Happy Easter to you all from the forest! As I enter my last week here at Sitka, I feel as free as I had ever been in the last weeks. I am soaking up all the magic around me, walking, dancing, listening, meeting new friends, and napping wrapped in the Northwestern sun. I am taking…
Author: Altea
Flying lessons
As spring unrolls, so do my travels… and just like everybody’s, they will be quite different from what I imagined even one week ago! I spent the last 10 days going down a rabbit hole of researching, figuring out how the US immigration rules work (my ESTA permit is expiring soon), gathering informations on border…
Treasures in the sink
Life at the Sitka Center has changed size, moves and color as most residents left, leaving me and Brie Schettle here with the spruces and hemlocks. And rain came back… to keep us company I guess. Eli Neuman-Hammond and Melinda Hurst Frye left on Tuesday, Joanna Priestley and Ebenezer Galluzzo on Wednesday. Now the campus…
Non c’è vita che per un attimo non sia stata immortale
Today I was hit by a wave of sorrow, as I realized how many lives this virus is bringing away, and how much pain it is leaving behind. Someone from Italy told me on the phone, that the time for singing is over… That now it is all about waiting for all this, to storm…