Not a Day in Any Calendar

NOT A DAY ON ANY CALENDAR Rumi (1207-1273) Spring, and everything outside is growing, even the tall cypress tree. We must not leave this place. Around the lip of the cup we share, these words, My Life Is Not Mine If someone were to play music, it would have to be very sweet. We’re drinking [...]

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My California

My world, my California, still needs to be made. To make a new world you start with an old one, certainly. To find a world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge [...]

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I will wait for you (Il Mio Canto)

When the Sun rises… I will wait for you…  I will wait for you. With the stubborness of a chair.

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Sketching in Milano and Venezia

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SketchBloom receives the Liebster Blog Award!

What a fantastic way to start the Year! The Liebster Blog Award is an award given to bloggers by bloggers, and is reserved to ‘upstart’ blogs with less than 200 followers. It originated in Germany and its meaning is ‘beloved’, or favorite.<3 It was bestowed to me by the Kuwaiti artist (und blogschwester!) Ghadah Alkandari [...]

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Venezia e Dintorni e Calatrava

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Winter Venice

In the winter, Venice is like an abandoned theatre. The play is finished, but the echoes remain. Arbit Blatas To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius. Alexander Herzen [...]

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Dispatches from Milano

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