January | Michelangelo’s Marble Quarry in the Apuan Alps | “We thought it would be a beautiful drive through the mountains and somehow the marble would be more accessible. It was beautiful but I would not know it because I was glued to the floor of the car in sheer terror as the guard rails fell away and the rustic tunnels opened to rivers of marble that seemed flow to the sea.” Click here to read more …
February | Celebrating Saint Valentine on the Italian Riviera | “What struck me is that the food is prepared with such passion. It is not the complexity of flavors that make the food so distinctive. It is the purity of the seasonally available matched with the respect for the time it takes to prepare things well, that make Italian food so nourishing.” Click here to read more …
March | Colorful Carnevale in Viareggio on the Tuscan Coast | “Just as I was beginning to hyperventilate, I saw a sign that said Viareggio’s 141st Carnevale and I decided to relax. I kept telling myself quietly, they have been at this a while so just enjoy. I kept trying to imagine the traffic in the USA getting to festivals and parades and what would happen if kids ambushed festival-goers with buckets of confetti or greasy silly string unannounced.” Click here to read more …
April | The Tirreno-Adriatico Individual Time Trial In Versilia, Tuscany | “I could hear the disc wheels on the warming pavement. I could feel the breeze created by sheer human power as the riders came out of the turn. I could feel gears vibrate and shift with changing cadence and it was as if this race was all for me.” Click here to read more …
May | The Perfect Spring Day In Sestri Levante Liguria, Italy | “As I stood on the dock, with the sun on my face, listening to many languages swirling around me as day-trippers passed, I could almost hear the sound of the villager’s hundreds of years ago. I could imagine echoing voices bounding around craggy peninsula walls, as boats rowed into the harbor giving thanks for the reflection of the frescoed buildings on the glassy, emerald sea.” Click here to read more …
June | Dublin, Ireland Daily Bustle | “Arriving is when we step into that place of awareness where our whole self is alive and ready to be enveloped. It is that moment when we are no longer looking for the familiar on foreign soil. When we first arrived in London after leaving our life in the USA, the predictability of Starbucks was familiar and comforting. A few weeks ago, landing in Ireland, able to understand every menu, sign, and a person we encountered, prepared us for our re-entry into the USA. Giving ourselves that space to align was more important than we knew at the time because it prepared us to truly arrive.” Click here to read more …
July | Cozy Titcomb’s Bookshop In Cape Cod, Massachusetts | “The last time I visited Cape Cod, I was on a business trip and needed to get from meeting to meeting quickly. I traveled on Route 6 and saw very little of the magic that lingers just off the main road in either direction.” Click here to read more …
August | Pendleton, Oregon Ranch With A Watchful Eye As A Foal Is Born | “When we arrived at the ranch in 2012, we had no idea what to expect. Our daughter was only four-years-old and the boys were eight and nine. We walked into the open pasture, hundreds of acres of golden hills stretching as far as the eye could see, with 70 plus horses peacefully on the ridge. We knew we were standing somewhere we had never been and yet we were completely at peace.” Click here to read more …
September | Orcas Island, Washington Family Reunion | “I realized as we docked on Orcas, my mind was in the Baltic Sea. I was thinking of the tar on the pilings and the creaking dock as we waited to depart so many months ago. Sweden seems so far away from here … So far away from home, yet intimately familiar.” Click here to read more …
October | The Relaxed Glow Of The North Shore Of Oahu, Hawaii | “No two days on the north shore of Oahu are the same and yet it has a timeless quality. I realized this as we were eating a piece of chocolate-haupia pie from Ted’s Bakery as waves grew with an impending storm on Sunset Beach.” Click here to read more …
November | The Perfection Of Lanikai Beach, Kailua Hawaii | “I learned during this visit to the USA that face to face time with family was something I was not willing to give up to unwanted noise. Because our time was limited, I recognized its value in new and powerful ways. I am grateful that I now know that unwanted noise can make it feel like time is slipping away, when in fact those moments are mine to preserve.” Click here to read more …
December | Taking It All In At Wellington Harbor, New Zealand | “Of course it is all a matter of perspective. We are only disoriented because we are used to a completely different orientation and that is the gift of travel. Only two percent of Americans that travel internationally, will travel to New Zealand/Australia this year. For us, that means there is a story to tell about this far off place we have landed.” Click here to read more …
Today’s Tweetable: Livology 2015 Photo Journal of The Year.
