Flourish and Nourish in Pantelleria

Caper Flowers awaiting to part their scent into vodka, "Bloody Maria." Today I had the fortune of hearing my grandmother's voice.  Not her real voice. She has been dead for nearly 25 year...

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Picnic area at the top of Montagna Grande. The only cool place to escape the summer heat on the island is no-longer. Sunday morning surrounding  the picnic are a blaze view from my garden...

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Gust(O) 23 March 2016, Chiesa Madre, Pantelleria Very strong Ponente winds rushed the island from the west, bringing a much needed rain following three days of a scorching Scirocco wind. T...

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We had a dear friend come to visit a couple of weeks ago. She brought Lily a wonderful gift: Mad Libs. I remember spending hours laughing with friends at the ridiculous combinations we crafted t...

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A few weeks ago we were invited to a barbecue by a roaming band of Americans here on the island. Well into the evening, all eyes were affixed to the small television tucked on a shelf in the cor...

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HELEN KELLER WROTE TO MARK TWAIN AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE IN 1904..."DO TRY TO REACH THROUGH THE GRIEF AND FEEL THE PRESSURE OF HER HAND, AS I REACH THROUGH DARKNESS AND FEEL THE SMILE ON MY ...

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Every day we stand upon cliffs of monotony, from whose heights we can only vaguely see the valleys of new chances. The clarity is clouded by our own sense of ambiguity and confusion, all terr...

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Coast Guard from Pantelleria rescuing refugees from their wooden boat trapped on the rocks April 13, 2011 WHO ARE HUMANS?     The reflection of the Eternal Light. What is the world?   ...

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Within the ambiguous ubiquitous setting of the sky If you leave I perish, sun's set to its rise Meeting at their daily blending junction Where the self is forgotten. Perceptions of pleas...

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ON A BRIGHT SUNNY DECEMBER DAY, A SWEET LITTLE GIRL LIVING IN PANTELLERIA DID SAY, TO HER SELF BARELY ALOUD, WHILE IN HER SECRET FORT ALL COVERED BY PURPLE, ORANGE, AND WHITE WOVEN BOUGAINVILLEA ...

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Welcome to Cantina Minardi,  It is a pleasure to prepare dinner and a tasting of the wines made in this cantina in honor of the PassItaly event. It is an honor to introduce you to one of the ...

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Perhaps an important element of paradise is the difficulty of actually getting there. It keeps the riff-raff out, and by "riff-raff," I mean people who don't come to a place to really appre...

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"After the fire, The fire still burns, The heart grows older but never ever learns. Memories smolder, The soul still yearns, After the fire, the fire still burns."        ...

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My parents didn't attend church. They didn't belong to one, and I never heard either express that it was something that they missed or wanted. When I was four, though, I was baptized. Someone (r...

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April's dawn here in Pantelleria is like walking around under the light of a full moon. Silence for what seems an elongated moment, then it starts. One singular peep pierces the egg of quiet and...

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Desire stems from Dreams and Fantasies Dream: "to take fish from the water and eat them RAW " is interpreted in Arabic dream text as: "soon profits, or an appointment to a high ranking posi...

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Meet Mascarpone, one of six new sheep herders  Lily had a 3 day break from school to honor Carnevale festivities. Amy and I had to go handle some business in Trapani. The business was far f...

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THANK YOU PINO, PANTESCAN  FARMING TRADITONS AT WORK It is a blustery Friday in mid January. Driving the impossibly curvy roads at the pace required by their complexity allows the afternoon...

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Domenica mattina ci siamo svegliati e ci siamo preparati per affrontare, insieme a centinaia di altri isolani, qualcosa che non avremmo mai voluto fare. Lo abbiamo fatto tutti, sebbene nessuno ...

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"Just the bracts, Jack" Subconscious motivational methods: Nobody eats until the day's allotment of oregano is sbriciolato!  Spend time on the island of Pantelleria and you will find that ...

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This Sunday morning we woke and prepared ourselves to do something we felt compelled to do, along with hundreds of other people on the island.  We all did it, though not one person wanted to. ...

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THE EVOLVING LEGEND OF ORIGANO DI PANTELLERIA   Our little family holds oregano in high regard. Wild oregano, origanum vulgaris, literally saved Amy's life when she contracted C. Diff from a...

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How are Lily and Peter transitioning to life in Italy? To life on the island of Pantelleria?  This is the predominant question posed by our friends. Amy has been speaking Italian (as well as se...

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Pantescan Dawn A compilation of photographs from select sunrise moments in Campobello, Pantelleria, Italy. Poems and thoughts provided by masterful wordsmiths whose works we have been blessed ...

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