If There Is One Lesson Rome Teaches,

Sometimes I Think That Just Not Thinking Of Oneself Is A Form Of Prayer. . .

Grief Does Not End And Love Does Not Die And Nothing Fills Its Graven Place. With Grace, Pain Is Transmuted Into The Gold Of Wisdom And Compassion And The Lesser Coin Of Muted Sadness And Resignation; But Something Leaden Of It Remains, To Become The Kernel Arond Which More Pain Accretes (a Black Pearl): One Pain Becomes Every Other Pain ... Unless One Strips Away, One By One, The Layers Of Pain To Get To The Heart Of The Pain - And This Causes More Pain, Pain So Intense As To Feel Like Evisceration.

It's Perfectly Possible To Hate One's Fat And To Love One's Body At The Same Time.

I Love Cloisters, Which Are The Architectural Equivalent Of A Theological Concept: Perfect Freedom Within Set Boundaries.

Rome Is All Things High And Low. It Is Like God, It Accommodates So Much.