It was when a worst nightmare came true that she realised life was too short (and too precious), for compromise, prompting her to stop teaching and start writing. She knows, like no other writer, how to illuminate the intimate, daily, domestic lives of ordinary women and their families. Exciting and elegant, her writing is all of these things, and a …
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SAN FELIPE – Poetry by Lee Anne Sittler Don’t watch the blooms make love, the visual screams they make, incongruous, dissonant, cantankerous spirits cascading into cloud wisps, re-forming around MarÃa trapped in her chapel. MarÃa, don’t watch too closely, in summer, the children swimming in the river; the white houses lapping over the river’s edge like abandoned kittens. Don’t watch …
Read More »WHERE YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR LUCKY ISLAND – Archipelago of the Canaries / Spain: in any season, for the reason that you prefer
Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …
Read More »EMOTIONS OF STONE – Extremadura / Spain: the emotions of the stone, visiting Caceres, Alcantara and Coria
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »DREAMING OF ANDALUCIA – Antequera / Sierra de Torcal: the capacity limits of the imagination
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »HIGH TOWERS OF SAN GIMINIANO – Italy / Tuscany: obligatory stage to feel Middle Ages
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »AT HER FEET, A DOCILE DOGGIE – Lucca / Italy: A market over the amphitheater, marble cherubs and a dog next to Ilaria
Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …
Read More »CHIANTI’S TOUR – Tuscany / Italy: wineyards, hills and artistic sights
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »SIENA’S PALIO – Waiting for you each year, on July 2nd and August 16th, from 1283
Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …
Read More »ITALIAN POETRY LIBRARY / TUSCANY
For the Italian language, the text that is considered as the first written document no longer in Latin but in the vernacular (960-963), is represented by the witnesses formulas relating to the ownership of lands claimed by the abbey of Montecassino. If there is a land of choice of literature, this is undoubtedly Tuscany, where the Italian language is developed, …
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BEYOND THE LIGHTHOUSE – Sicilian painters
SICILIAN SOUNDTRAK
Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …
Read More »THE LEOPARD – Novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was born in Palermo in 1896. He was a boy who liked solitude, who liked to be with more things than with people. That son of an aristocratic family – who had made long journeys in Europe – was a passionate reader of books, and had devoted to fiction the last years of his life. To …
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Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
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