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- 10 aprile, 2018
Passeggiata a Piedi en Primavera
10 Tuesday Apr 2018
Posted in Travel
Post Under Construction
10 Tuesday Apr 2018
For a long time after the maps were changed,
I could never find the (unremembered) name
Of a deconsecrated church. Booklet in hand
Now the problem continues to be my Italian.
That, and the length of the prose exposition,
Leaves this travel post under construction.
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- With two more sides on the back
A Passage of Time
10 Tuesday Apr 2018
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- 10 aprile, 2018
Rainy Days and Monday
09 Monday Apr 2018
Posted in Art
What better way to spend another rainy day
Than on a Van Gogh date at Sala Pegasus?
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- Formerly La Chiesa di S. Lorenzo
With the production values of the foreign film,
All the art talk was kept in a manageable place.
“True Sense,” “The Study Of”
09 Monday Apr 2018
Posted in Education
Misery–the English word for unhappiness, misfortune, or distress–comes from the Old French misere by way of the Latin miseria, the word for wretchedness.
Misericordia is the Latin word for “mercy,” derived from misericors, “merciful,” which is in turn derived from miserere, “to pity,” and cor, “heart.”
Put it together, I suppose, and my confusion disappears: what I have uncovered in the word that points two ways are false cognates but not false friends?
A Rose By Any Other Name?
09 Monday Apr 2018
Posted in Education
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- Here’s to unwinding the etymology of mercy
When Friends Come
08 Sunday Apr 2018
They can find out what’s going on behind the scene
Simply by asking a countryman an obvious question.
Likewise they encourage us to revisit an old haunt, Just as they insist we overeat just for starters.
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- A Christening
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- The Altarpiece at S. Eufemia
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- Just for Starters
La Fonte di Piazza Mercato
07 Saturday Apr 2018
When Christo was invited to drape the Spoleto Festival in 1968,
His wife chose the sites, while he wrapped up another one tight.
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- Building and fountain wrapped in plastic by sculptor Christo Javacheff. (Photo by Carlo Bavagnoli//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Here in this Time Life photograph, two native Italians are caught unawares by the lens of Carlo Bavagnoli.
When a couple of unknowns returned uninvited, they were far less invested
In the disruption to business than they were in the uncanny resemblance.
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- Building and fountain scaffolded in scrim by unknown workers (Photo by two travelers having the time of their lives)
Less Than a Full Deck
07 Saturday Apr 2018
Posted in Education
More familiar markings on a second deck, still short of a load:
Now the gist of Trump is clear. But the rules,
So far as I can yet tell, remain inscrutable.
Wi-Fi Down: A Patient Saint
06 Friday Apr 2018
So easy to blog when
You pull out a phone;
Much harder to paint
Where your tools ain’t.
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- The Artist in The Open Air