Attraversiamo

I finished a couple of books this past week. One was the interesting memoir of her year in Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert. That one is called "Eat, Pray, Love" and it's been (rightly so) on the NY Times bestseller list for a while now. I wrote about it here briefly while I was reading the Italy section at the beginning of the book. Apparently it is being made into a movie with Julia Roberts, which I can so easily see with the quips, humor and winsome stories she packs in that little volume. One of my favorite parts is how she just loved learning Italian-you know, it's not a language anyone really needs to know unless you just want to. She loves the way it sounds, its beauty mimicking the beautiful countryside, people and food. She gets enamored of the word "attraversiamo" which means "let's cross over." She likes it so much that she is always saying it and pulling her walking companion from one side of the street to the other. It's a metaphor, too, for all of the transitions she undergoes that year, the real point of the book, after surviving a terrible divorce. I like the word too because it seems so hopeful -all about moving forward. I'm doing that too, settling into work again and home routines. My repeat blood work today was beautiful so I can stop thinking about that for another month. Attraversiamo.

Today's photo is from the Black Mtn/Montreat hike we did up Graybeard trail.