Diary of an Aesthete - Follow the Journey ☩𓀙𓃦☉

All Roads Lead to Rome

on February 15, 2020March 8, 2021 By James Dee Clayton 47 Comments

I thought, there, where all this began, I might find something of before. Some treasure, some sign... some relic of a former life. In a way I was totally right. In a way I couldn't have been more wrong. I found a skeleton, all flesh decayed and returned to dust. It seems time does not preserve [...]

Chasing Eternity… and Letting It Go.

on March 13, 2015March 5, 2020 By James Dee Clayton 20 Comments

On Rome, my first Italian Home, Swimming in Volcanic Lakes, Dancing in the city's Oldest Fountain, and the Art of Letting Go... Rome, the Eternal City - wasn't my first Italian love, but she was the first place on la terra dei sogni - the land of dreams - that I called my home. If Italy inspired the traveller [...]