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Changing Temples - Venetian Intercourse?

Venetian Intercourse?

Three floors up and across the narrow Venetian street called Corte de Ca’…

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Changing Temples Pt. 25 - In Absentia

Changing Temples Pt. 25 – In Absentia

There is still great pleasure in contemplating the notion of Changing Temples both in terms of the exceptional surprise at the very deep satisfaction found in writing the installments but also in the accuracy of the…

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Changing Temples Pt. 24 Einstein's Relativity Rails

Einstein’s Relativity Rails

“Right now, I feel you’re a bit off the reality rails.” MBFITB

“Marriage, its sorrow and woe, its fragile joys.” Patrick O’Brian, ‘The Far Side of the World’

Einstein proposed a thought experiment about a traveler…

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Changing Temples - Pt. 23 Venice the Improbable

Venice The Improbable

How can a city of such renown be improbable? There’s no place like Rome. There’s no place like Paris. There’s no place like New York City. That refrain rings out constantly from travelers or residents. Of course it is true, but it is…

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Changing Temples Pt. 22 Music Hath Charms 2nd Movement

Music Hath Powers 2nd Movement

There was a time when I could write like a banshee with certain music playing – I could, quite literally, not stop the subconscious, or what ever that is inside of us speaking and seeking outlet; that flow of mind or soul…

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Changing Temples Pt. 21 What Condition Our Condition

“Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” Kenny Rodgers and the First Edition with Glen Campbell on Guitar. 1968

I like to think that it is some form of artistic sensibility in operation, but I have always had what can…

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Changing Temples - Pt. 20 Women of Venice

What is true of two very special women of Venice may be true of any woman one is attracted to –…

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Changing Temples Pt. 19 - Magical Exceptionality

Magical Exceptionality

I did not know what else to call it but a gift from the Gods – in this case the Roman versions. A fine, life-loving Venetian named Davide, did a much, much better job than I – he called it “the magical side of an exceptional…

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Changing Temples Pt. 18 - Music Has Charms . . .

“It is not in soul-searching or constant introspection that we encounter the Lord.” Pope Francesco

Thanks to a dear friend who had a traveler’s agenda I would never have pursued, and thanks to my desire to hear authentic music…

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Changing Temples - Pt. 17 The Constitution of Tragedy

The Constitution of Tragedy

Article I – Preamble

This is about Alberto and Deborah. I have made mention of Deborah here – that delightful Southern Belle with attitude and humor and a heart as big as the world. She came to Italy at 17 years of age and, to…

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What's Not To Love?

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Changing Temples Pt. 16 - How ARE You?

“So get the scrivener part of you activated again and tell me clearly - not poetically – how you are.” R.E.

I knew intellectually over the years that the characters in fiction were often alter egos of the scrivener – ‘The Portrait…

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Changing Temples Pt. 15 - Mindfulness

“There are days”, he reflected, ” when one sees as though one had been blind the rest of one’s life. Such clarity – perfection in everything, not merely in the extraordinary. One lives in the present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing:…

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Changing Temples Pt. 14 - Disneyland Mediterranean Pt. 2

Changing Temples Pt. 14 Disneyland Mediterranean – Pt. 2

“Even the most hopeful city planners worry that in a few decades Venice will not be a city at all, but a museum, a cultural theme park, a decaying Disneyland for adults.” Rick Steves

Imag…

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Changing Temples Pt. 13 Deportation Pt. 3

Changing Temples Pt. 13, Deportation Pt. 3

“I am trying to move on to Italy as soon as possible as I hate this Catholic country with its hundred races and thousand languages. . . . Pola is a back-of-God-speed place—a naval Siberia . . . . Istria is a long…

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Changing Temples Pt. 12 - Deportation Pt. 2

Changing Temples – Deportation, Pt. 2: The Anatomy of Panic

Grab your coat and get your hat Leave your worries on the doorstep Life can be so sweet On the sunny side of the street On The Sunny Side of the Street, 1930

There is a form of incipient…

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Changing Temples Pt. 11

Changing Temples Pt. 11 Deportation Avoidance Behaviors

“I am trying to move on to Italy as soon as possible as I hate this Catholic country with its hundred races and thousand languages. . . . Pola is a back-of-God-speed place—a naval Siberia . . . .…

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