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The Daily Cure for me is trying to smell taste touch—really experience— something, each day, that reminds me that I'm alive and, mostly, happy to be here. A small moment that should go a long way, at least in theory.-
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Spring Cleaning #3: The change of season
A small one-week feature on what happens when we clean our houses. What bubbles to the surface. What reveals itself to be true. What our junk says about our current state and next steps. What the season does to us. … Continue reading
Posted in ITALY, THEY SAY
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Spring Cleaning #2: Dusty dreams
A small one-week feature on what happens when we clean our houses. What bubbles to the surface. What reveals itself to be true. What our junk says about our current state and next steps. What the season does to us. … Continue reading
Posted in IN THE HOUSE, ITALY
Tagged arrondissements de Paris, dreams, map of Paris, spring cleaning
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Spring Cleaning #1: The game
A small one-week feature on what happens when we clean our houses. What bubbles to the surface. What reveals itself to be true. What our junk says about our current state and next steps. What the season does to us. … Continue reading
Posted in IN THE HOUSE, ITALY
Tagged André Breton, Beaudelaire, Freud, Hegel, jeu de marseille, spring cleaning
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Closed/Week in review
Monday “To top it off” In which we examine the perfect cappuccino. (Read this.) Tuesday “Somber” In which blogging seems inappropriate given world affairs. (Read this.) Thursday “Unified, sort of” On the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. (Read this.) Friday … Continue reading
Happiness is foraging for dinner
I admit to being a bit blue this week. Hence the lack of a post to the “The Daily {French-Italian} Cure” on Wednesday. Somewhere between the earthquake, the fuming nuclear plants, the continual rain and maybe the shifted axis of … Continue reading
Unified, sort of
Today marks the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. To me who continually experiences Italy as an ancient place (I thought America was the spring chicken), this all feels very odd. But history is a mysterious and continually turning worm. And … Continue reading
Posted in AROUND US, ITALY
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Somber
It’s hard to know, when you blog, if you should or should not carry on business-as-usual when events elsewhere in the world are turning people’s lives upside down, when they are losing everything they have including life itself. You don’t … Continue reading
To top it off…
As I mentioned several posts ago, my ritual of return to Italy involves, almost invariably, a cappuccino as soon as possible after passing the Mont Blanc tunnel. This last trip (Saturday) was no exception, and the cappuccino in question did … Continue reading
Closed/Week in review
Monday “Ritual of return” In which bread and butter remind us of where we are. (Read this.) Tuesday “Of stone and flesh” On our concepts of what is “old”. (Read this.) Wednesday “Time stands still” On the power of stopped … Continue reading
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