When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. C.S. Lewis

I walked streets narrow and cobbled

an ancient original of the pedestrian path at home.

7500 km away the voices mixed

English of visitors-

US, UK and Australian-

Italian native-

accented amalgamy of all.

Buildings steeped on each side

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not imposing but yet so present and so close.

Vendors hawking selfie sticks and EU chargers

made in Italy coin purses and painted landscapes repeated from piazza to piazza-

I was not in awe

and this filled me with wonder.

What had changed since that first entry through customs

how could travel possibly have become commonplace?

Had I flatlined awe?

After the meeting, the seeing, the setting up, sorting, making, working, experiencing-

and no sooner going home-

surely I was not done with alive?!

-then, there, at 6am 10,000 feet up

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awe rejuvenated.

With a beep and a whir,

seat belts fastened and tray tables erect,

new life.

Sometimes it is in the looking back that we see where we are

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-and wonder.

This is why I EncaustiCamp.

in love.

trish