18/11/2025
Three Years in 🇮🇹…
This week marks three years since we packed up our cats, and flew from New York To Italia 🇮🇹
Flipping through photos this morning I walked along emotions, and feels that are difficult to explain unless you’ve also lived it.
This place, for me, has been such a gift. Learning alongside my forever person , has strengthened our relationship and clarified our priorities.
It’s not always easy- and you have to take the sweet with the sour.
Being away from family is hard. Sharing Italy with them when they visit- is a joy.
This land is a place of beauty and bounty. Within it I have found community that expanded my heart 3 sizes. I have found flavor, art, inspiration and joy.
I have found artists, yogis, witches & friends.
I have found me, quiet and true. I Have found strength to lead retreats, circles, and old friends through new places.
I found a life with no alarm clocks, no hurried steps, & no force.
Instead it is a life of sunrises, creative projects, aperitivo and long walks.
There is still work, there is still worry, there is still stress.
It is , after all, life.
But to my palate it all tastes a bit sweeter. A bit easier to swallow.
For when you take a spoon full of vinegar while staring out at the sun rising over the cathedral. The acidic sting gets dwarfed by the grandness of the view. And suddenly that vinegar tastes a bit like wine.
In this life we choose what matters- we choose what path to take. And I , well I choose Italy 🇮🇹 and she has chosen us right back.
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