I wrote, looked, ate, drank, talked and walked at Civitella: what more can you ask of a place than it surround you with good company, great views and peace? I’ve returned home now and the gift of six weeks in Italy seems, like a dream, to be unbearably fleeting,...
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My dear Yann, my heart, Your birthday is approaching. A friend here, David, has composed some pieces of music he names as “Child”. I have listened to them with great emotions, feeling as if I returned far away back in time, into the period from the first weeks of your...
(1960-2016) Tarde En El Lago Trasimeno Aquí, donde tú y yo tomamos sol y nos bañamos, hubo hace siglos una batalla muy sangrienta. Aquí, donde los bañistas se reponen de su jornada de trabajo y los niños corretean desnudos sin que a nadie le importe, pelearon y...
I’m on a game show. They’re paying me money to be on this show, and to use my name, and before the show we all get makeup. Two other men are part of it. I don’t know them; they’re actors maybe, or volunteers, and a woman pats our faces with...
