And just like that. . . 2023!

Five days into the new year, and I’m slowly letting some priorities emerge. I’m curious about whether any words or goals or even resolutions might reveal themselves, but so far I’m content to make the shift into 2023 slowly. What about you? Click through to read, and maybe we can compare notes.

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Sketching a Neapolitan Angel, There and Here

After a month of travel, every day somewhere to go, meals eaten out, scarcely a morning alone, I’ve plummeted into the relative stillness and isolation of a bout of Covid. Most symptoms gone now, the fatigue yet keeps me on the other side of all the December busy-ness. I’m trying to see that as a good thing, using the quiet time to sketch up some travel memories.

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Postcards from Turin

Wifi is still elusive here, but I’ve managed to scrawl a few postcards to send you. Click through to learn about these bulls to be spotted all over Turin, and to see some of the city’s architectural and alimentary delights.

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Sketching up Thanksgiving!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all of you and a special thank you to all my readers and commenters for your support and encouragement. Click through to read more — including a recipe for a hearty side dish which can also work as a vegetarian meal on its own.

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Back to Sicily, on a Sunday. . .

One afternoon last month, we stepped from the noisy bustle of Palermo’s Via Maqueda into the quiet hallowed space of a Baroque chapel where I sketched and we drank in the restorative architectural beauty and the deep resonance of centuries of use. Join me for a few minutes in revisiting that well of peace again?

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