Date: Sunday, April 04, 2010 Time: 7:46 AM
BACK FROM RIVA AND BETTER THAN EVER. THIS WHOLE THING IS GOING TO BE SPLIT INTO SECTIONS. THIS ONE IS THE AFTERMATH. OR RATHER POST-RIVA FEELINGS. ITS SORT OF THIS FEELING YOU GET INSIDE YOUR HEART THAT YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS. BELOW IS THE EXCERPT I GOT OF CHERYL'S BLOG AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT I WANNA SAY. "I want to stay in Italy, to eat gelato all day and grow fat on pasta for appetisers and chocolate mousse for dessert. I want to gawk at beautiful Italian men and women, and sing everyday in the room with (too) good acoustics in the hotel. I want to shiver in giuseppe and pick flowers to put in my hair. But most of all, I want to be with the MJChoir, singing alongside with them , meaning everything that we sing and knowing that ultimately we'd enjoy the music we make. " AND BELOW ARE TWO UNTITLED POEMS I THOUGHT OF WHEN ON THE BUS TO MILAN- I SAVED IT IN MY PHONE. WET COBBLESTONE STREETS GLISTENING MAGNIFICENT GOTHIC CHURCH CARVINGS CLEAR GLASS CEILINGS, THE SUN SHINING THE COLD CRISP MILANO AIR BLOWING FASHIONABLE ITALIANS WALKING LUSCIOUS MOUNTAINS OF GELATO, INVITING SUCH IS THE BEAUTY OF MILAN TO LEAVE SUCH A MAGICAL PLACE ONE THAT MEMORY WILL EVENTUALLY ERASE LEAVES ME WANTING TO REMEMBER ALL OF IT WITH EVERY FIBRE OF MY BODY I WILL LOVE RIVA FOR ALL ETERNINTY MOUNTAINS THAT WERE ONCE SEEMINGLY AT HAND NOW ARE A MERE FAINT SHADOW ON THE LAND THE BREEZE ONCE COOL AND REFRESHING NOW IS SLOWLY AND SILENTY VANISHING MEMORIES SO CLEARLY ETCHED IN OUR MIND SEEM TO GROW MISTY WITH TIME |