American Girl in Italy

How does the blue mold get in Gorgonzola? Have you ever heard the rocks at Castiglioncello sing and why do writers always seek solace in Italy? Time for me to find the answers to these and see, if in doing so, I also find my home.

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i am actually the lost royal heir to the small kingdom of Birundi...having been secreted away by my wet nurse when mean overlords arrived turning our little known, yet terribly chic fiefdom into a nasty republic. now my people sit glued with their eyes glazed.....dreaming of distant IRA's and stock options, having long forgotten the taste of sweet green olive oil and the scent of rosemary.

08 September 2007

C'è una strega dentro l'anima

Letting go of someone you love is never easy.....for some it takes a month, for others years, and then for those really special ones, even a lifetime isn’t ever enough.

With loves that deep, the wounds their loss inflict go deep, cleanly slicing through your best laid defenses, and forever leaving shrapnel scattered about the recesses of your soul.

Sometimes the pain is merely dull, a thudding managed easily enough with a glass of wine or laughter and vervé, maybe perhaps a walk in upon a sunlit boulevard crunching first autumn leaves gently underfoot.

Other times, though, the scab seems securely in place, the wound healing to outside eyes, yet an abscess simmers, feeding upon the very tissue of your spirit. You are never sure when it will spill over to your day to day leaving you quiet and introspective, and quite a few times impenetrable, even to your closest of confidants.

“Tell me about you” you deflect, hand tenderly covering soul as you mop up your leaking heart discreetly with a silken scarf.

You are good at helping others, occupying yourself and them, with your caring. And others neediness usually takes front row quickly enough to allow you the privacy to tend your wounds as you see fit, even if not without notice.

Those closest to you know, and care enough for you to allow you your diversions or silence, so as not to disturb, to push, or better yet, to remind. They want you to dress your wounds as you see fit, and even though they know full well your pain, they are there and ready to help you into your armour, silently respecting your strategy to battle your own ghosts in the way you see fit.

If you look around, you will see there are others that are standing at your flank to help you, and though you hope never to call on them, you are comforted by their presence.

Just in case.


C'è una strega dentro l'anima
Che mi porta dritto a te
La sua magia e la sua pratica
fanno di me
Una preda da stanare
Senza scampo e si va bene
Non sarà la fine del mondo
se ho toccato il fondo
I need a new direction
I need a new direction
C'è una strega dentro l'anima
Che ogni giorno mangia un po di me
Ed è fuori da ogni logica
ma forse c'è
Un messaggio da capire,
c'è una pista da seguire
Noi facciamo tutti parte
della stessa sorte
I need a new direction
I need a new direction
E' tempo di cambiare
di non lasciarsi andare
Di vivere la vita così
Come un angelo o un assassino
Ognuno nel suo passato
Ognuno col suo destino
C'è una strega dentro l'anima
Che ogni notte mi parla di te
Nel suo libro c'è
una formula per me
Che ho bisogno del tuo amore
Ho bisogno di star bene
Io non voglio indifferenza
Voglio più coscienza
I need a new direction
I need a new direction
E' tempo di cambiare
di non lasciarsi andare
Di vivere la vita così
Come un angelo o un assassino
Ognuno nel suo mondo
E' tempo di cambiare
di non lasciarsi andare
Di vivere la vita così
Come un angelo o un assassino
Ognuno nel suo passato
Ognuno col suo destino

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