by David Battistella | Oct 29, 2021 | Italy, spiritual, The way is love, Tradition, wisdom
I love stories like the one I am about to tell you. It is incredible how life unfolds when Christ was involved. The introduction to Timothy Schmalz, a talented sculptor came through a priest, Fr. Antoine Emmanuel Prior at the Badia Fiorentina. He mentioned Timothy...
by David Battistella | Dec 14, 2020 | Italy, spiritual, The way is love, Tradition, wine, wisdom
Christmas 2020 At the heart of the Christmas story is a child born into poverty, in an unconsidered place, to ordinary people who made extraordinary choices. This is the origin of the story, the essence of the season. How can you hate that? I can understand not liking...
by David Battistella | Dec 11, 2020 | spiritual, The way is love, Tradition, wisdom
In January of 2011, I planned to stay in Italy for four months, do a bit of research and head back to North America to resume my life. That changed about three months in for several reasons, but a major one was the food, or more precisely Italian attitude to food. Yes...
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