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Rain, Sleet, Snow, Fog
... I feel hard pressed to see goodness in us at all. We hate, we break; we oppress and repress. The pantheon holds my face gently and lifts it up to see beyond our baseness; it extends a gentle arm around me and embraces me with goodness and beauty and truth. Hmmm. All that from a structure built of cold stone . . . wow.
The weather has been what the weather will tend to be in December in Italy. As Paul would say, I’ve just “allowed” ...
Last Two Days
Yesterday and today has been wet, windy, and cold -- thunder and lightening yesterday -- so not much walking about or touristing. It is currently 3 Farenheit (48 degrees) ... Brrr. We did go to Le Celle Franciscan Hermitage yesterday (see pictures). It's a very old, but still active, monastery. The setting is absolutely beautiful and peaceful. Then on to Cortona where the town was empty and most of the shops were closed. We walked ...
Thanksgiving Dinner
... and stories. Well... the sign language helped. It was great... the perfect Thanksgiving dinner! And... what is on the schedule today? Why... Shopping naturalmente!! It is the day after Thanksgiving after all. Seriously, we will probably head into the beautiful town of Anghiari, or go a little farther to Arezzo... after a few more cups of caffe. ...
Still at It
... the only guest staying at the Locanda. Every morning Virginia comes to get breakfast and caffe for me, cleans my room, and then closes up. I let myself in each night when I get back from the day's activities. The restaurant is only open on the weekends. I am picking up more Italian words here and there. And, getting much better at sign language! ...
Staring at Goats in Anghiari
... As lovely and relaxing of a time as we were having, we had really hoped to be able to do a bit more work around the farm and have opportunities to learn more but it was just not the right time of year for that. So after four days we decided we had enough relaxing and should spend our time seeing more of Italy so we said good bye to Brent and Brian and spent a couple of days in the town of Arezzo, 40 minutes south west of ...