Yours truly at Chiesa di San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, Milan.
Happy midsummer/glad midsommar! I’m quite low in energy and lost for words lately, so I’ve compiled a photodiary of my pleasant, mostly solitary June. After four years of dissertation-writing with ADHD and stress management issues, I’m burned out to put it lightly! My life in Zurich these days is quiet, reclusive and simple, as I work from my studio apartment and keep social activities to a minimum (I’m having a “boring girl summer”). I will, however, fly to Stockholm via Milan in July for a change of scenery, and then my incredible friend Leona is coming to visit from Canada! I’m also in Marseille for a solo writing retreat most of August, housesitting and cat-sitting for a family. What are your summer (or winter) plans, depending on where you are? Wishing you all a blessed midsummer’s eve, that moon is enchanting. Bisous, x C.
Milan weekend for my birthday
I saw Saint Agatha everywhere on my last trip to Milan! (Saint Agatha of Sicily is often depicted carrying her excised breasts on a platter.)
1. First night at Antica. 2. Mezzie in the elevator. 3. Room aperitivo: burrata, Calabrian sundried tomatoes, Ligurian olives, focaccia, Puglian wine, peaches. (Mez picked some vine leaves from our garden courtyard!) 4. Second afternoon at Antica, view from bed. 5. Saint Agatha in the ancient church of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, originally attached to the most important women’s convent of the Benedictines in the city. 5. Marchesi 1824 (Via Santa Maria alla Porta). 6. Fab sandwich spot. 7. Risotto alla milanese at Trattoria Burla Gio.
Marchesi 1824
Quiet days at home, lots of flowers
1. Framed polaroid of Mack with a Santa Rita of Cascia chain, birthday flowers polaroid, 1943 photo of the bombed Santa Maria delle Grazie, “supplica a san Michele” from Liguria, Belgian tapestry (XVI). 2. Birthday roses from Magda arranged with peonies from the market. 3. Sam and Fredi stopped by for lunch. 4. Birthday vino. 5. Kitchen detail.
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