Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Frozen in time

I've been told that "nostalgia" is derived from an Ancient Greek word meaning "the pain, sadness  or excessively sentimental yearning to return to home or to revisit some past period or irrecoverable condition."
This is a county and people with layers of history, diversity and "complications" that it a slow fuse to absorb... like smoking a huge cigar. I need and want to go back - if it is still there.

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Steps and stairs

Stracciatella (chocolate chip gelato) is easily burned off one step at a time.

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