Christmas in Amsterdam (and finally seeing Eat, Pray, Love)
December 25, 2010 by sketchbloom
Christmas Day finds me in Amsterdam this year, on my way to Milano. Internet access may be intermittent the next few weeks, and while I plan to do art and sketch (well, as much sketching as subzero temperatures will allow), I won’t have my scanner so the quality of the drawings, collages and whatever else I may do will not be pristine, so bear with me. After all, this is the beauty of traveling: not having your usual environs, trappings and equipment leads to creative problem solving and a bit of experimenting (even though, judging from my luggage, it sure does look like I am carrying all my trappings :P). I plan to use a very nifty feature I discovered in WordPress: post by SMS (text). I am not sure my Italian sim card will allow me to use my Android phone as modem or that I will have internet on it, but I sure will be able to text so I am looking forward to post some impressions of Milano in winter, maybe even some life ephipanies (ha!).
For now I want to leave with some quotes I took down from the movie Eat, Pray , Love (don’t judge, it was playing on the plane and I happen to dig the author, as I mentioned before):
Italy:
Americans know entertainment, but they don’t know pleasure.
In Italy we have the expression ‘dolce far niente’ ; the sweetness of doing nothing.
Maybe you are a woman in search of a word.
Ruin is a gift. Ruin leads to transformation and evolution.
Bali:
Learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes, or with your head.
Meditate while smiling. Smile not just with your face, smile with your head. Smile even with your liver.
India:
You don’t have to be married or have children to have a family.
You have to learn to select your thoughts everyday, just as you select the clothes you are going to wear everyday.
God dwells within me. As me.
To live is to trust.
What if you had the capacity one day to love the whole world?
…..
A Merry, Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Let’s hope is a good one
Without any fear.
(And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?)
Here is to new beginnings without old nonsenses.
Here is to lots of art and growth (and lots of good things to share)
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Buon Natale….hope you Are enjoying Milano ! :*
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Ciao Miti! 🙂
I wish you a very merry christmas and that you spend an amazing time with your family and beloved ones! I also wish you lots of art 😉
I also watched the movie on the plane (in 3 parts :P) and thought about you because of the talk by the author of the book you had shown me when we were in this cafe on college avenue… hehe 🙂
Lots of love!!
Mayssa
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