.
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A bookstore in Palermo — I never did get inside, but maybe next time. . . I did, however, do a fair bit of reading last month, in Sicily and once we got back home. I have a few recommendations, for travel or for snuggling in your armchair or swinging gently in your hammock . . .
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One afternoon last month, we stepped from the noisy bustle of Palermo’s Via Maqueda into the quiet hallowed space of a Baroque chapel where I sketched and we drank in the restorative architectural beauty and the deep resonance of centuries of use. Join me for a few minutes in revisiting that well of peace again?
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A Five Things Friday post that somehow turned into Six Things Saturday. And since readers have been curious about my time at a Sketching Workshop in the Sicilian countryside. . . I give you Six Sicilian Things this Saturday. . . A little weekend diversion. Hope you enjoy!
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