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RITRATTI ITALIANI: August 2008
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Give and Take/Dare e avere. Ivan is a fisherman. His father and his grandfather were also fishermen. They have been catching trout, perch, and coregone in the cold waters of Lago Maggiore for more than 100 years. Ivan goes out onto the lake at night. There are over 2000 postcards in his collection. And so, for many ye...
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RITRATTI ITALIANI: Two Very Simple Things/Due cose molto simplici
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Saturday, January 3, 2009. Two Very Simple Things/Due cose molto simplici. Questa sera, vedremo come due cose molto simplici, come l'uva ed il sole, possono diventare un'altra cosa straordinaria, come il vino.". 8220;This evening, we will see how two things very simple, grapes and the sun, can become another thing very extraordinary.”. I brought...
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RITRATTI ITALIANI: November 2008
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Wednesday, November 19, 2008. It's the Other Thing/E' l'altra cosa. Have noticed that when I travel I have a tendency to miss the big things, but see the other things. What I mean is, I will make a trip to a famous tourist location, and then spend almost no time at all seeing the thing for which it became famous. I didn't take a gondola ride in.
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RITRATTI ITALIANI: October 2008
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Monday, October 6, 2008. The Perfect Recipe/La ricetta perfetta. I don't remember Amil's recipe for lasagna, but I learned the recipe for a perfect evening. Mix together companionship, food, and wine. Prepare them under a twinkling sky in an orchard filled with apples and olives. And the secret ingredient? Always add just a little bit of magic.
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RITRATTI ITALIANI: The Spring/La Primavera
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Saturday, March 14, 2009. Rebirth. A chance to begin again. Everything is new, everything is possible. Symbolically and literally, spring is youth, promise, and opportunity. Perhaps that is why, on the first day of April. I am noticing all around me the evidence of this rebirth. I am in the Giardino Botanico Alpinia, high above Lago Maggiore.
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RITRATTI ITALIANI: Non Ho Avuto il Tempo (I Haven't Had the Time)
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Wednesday, December 3, 2008. Non Ho Avuto il Tempo (I Haven't Had the Time). 8221; I haven’t had the time. The time for what? Non ho avuto il tempo. I think on this often. Do I have the time? Would I like to say that I haven’t had the time? Il tempo per cosa? Mi faceva diventare matta questo mistero. Direttamente di fronte il ritratto, un qu...
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RITRATTI ITALIANI: March 2009
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Saturday, March 14, 2009. Rebirth. A chance to begin again. Everything is new, everything is possible. Symbolically and literally, spring is youth, promise, and opportunity. Perhaps that is why, on the first day of April. I am noticing all around me the evidence of this rebirth. I am in the Giardino Botanico Alpinia, high above Lago Maggiore.
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RITRATTI ITALIANI: Bernardo and his Castle/Bernardo ed il suo castello
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Thursday, June 25, 2009. Bernardo and his Castle/Bernardo ed il suo castello. Bernardo loves to show us around the castle. Have you ever been with a small boy who wants you to see his treasures? You know how he will take you in his room? Show you his favorite toy car, a rock he found? These are my family! Let’s go outside now! Follow me this way!
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RITRATTI ITALIANI: The River Cree/Il Fiume Cree
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Saturday, February 7, 2009. The River Cree/Il Fiume Cree. Author's Note: I've been doing a lot of research recently for my travel blog, Stresa Sights. It is focused, fairly obviously, on the city of Stresa, located on Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy. The following story came out of that research. Thousands of years passed. Century. Weekly ma...
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RITRATTI ITALIANI: Ciao Amore...
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RITRATTI ITALIANI. PORTRAITS OF ITALY. THESE ARE MY LITTLE STORIES AND THOUGHTS, WRITTEN IN BOTH ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, OF THE TIMES I'VE SPENT NELLA BELLA ITALIA. Monday, May 25, 2009. I first wrote about these ladies on my Stresa Sights. Blog, immediately after having had the pleasure of lunching next to them on a warm afternoon in March 2009. Here, I've reworded things a bit and translated the story into Italian. Ciao, Amore.", she answered, in a sing-song voice. Oh, how cute they were! I'm sorry ladies...
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