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A Letter from South America: Beautiful Moments, Part IV
This is the fourth in the series of four articles about a trip to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil made by Lisa (2019) in November 2013. Rio de Janeiro was the final chord of this perfectly orchestrated symphony. There, it was hot…. Read More ›
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A Letter from South America: Beautiful Moments, Part III
This is the third in the series of four articles about a trip to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil made by Lisa (2019) in November 2013. Discussing South America without a word about the roads would have been wrong and disrespectful. Volumes could… Read More ›
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A Letter from South America: Beautiful Moments, Part II
This is the second in the series of four articles about a trip to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil made by Lisa (2019) in November 2013. Several hundred miles to the south lay the tiny town of El Calafate. There, the mountains were… Read More ›
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A Letter from South America: Beautiful Moments, Part I
This is the first in the series of four articles about a trip to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil made by Lisa (2019) in November 2013. After a month of trying to tell my story of South America as a cohesive narrative… Read More ›
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A letter from Tuscany: The Paradise
Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good Government—a fourteenth-century fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico in the city of Siena, Italy—is an endless source of inspiration for discussing politics, art, and philosophy of the early Italian Renaissance. Tangent to the traditional way of thinking… Read More ›
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Magnum Opus
Picture this: an opera house. Darkness. People are fumbling with programs, lost in the thoughts of conversations that grow dim as the lights are switched off. The clock above the stage silently shifts to show 6:30. As if by magic,… Read More ›
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