There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.
Frances Mayes
Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.
choice identity
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
inspiration beauty
inspiration nature beauty-in-nature
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
poetry language
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
writing
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
food
At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to knock off all the ants. Then I'm happy. With a stunted oak tree for shelter and a never-ending view, I am hidden. No one knows where I am. The nine-year-old's thrill of the hideout under the hydrangea comes back: My mother is calling me and I am not answering.
home garden italy
The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.
travel travel-writing
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