I’m re-surrecting and updating my post from a year ago…
Out with the Old, In with RE-New!!
re – a prefix, occurring originally in loan words from Latin, used with the meaning “again” or “again and again” to indicate repetition. (dictionary.com)
Re-member, re-collect, re-solve, re-discover, re-invent, re-vise, re-invigorate, re-infuse, re-lease, re-vive, re-create, re-view, re-start, re-do, re-visit…re-joice!
Re-flecting on 2014 – It’s Been Re-markable!
Lose weight, exercise more, spend less, clean out the (fill in the blank), eat healthier, take a class and learn how to (fill in the blank), start (fill in the blank), quit (fill in the blank)… Sound familiar?
Ah, the ubiquitous New Year’s Resolutions! Make ’em, break ’em! Re-make ’em…over and over…or, maybe not…
For years I dutifully wrote my goals down with a determined re-solve! Then I realized that most of them sounded oddly familiar…because they were re-peated from the prior year! Oh dear…sigh…what now?
*** Time to re-flect without re-gret! ***
Well, I have a proposition for you (and me!) based on this definition of re-solution: (derived from Latin resolvere) – to review, undo, let go. And since re-solve is defined as making a firm or earnest decision about something…
I propose that rather than re-peat the old, that we make a firm decision to bring a sense of re-newal and sparkle to every day! Forget that long daunting list…just a little something…every day! Now, won’t that be fun?
…And 2015 Promised to Be Re-ally Fabulous, Too!
First, let’s re-flect, with a nice dose of gratitude, on all that was fabulous in 2014. It’s easy to go to the guilty place about all that we didn’t do; all that woulda-coulda-shoulda stuff, isn’t it? Yeh, me too! Well, let’s re-lease that and, re-focus on all that fabulous…wow! Re-markable!
So, let’s start there, let’s re-fine our 2015 re-solutions and not only re- surrect those dreams, but embrace new ones!
And, of course, I have to bring up travel, don’t I? I encourage you to start a new travel tradition. Armchair or otherwise, give those imaginations new life. Make a way, find a way…dream, plan, let’s go!!
Thank YOU for being a part of my 2014 travel dreams!
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- Come with friends, make friends!
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- Olive Oil Tour & Tasting
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- WIne tasting together
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- Visit the land of the “trulli”
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- Enjoy being with a small group
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- ALL meals are included!
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- Warm & welcoming Masseria Provenzani
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- More Lecce baroque!
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- Gelato time!
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- Gallipoli, city of the fishermen
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- Pizza Night!
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- Pizza Night!
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- Pizza Night!
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- Pizza Night!
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- Welcome to the Puglia Wine School
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- Olive oil sampling
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- Enjoy guided walks & tours
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- Cartapesta with Antonio
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- Salute!
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- Fun in the kitchen!
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- In the kitchen with Mamma Giulia
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- Mmmm, I can also smell it now…
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- Cooking, eating & wine tasting together!
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- Savor Salento Style!
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- Benvenuti! We can’t wait to be your hosts next spring!
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- Service with a smile!
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- Having a delicious time!
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- Gino, one of our friendly hosts.
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- Grazie Otravio!
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- Pizza Margherita- buono!
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- How to choose…?
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- Olive oil tasting with Donato!
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- The trulli are truly amazing!
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- Picturesque medieval villages…
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- I can almost smell the delcious aroma, can’t you?
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- Cooking with Mamma & Michele!
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- Michele is on duty!
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- Trying our hand at local specialties.
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- Gelato time! Meet Gabrielle.
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- Meet Luca!
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- Meet local artisans…
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- Expert guides & welcoming locals.
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- Fresh ricotta cheese!
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- Meet Cosima & Luigi, local cheese makers..
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- Cook with Mammas!
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- Meet Yle & Mamma Anna!
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- I’ll be waiting for you!
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- Relax by the pool…
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- Cooking together is so much fun!
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- Enjoy the local life!
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- Touring Ancient Rome
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- Carapina was on my list…
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- Grazie!
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- A find on Campo Di Fiori
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- Caruso personifies gelato artiginali
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- A shy gelataio.
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- Served with a smile!
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- Join Me, Yle, Michele & Mamma Giulia in Puglia!
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- Luca expertly portions the dough. Photo: M. Wade
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- A friendly staff…
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- Meet Cosima & Luigi…
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- Does it get any fresher? Molto Buono!
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- Francesca describes & pours…
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- Carlo takes us to the ancient cellars…
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- Local & congenial local experts…
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- Touring the colossal Colosseum!
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- Our wonderful group
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- Salute! And grazie!
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- Won’t you revisit “The Great Beauty” with me?
Il paese che muore, “the town that is dying”, is the rather bleak description of
