Here is some thoughts while I was on my way to Venice. I also have some pics of Venice as well. More of Florence to come. I will also send a link to Flickr to look at all of our pics to date.
Florence: September 12, 2007
Florence… one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been too. I consider this a precious opportunity to share it with my son. How I wish I could be here with my whole family to enjoy one of the great cities of the world.
As you gaze at the great works of art in timeless museums and walk down cobbled streets of yesterday - yet today you realize that you are just a small part of a huge cosmos. Being here makes me feel that I have missed some part of my life. Not that I have any regrets whatsoever… just that this world is so much bigger than my personal world and we are foolish to not explore and enjoy all that God has given us. We live our life in personal strife, sometimes a fug for some important reasons but many unimportant reasons. It’s up to us in our own reflections and choices to choose what is really important and to live beyond our own personal gains solely; I guess giving back to God what he has given to you. A conscious effort to be a force of life, a hope to those he has put in your charge.
Florence… one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been too. I consider this a precious opportunity to share it with my son. How I wish I could be here with my whole family to enjoy one of the great cities of the world.
As you gaze at the great works of art in timeless museums and walk down cobbled streets of yesterday - yet today you realize that you are just a small part of a huge cosmos. Being here makes me feel that I have missed some part of my life. Not that I have any regrets whatsoever… just that this world is so much bigger than my personal world and we are foolish to not explore and enjoy all that God has given us. We live our life in personal strife, sometimes a fug for some important reasons but many unimportant reasons. It’s up to us in our own reflections and choices to choose what is really important and to live beyond our own personal gains solely; I guess giving back to God what he has given to you. A conscious effort to be a force of life, a hope to those he has put in your charge.
So balancing the ……esque moment I am having and then figuring out how I am going to make my next house payment, not to mention putting on my Super Dad cape and my Humphrey Bogart husbandry uniform; anyway God will help me figure it out. I just don’t want to be apart of the bovine throng of life. Can it be done? My essence says yes… but there will always be a struggle. I think I need to read Ecclesiastes.
We have seen some beautiful statuary and incredible paintings. In Florence there is a courtyard dedicated to great sculpture. It is next to the “Uffizi” which houses many of the great works of art man has ever made. The reason Florence is one of the great art centers of the world is due to a rich/ruling family that had lived in Florence for 400 years. They had collected some of the great works of art during a time of excelled human and artistic growth. The last inherited lineage of this family was a woman… Maria Medici (Meh deh chi). Women at this time were not able to have control of a family fortune (sorry girls), so she dedicated all of the wealth of her family and the great works of art to the city of Florence with one condition… that it could never leave the city of Florence. So for hundreds of years people go to Florence to see, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Goya, Bacilli, Lunghi… the list goes on. You can’t take any pictures of the great works in the galleries, but I will give you some pics of the works outside. Remember, the great “David” sculpture by Michelangelo? It’s here.
We will be in Venice in two hours. Another “Big Gulp” of history and culture. Two days later we cross the Alps to the Northern part of Europe.
Oh, I forgot to mention… I love eating in Italy. Last night I had ordered tomatoes in Sage and Garlic and somehow got beans in Sage and garlic. It was a good mistake. For dessert I had Gelato…. It’s like American Ice Cream on Steroids. I wish it was sugar free… I had Pistachio, Walnut, Coconut and Lemon. The lemon was actually tart. You could taste some of the peel.
Ciao…
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