Marin Hope
Dwell
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking these past few months about the word dwell. That word implies much more than just living somewhere. Is a dwelling place and a home the same thing? To me, it’s almost as if to dwell somewhere, you have to take on that place; to inhabit it’s nuances, structures, habits. But how do we have a dwelling place through a season of travel? Some days all you want is to go…
What I’ve Been Working On
I have to keep reminding myself how different my life is right now. I live in Italy, take only one class at a time each month, and have 3-day weekends to travel to some of Europe’s most beautiful places. Compared to my life at school, I have all the time in the world here in Italy… yet I find the hours of each day filling up with conversations, cafés, and wandering the streets of Orvieto. Two and…
Roma
Rome.
I’m not sure how one blog post can accurately describe a weekend spent in such a magnificent, history-packed city. I still can’t even comprehend everything I got to see and experience just the other weekend… let me just say, visual overload is a real thing (have you been to the Vatican?!). This city has Bernini sculptures just out and about town, fountains casually standing in the middle of…
Orvieto So Far
Ciao friends!
Thanks for visiting this little blog of mine! It’s hard to believe that I’ve been in Italy for 3 weeks already. While it still kind of feels like I’ve been gone for about 3 days, I simultaneously feel like I’ve been here for 3 months. Either way, I can’t express how thankful I am that I get to call Orvieto, a small town between two gorgeous valleys in Umbria, home for these next…
