"Ad Astra - to the Stars" Ancient Latin phrase Oh, Florence. Once again we cross paths, like ships, sailing now for new horizons. Can it really be goodbye this time? I gave up my life in Florence little over a year ago. I packed up, took myself over to Venice, then Athens, rural Greece, through [...]
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Finding Voice – the Gospel
Florence, Italy. May 2015. Finding Voice has been perhaps my greatest journey yet. To say I travel alone would be a bit of a lie... My Voice (along with my Lens) is my travel companion. And I honestly don't know where I'd be without it. So, yes, I've sung a lot of Jazz... but finding the Gospel [...]
A City Lies – A Poem
Black crows sail the purple sky. Clouded mass of scattered black, Circling round and plummeting down like Shooting stars – burnt out; ash. But see them rise again; bolting back, Like acrobats from distant Mars. Look at how they steal this night, winged as bats; And skilled as the throat of the messenger lark. The [...]
How to Fake Italian…
On Florentine Life, Renaissance Schools, and How I Became the Worst Student Ever... ...and thrived. For many people, the idea of selling all your things and giving up your home, packing a single suitcase, travelling solo across Italy, and enrolling in an Italian school in one of the world's most beautiful cities, is something of [...]