Beneath what I try to see

is all I need

This Day, 2011

Our Roman HoliDAY!

On the fast train from Naples to Rome

 On top of a sightseeing bus

 By foot, with Elizabeth as our guide

(Eat, Pray, Love)

 In churches

In parks and by fountains

 And back again
We did it...Rome-in-a-Day!

Oh, and we saw this!

Old Friends

On a new trip!

What We Bring Along

A river doesn't hold all the water that passes through it.

In our journey through time, we all struggle constantly with what to bring along and what to leave behind. It feels so hard to throw anything away, but if we don't, we will drown underneath a weight of our own making.

The river is a good model. It doesn't own the water than rushes by, yet it couldn't be in more intimate relationship to it, as the force of what moves through shapes it. It is the same with everything we love. In truth, there is no point to holding on to the deepest things that matter, for they have already shaped us.

The purpose of sentiment, then, is to release the powerful feelings that sleep in us. Sometimes books and cards and shells and dried flowers do this. But often we carry more than we need, seldom trusting that what these small treasures represent is already living with in us. Often the most useful gift we can give ourselves is to lay our lies open like a river.

Mark Nepo ~ The Book of Awakening

This Day, 2011

Aaaah...just chilling at Bella Villa Rosa

Enjoying another fabulous meal,

this time chicken cooked by General John

in his Big Green Egg

 Then, our last night on the roof...

gets absolutely no better

than this!

Too cool! Thanks, K!

This Day, 2011

Pozzuilio by Day

 Villa Elvira by Nite