Finally added the photos of Berlin, taken during the Elsevier Editors’ Conference, 13-16 October 2006. Am cleaning out all the old photo files to add…
It was last January 6, Befana Day in Italy, aka Epiphany (“manifestation” in Greek; sudden intuitive leap that lands in a flash of understanding about…
(With kind thanks to Pat and the Episcopalians at Saint Paul’s within the Walls in Rome.)
The choir went to Orvieto yesterday, Sunday 3 December, first Sunday in Advent. Very cold, even colder inside the church… but very beautiful. Here, the…
My article “Forest and tree symbolism in folklore” here, published by the FAO in the forestry journal Unasylva. Some resources on the Parco della Caffarella…
O sages standing in God’s holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre And…
Emilia-Romagna with sand. The beach at Cervia on the Adriatic in early morning. Beach umbrellas. David and his sand tunnels. Sand after the storm. © 2006-2014…
The reception at San Giovanni in Monti, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 3, 40124 Bologna BO, Italy. Notes: “Chiostro di San Giovanni in Monte, già…
Little day trip to Bologna, the food capital of Italy, according to some… Wonderful leaning towers and brick structures everywhere. One of Europe’s oldest universities.…
Evening of 18 August 2006. Summer film series on the terrace every evening at 21.00. See the slideshow here. © 2006-2014 Judith Crews
David_Baccalaureat_Chateaubriand Yesterday was the graduation ceremony for David. He received his Baccalauréat from the Lycée Chateaubriand in Rome, after two years here. He did very…
“Heracles did not return to Mycenae by a direct route. He first traversed Libya, whose King Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Mother Earth, was in…
