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Under the tuscan sun author6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Free to go Free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth. There’s the visceral aspect too – the huntress who is free. You open as in childhood and – for a time – receive this world. You become a godlike creature full of choice free to visit the stately pleasure domes make love in the morning sketch a bell tower read a history of Byzantium stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna dei fusi. Even better if you speak the language you catch nuances and make more contact with people. Language becomes simply a musical background for watching bicycles zoom along a canal calling for nothing from you. When travelling you have the delectable possibility of not understanding a word of what is said to you. They become friends and decide to leap out of what is forecast for them and take on life in Italy. Three southern women meet at orientation at Cornwallis Meadows, an active life-style retirement community. What makes these people who they are Could I feel at home here No one expects you to have the stack of papers back by Tuesday or to check messages or to fertilize the geraniums or to sit full of dread in the waiting room at the protologist’s office. Frances Mayes's new novel (April, 2018) Women in Sunlight delves into possibilities women face as they grow older. Widely published poet, gourmet chef, and travel writer, Frances Mayes opens the door to a voluptuous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa. “When you travel you become invisible if you want. ![]()
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