While I’ll have much more to post from the last month traveling to Morocco, Tunisia and an unexpected stop in Rome, Italy… there is a bit of ritual that must occur when I leave a country. While the introspection is something I welcome, there is also a time to think less and live more in the moment and that, to me, is Rome in summary. With so many reminders of the past, it helps center one in the present, because today’s present is tomorrow’s past. Duh, you say?! Hang on, I’m making a point, I think. So my present to you is to please remember that all you say or do matters. We don’t have to be heads of state or famous something or anothers to make a huge impacted. What you or I do may not ever be written in books or our image cast in a monument but it will not be lost to the pages of time because it reverberates and never goes away and like a pebble on the surface of the water, can trigger a tsunami of consequences, good or bad, for generations to come. Am I making sense? Sorry, a glass of wine followed by some Joseph Campbell reading gets me in a philosophical mood. What I want to say is roaming around Rome and North Africa was a trip I’ll treasure a lifetime but the connections made, whether with Leonardo over a glass of Italian wine on a Roman rooftop as featured here… or with a Moroccan bread vendor or a Tunisian apartment host, that is what drives me to travel. The sites and food and smells and place are just peripheral excuses to get out there and meet the neighbors. If more of us did it, there’d be less misery, suffering and war… I’m sure of it. Couldn’t we all use some of that? Saluti! #rawtravel #wine #rome #Italy
