Shannon

I am taking a break from helping clean up around here for this thing tomorrow, that I will tell you about later. This morning I swept and washed down the courtyard. Let me tell you: lizard tails are hard to sweep up. They just sort of roll around and don’t want to get into the […]

Today we went out for lunch, made a bit of an occasion of it, with a nice bottle of wine and everything. It only took three hours. 🙂 The place we went was very “typical,” as Auntie says, which means it’s traditional, and everything is homemade, and there are no menus, and you eat a

So I went around taking a few photos. Cause that’s what tourists do, right? The door to Auntie’s pantry One of Auntie’s paintings. It’s from a photo of our family from 1954. My mom is the dark-haired girl with bangs on the left; Auntie is blonde and on the right. The parents are (of course)

Okay, yoga in Italian is weird.

We had a quieter day yesterday. I’d slept the night straight through, hooray! We had an aperitivo with the neighbor, I wrote a few blog posts (you may have noticed), and Auntie and I went swimming in the afternoon. Oh god that felt good. I wished I’d brought my goggles and earplugs, but oh well!

Yesterday we went to Padova to see my other cousin–Auntie’s younger son. It’s about a two-hour drive from here, or it would have been if we hadn’t been delayed for a Fiat 500 rally. An officious-looking man held us at a major traffic circle for like 15 minutes. I got to hear some genuine Driving

The Fire Ritual Before I left home, Auntie wrote me and said that one of her good friends invited us to a fire ritual to celebrate Equinox on Saturday night. Auntie has been to rituals at this friend’s place many times before—cleansing, purity, creativity, letting go; in addition to just regular parties and the like—and

Well I’ve been too busy having the vacation to come here and tell you about the vacation. 🙂 Which is how it’s supposed to be, right? But we’re planning on a quieter day tomorrow, Auntie and me, cause we’ve kind of worn ourselves out, these past few days. I did sleep well last night, thank

Am ded. Going sleeps now. Much to tell, but, going sleeps now. God I hope.

Well, I found my jetlag. I guess it took a later flight than I did, but it showed up last night at bedtime. I lay in bed from midnight till 6am, Not Sleeping. Read a bit, but mostly just….didn’t sleep. :/ Woke again at 9, puffy-eyed and bleary. Coffee helps, sort of. But later? Oh