My time at Civitella has been one of the most productive and nurturing periods of my life as a writer. I was able to find a deep and sustained focus that has been neary impossible lin the year of the pandemic, a year that has marked all of us, and the world, forever....
Time is wealth for an artist. As a mortal species, it is our most unreplenishable resource. As artists, it is what we try daily to alchemize into our work. Civitella deepened and lengthened my time on this planet. That’s a literal miracle, the kind of...
My Civitella was a renaissance into deep sensory pleasure, which daily life and the intense pressures of juggling a family and career has slowly diminished over these past few decades. I was exhausted, beyond exhausted, before coming. The change wrought has been...