October 25, 2011
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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October 21, 2011 I was passing by the duomo when I snapped this post-wedding scene. What is he thinking???
October 16, 2011 I found the Goat Man in Southeast Sicily near the village of Acate. “Three hundred,” he said when I asked how many he had.
He lit a Pall Mall and we watched the animals prance across the road.
They weren’t fast enough for the Goat Man. He lost patience.
I climbed back into the car, watched the Goat Man wave around a stick, and continued on to Acate. *** October 11, 2011 Two years ago my friend Angela had the symbol of Sicily inked upon her.
She had come to one of those major crossroads in life, the kind where you step into scary, unknown territory. She wanted to celebrate the moment. Stamping the symbol of Sicily on her skin seemed appropriate, she explains, because in recreating herself, she had to start the inside, from her island roots. She choose a baroque, feminine interpretation of the traditional trinacria (see flag below).
What is the trinacria, you may ask? The Kingdom of Trinacria–literally the Kingdom of the Triangle–is an old name for Sicily. The traditional Sicilian flag has three legs (representing the triangular island), three stalks of wheat (representing the breadbasket that is Sicily), and Medusa’s face. Medusa was a monster who is used as a talisman on Sicily’s flag to protect the island from evil.  The Trinacria on Sicily's Flag XXXXXXX How have you celebrated or marked a major crossroads in your life? *** Click to subscribe to BaroqueSicily.
October 6, 2011 Computers aren’t big here. Nor is the internet. Email is seen as a nuisance, and you will rarely get a response from a Sicilian when you send one. (“I don’t check my email,” they explain.) There’s only one small internet “point” in the village, and one pizzeria with semi-functioning wireless. People do not bring their laptops to cafes. Except me. “Ah,” exclaim people I meet for the first time. “I know you! You’re the Lady with the Computer.”  The Lady with the Computer Yes, my Apple and I are inseparable. Thank you, Steve Jobs. You helped this Luddite embrace the computer age, and for that I was always a little in love with you.
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