The Slow Movement
The image above is the interior of the Basilica of Saints John and Paul on the Coelian Hill. The lines here were not 3 hours and yet it is filled with beauty and stories eloquent more than enough to feed our lives. There has been a slow food movement for a long time now, with the idea that food that is produced with care locally has a healthier stamp on the planet and often in our guts too. Back home in Toronto I've noticed the proliferation of headphones, often the in-ear type being worn on the streets with some signs of lesser attentiveness to surroundings that such accoutrements can facilitate. I've necessarily seen too much of people bumping into one another but I've seen more than one near miss with a vehicle. Refreshingly, here people seem to be more interested in or are able to be more directly sociable with one another. I've been visiting Rome through the years since 1996 when I had my first encounter with the Eternal City. It was dirtier and arguably t
