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Feeling the Family
One asset of C19 is a new appreciation for family. Pre-Covid 19, little news affirmed family life. So mundane, passe and irrelevant in a...
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Another birth!
Not a lamb, although it is lambing season. And I do miss watching the bees emerge from their hives out to enjoy these warm March days,...
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On veterans
It is a family tradition in my southeast Virginia hometown to place flowers and mementos on the graves of loved ones on each holiday. ...
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Living by RULE culture today
Mr. Lenwood Sloan, formerly of New Orleans but now entrenched in Pennsylvania cultures and communities, identifies himself as an African...
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Living by RULE and trust
Our reading assignment has us reading a treatise on the importance of trust and being trustworthy in all things. Our township manager...
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Living by RULE observing local leaders
March 8,2016. The Stars have aligned a bit. I forgo a bee keepers meeting to visit the Plumbstead board of supervisors March meeting. I...
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Sweet Spot
Over weeks of walking and traveling by train around the region, there has been no lack of fairy tale vistas, world heritage palazzos...
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Travel lessons
Dogs go everywhere in Italy…on local trains and busses, stores, vacation hotels of course. Should have anticipated this when crying...
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The simple things
While waiting for the WC at Ufizzi Gallery in Florence, the Medici family home now considered to be the Louvre of Italy, an insight about...
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The thing about artists …
At the academy in Florence with David and 5 of Michelangelo’ s unfinished pieces. He must have seen the writing on the wall. So much...
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Where art matters
Finished reading Sarah Dunant’s Birth of Venus in time to appreciate her views of 15th century Florence through the eyes of a young woman...
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Culture, Genoa style
What happened to the ability to be up and out by 0730? Finally a vacation that leaves my old schedule behind. One item on Sunday’s...
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Connections 2: Indulging the Past
Any souvenir trinkets must be small. A small carry-on is packed neatly with a tight rotation to accommodate a lengthy stay. None of those...
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A moody day in Genoa
With recovery from time change and a home spill near complete, it’s time for a tourist agenda! A ride across the he bay on a “navebus”...
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Connections
Emerging from the warrens of medieval streets that provide a unique shopping experience in Genoa, I find a sense of home. Industrious...
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Night 2, Genoa
Youth…more energy! Maturity…I need to rest in this morning to recover from a day of travel. I waunder the streets a bit. Main train...
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A Journey Begins
my body’s morning constitutional tells me it is 0730. I am always late for the 0800 aqua size class at the Y. groggy from catnapping on...
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Life is living creatively, working creatively, thinking and engaging creatively.
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