it’s easy to tell you’re in italy – the buildings all look like over-iced box cakes with doo-dads on top of the doo-dads, flourishes on flourishes… a bad case of kitsch cake.
never knew venice was an island.
we discover we’re not the sort who can drop into a new town for a day or three and move on. in 5.5 months of travel we’ve seen enough new new to fill our eyes,.. to make the new new trick work anew, we’d have to go to the far east and fill our eyes with even stranger strangenesses. we find we need time to dip and savor a place… walk its beats, sip its streets. in burley on wharfdale in northern england, we took 7 days to savor the moors… in lewishham we had 3 weeks to learn london and the local poetry scene. in krakow there were 7 weeks to dip into the underground music scene with our 4 poetry readings. the 2.5 months in croatia so far have rewarded us richly in people, beauty, and 267 pages of our collaborative manuscript of smith non-fiction – plus kathy’s created a dozen new pieces of art, moved her act up another notch.
so we’ll walk venetian streets tomorrow and go home sunday with a surface taste of this ancient city – can say we’ve been here, but not that we’ve seen here.
i do have some dynamite fotos to blog next monday tho – some of pure beauty.
had to kill the statistics logging on www.agentofchaos.com – it was eating up my space. november and december 2006 saw 62,330 sessions viewing 213,817 pages. no more keeping score.
learned this trip to italy that no matter what you learn, there’s always more to know. rather like life.