“The delicatessens, like small-scale food circuses, charmed me, but there was more, far more in North Beach to discover and be delighted by. I loved Italy and Italians and the way they lived their lives: their focus on children and family, their faith, and the enjoyment of the senses God had endowed them with. Life […]
Continue reading“Cafés were separated by no more than fifty yards at any point. Apparently, the Italians were serious about their espresso. I noticed that there were older cafés that catered to a local crowd and newer ones that seemed to attract younger people and those who happened to be in the neighborhood. In the former, older […]
Continue reading“The professor’s wife, who had her hand under his arm in the best nineteenth-century style, wore her hair perfectly lacquered in place as if it were made of shredded-plastic threads. Despite being seventy-five years old, she still showed, in her expression, the spirit of a girl of twenty. Everyone on the balcony noticed this incongruous […]
Continue reading“At least twenty big cumulus clouds hung above the hilly horizon like a fleet of otherworldly dirigibles. The clouds shadowed the earth beneath them and Skylar stopped walking, rapt by the stark contrast between the celestial and terrestrial worlds. Above him the endless sky shone clear in ultramarine at its zenith, then in cornflower, delphinium, […]
Continue reading“In the movement and rhythms of nature, she found an inexplicable congruence with her own inner being. Sparrows exploding up and outwards as if expelled from a cannon barrel; soughing branches of the Spanish Oak above her, rising, falling, being bent side to side by the push and pull of the winds, their spiky leaves, […]
Continue reading“Eternity is the heritage of humanity. It is what we are. Time and space are but concepts. Pure, undespoiled Being is our nature, foreverywhere and always. People madly pursue happiness and satisfaction in the apparently external world like someone looking for his own eyes. “I want to see. Where are my eyes? Give them to […]
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