What makes a visit anywhere especially memorable? The people.
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Built in the late Republican period in the 1st century BC, this temple was erected by the quatorvirates Gneus Cesius and Titus Cesius Priscus. Once thought to have been dedicated to Minerva, when a votive plaque to Hercules was later discovered, it is now believed that the temple was dedicated to him.
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Open the door! And what a beautiful portal (a grander word) it is. Wooden doors in Italy are works of art in themselves, be they entrances to cathedrals, palazzi, businesses, or residences.
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In his poetic film, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Italian director Franco Zeffirelli masterfully paints the humble life of Clare and Francis ~ two young souls who devoted their days on earth to caring for the sick, the outcast, and the poor.
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Freedom is a question of perspective. And the border that divides Mexico and the United States is a prime example.
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What is so endearing about seeing laundry hanging outside to dry? The accompanying sensation of how good it smells after being caressed by the wind and warmed by the sun.
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All things consist of carrying to term and then giving birth. To allow the completion of every impression, every germ of feeling deep within, in darkness, beyond words, in the realm of instinct unattainable by logic, to await humbly and patiently the hour of the descent of new clarity: that alone is to live one’s art, in the realm of understanding as in that of creativity.
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“What are you going to study at Sydney University?”
This question (our conversation was in French) came from my father, a man whose wisdom, insight and perceptiveness had come partly from his reading but more so from experience. A boy during the Russian Revolution, he had been deracinated by that event, winding up in France where he took part in the campaign of France in 1940 as a young soldier in the French army.
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This letter was sent by an American living in Sendai to her loved ones after the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan (March 11, 2011).
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