Every beginning is a new ending!

fritters of whitebait

typical local breakfast coffee (usually short black) and cornetti (custard, marmalade or chocolate filled pastry)

a baker at work

the results!

very drinkable and affordable local wine

23^rd March 2011 Capo D’Orlando
Today I wrote for 2 hours. The writing flowed. I described this place, the people and my feelings

I put it all in context…told you how I came to be here, described my first time in Sicily and told you of her history and treasures. I even told you how to get here, things to see and do and shared some hard earned wisdom and tips on travelling

I told you of the local customs, (explained rituals for greeting others at a “bar” (café) described delicious food I have already tried (fritters of whitebait and risotto with wild asparagus and prawns) and mentioned local wines (A very drinkable affordable red Rapitala’ Nero D’Avola 2009 for about 6 euro or Planeta 2006 Merlot 23 euro, and a good white Corvo Glicine).

I described my excursions to the hills nearby visiting local farmers for fresh ricotta and wood fired bread with my host Calogero and his mate. I even attached photos so you see just how rustic and beautiful this place is.  

I confided that I felt strangely sad and flat and mused as to the reasons why; perhaps the weather (grey, cold and wet) the many memories I have here (of friendships ended and sorely missed) or a realisation that as much as I feel connected to this place, it is not my home and the day will soon come when I will leave. Maybe it is a combination of all these things.  

I did all this …and was feeling such a sense of achievement, when everything I had written inexplicably disappeared from the computer screen.

I tried for ages to recover the document but stupidly I had been working directly on the blog site and it was nowhere to be found.

The title of this blog was “every beginning is a new ending”

Perhaps what happened was just an illustration of this point.

Nothing stays the same.

Everything that happens, positive and negative is just a temporary state

It is just as senseless to try to hold on to the “good as to avoid the “bad”

If that is true what’s the point of it all ….I hear you ask

Carpe Diem (Seize the day)    

Simply accept and appreciate that this moment is all we have

Savour it

Make it count

But don’t hold on to it

Surrender as gracefully as you can to as many moments as you can …

And when you can’t, accept that too

And then focus on something that makes you feel good

Excuse me….A glass of Rapitala’ Nero D’Avola is waiting for me

A presto

Mon x