![]() ![]() Free to go Free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth. There’s the visceral aspect too – the huntress who is free. Under the Tuscan Sun Fresh from her no fault California divorce, San Francisco writer Frances Mayes (Diane Lane) is about to have her life turned around when her pregnant friend Patti (Sandra Oh) gives her a first class ticket to Tuscany, Italy. You open as in childhood and – for a time – receive this world. ![]() You become a godlike creature full of choice free to visit the stately pleasure domes make love in the morning sketch a bell tower read a history of Byzantium stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna dei fusi. Even better if you speak the language you catch nuances and make more contact with people. Language becomes simply a musical background for watching bicycles zoom along a canal calling for nothing from you. ![]() When travelling you have the delectable possibility of not understanding a word of what is said to you. What makes these people who they are Could I feel at home here No one expects you to have the stack of papers back by Tuesday or to check messages or to fertilize the geraniums or to sit full of dread in the waiting room at the protologist’s office. “When you travel you become invisible if you want. ![]()
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