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[26 Jul 2003|08:52am] |
good morning from dubrovnik!
i am awake!
yes, mercies are new every morning, some mornings more evident than others.
today i depart to bari, italy, and then a night train up to switzerland.
this place is amazing, my favorite so far, and the place where i learned what love really is (more on that later).
but i am looking forward to getting on the road (or the sea) again and meeting more people...
God is good.
i spent the morning walking through old town and went to the farmer´s market they have every morning...
all these little old men and women smiling at you to buy their fruit and flowers.
for about $3 i got 2 bundles of grapes, nectarines, and a bundle of flowers..not bad.
and good grapes.
it was somewhat nice to be amongst the locals doing their local thing.
we ate last night at cafe orahan, the seaside restaurant just above our little pier that we have become so attached to...we thought we should treat ourselves.
it was right at sunset, and the fort on the right and the old town walls to the left...
we were happy campers.
per my gamma´s request, i have begun to write a book.
when this will be completed is unknown, probably not until i am old.
but i wrote the first chapter.
i do not want to start telling all that my book is about, for i do not even know if it will be fiction, autobiographical, nonfiction...i would say more autobiographical, i think.
in the most beautiful of places, i have experienced some of my lowest lows.
ironic.
but that has brought on the clarity.
being away from home, experiencing certain things, croatia has been the place where i think i have truly, for the first time, been able to define (intellectually) what love is to me.
always thought i could before, but i was wrong...and i am sure it will be an ongoing process.
and i do not mean romantic love, i mean love towards people in general.
i have learned why knowing someone intimately changes everything.
there is this bench in vienna that knows it all.
i think i would like to bronze that bench and put it in my garden one day.
somethings are just too sacred for words (i know i keep saying that, but it is too true), so maybe you will just have to wait and read the book one day.
cheers.
"i have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. in this world you will have trouble. but take heart! I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD." JOHN 16:33
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