More hellos from Italy!
June 20, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Italy, My Family & Friends
Just a reminder…I’m not at my desk for two weeks. Please don’t get upset if I don’t email you or answer your question or approve your comment. It’s not that I don’t love you, it’s just that I can’t! Because I’m in fabulous Italy, and all the posts you are reading were written far ahead of time. Including this one, with great pictures that my daughter took months ago.
Dani was studying in Orvieto for the semester (poor poor baby!), and Mike and I have gone over to hook up with her and do a little touristing…
Be home soon! Love you all…be good!
OH, Cindi – wonder if you will meet any Comunelles, Tannarios or Giordanos while you visited it? I’ve family there but God knows where they are… they are supposed to be in Southern Italy !
Come home safe !!!
Hope you got to see Naples and Capri – not to mention dear, beloved Agropoli.
HAVE A TERRIFIC TIME IN ITALY.. HOPE YOU VISIT VENEZIA, MY FAVORITE PLACE . ONLY BEEN THEIR ABOUT 12 TIMES. ENJOY,,,ROSEY FROM CALIFORNIS
Thanks so much! I got home late last night…got to Venice (pictures coming), but no further south than Rome. It’s just going to take another trip LOL!!
What a time it was!
Ah, perhaps someday.. I’ve just about given up hope of ever seeing that most beautiful of lands this lifetime. My husband and I are saving for retirement, we’re not poor but not rich either. My mother had so many stories. She would tell them to me as she sewed beads on the vestments for the priest at our church or repaired the church laces – Oh, her beading,Cyndi !! I have but one poor picture of it, it was all so very lovely. She could not, would not teach me lesson one, though. I would beg for stories — the price of the stories were all her beading needles threaded in a row and her scissors fetched from the floor every time they fell –
I fell in love with Italia, story telling, beads, lace and fine hand work all at once. They are all ONE in my imagination.
Oh how I hope you’ll be able to go one day! It is the most amazing country I’ve ever seen (not that I’ve seen that many!). We were enchanted by Orvieto, mesmerized by Venice, and blown away by Rome
You should visit Siena someday if you ever get a chance. I’ve been doing a lot of research on her for a short novel I am writing.. she is a lovely, ancient town — caught in the Amber of a timelessness we Americans can not even imagine.
I know so little about the north compared to the South, oh, I know the usual history and art — but it is the South that calls to me. My mom taught me to study my own culture and roots.
I always wanted to see the statue of Giordano Bruno, a fellow southerner, in Rome.. fascinating philosopher of the late Renaissance. Few know of him, today, but he was truly a man ahead of his time.
Did you get to see any Murano Glass or is that a stupid question?
I keep promising myself I am going to return to my jewelry making, Cyndi, my fingers are itching for beads — repaired some bracelets last week.
And oh, yes — welcome back HOME!!
LOL
Wow, What great Pic’s I felt like I was there with you!
My daughter *loved* Siena! Much like Orvieto, where she was living, they are both very tied to old customs and way of life. I don’t know that I saw the statue of Giordano Bruno (we saw so much it makes my head spin), but we sure did get out to Murano. I’ve got pictures to share!
Thank you, Mary! Those pix are my daughter’s but I’ll be sharing lots of mine in the weeks to come