As we prepare to head off to Orvieto today, I was writing this morning about it. You would think, after 10 trips, I would be somewhat blase. Yet I am not. I am as excited as ever. The reason, I think, is that there something magic about the city. Every time I am there all [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Orvieto Magic
Posted in Living Slow, Orvieto Italy, Slow travel vacations, Small group travel Italy on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More Roots
Posted in Culture, Life, Orvieto Italy, Small group travel Italy on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just started a book written in 1982 called “Time and the Art of Living.” I’ve always had a fascination with time. Robert Grudin, the author, made an interesting observation related to my place making work. Vacant space has no meaning to us as people unless it relates to our human stature. So big empty [...]
Back to My Roots
Posted in Orvieto Italy, Technology on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is hard to get away from your roots. Mine are in building community, a sense of community and place. Actually, our trips in Italy, have this as one component. It is the tremendous sense of human-scaled community and place that touches people on our trips.
I just read an article on a concept I first [...]
Going Home
Posted in Life, Orvieto Italy on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As we prepare to return to Orvieto there is a great sense of anticipation. It is like going home. Orvieto is such a comfortable place for us. For some reason it brings out different things. Inexplicably we are more ourselves there than anywhere. There are other places that do this as well: the wonderful cottage [...]
Precious and Insignificant
Posted in Life, Living Slow, Orvieto Italy, Slow travel vacations, Small group travel Italy on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am reading Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth. It is a great book, if you are at that questioning, looking deeper stage of your life. In it he makes a wonderful observation, and I paraphrase:
Seeing earth from space makes you realize it is precious and, paradoxically, insignificant.
It is precious because it is so beautiful, and [...]
Slow Food Orvieto
Posted in Culture, Living Slow, Orvieto Italy, Slow travel vacations, Small group travel Italy, Travel Information on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We leave for Orvieto shortly. Incorporated into our trip is Orvieto’s Slow Food Festival, what they call Orvieto With Taste. The festival has been going on for years with multiple partners including the city and the Slow Cities movement, headquartered in Orvieto.
During the week most restaurants in town have a “Slow Food Menu” that uses [...]
Suburban Nightmare, Italian Dream
Posted in Culture, Orvieto Italy, Slow travel vacations, Small group travel Italy, Travel Information on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
James Howard Kunstler achieved fame for his book “The Geography of Nowhere” a critique of the way we have designed and built since World War II. When I was at Community Builders and did an annual conference called Lovable Communities, we had Kunstler come and speak. This was in the middle to late 1990s. He [...]
