by Greta D'Amico | Nov 23, 2020 | General
Real life is healthier if one gives it the holiday in unreality that is its due. — Gaston Bachelard, Of Water and Dreams/ L’eau et les rêves Reculer pour mieux sauter. The gist is to retreat from an obstacle so as to reflect, gather one’s forces, and begin...
by Greta D'Amico | Aug 15, 2020 | General
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” Rachel Carson – Silent Spring Ferragosto: changing colors here and there, leaf fall . . . already! In Italy, Feriae...
by Greta D'Amico | Jul 1, 2020 | General
I’ve been thinking about confinement lately, after four months of hunkering down, no end in sight. I had some concerns about geographical enclosure before our fairly recent move from coastal Washington to the mountains of North Carolina, two-thousand feet above sea...
by Greta D'Amico | Apr 27, 2020 | General
A brief story: At the age of fifteen, with a friend, I took a canoe trip on the Saint Croix River in Minnesota. We put in at Scandia, a few miles north of my grandparents’ cabin and paddled leisurely downstream, winding in and out of sloughs, floating with the...
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