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goodbye blue sky The premature spring weather continued this morning complete with a steady rain. Snow was nothing more than a memory as I drove home and I was happy to see that car still looked clean in the rain. Once I was home part of the afternoon was spent helping my landlord fix the doorbell problem that had been happening on and off for the past few weeks. It seems that some bare wires behind the switch were the cause of the problem, so I don't have to worry about any more humming when I am trying to sleep. So often people amaze and mystify me. What I mean is that I am torn between my cynicism and innocence. On the one hand, I very seldom trust most people any more than I can physically throw them, yet I also know that there has to be something that keeps humanity from self-destructing. I guess that all of this comes from hearing what each of my coworkers has to say about each other in their absence. Each day I get to hear them complain and after a time I grow tired of it. Oh, I am guilty of it as well, but I try not to be. My knowledge of Italy is slowly growing as I absorb everything from its history and customs to its geography. Whenever I read about a foreign country I am struck by how closed we keep the worlds that we create for ourselves. Supposedly with the tecnology of today the world is shrinking, but on a more personal level it doesn't seem to be happening. I imagine that there are people who live and die without having ever having ventured more than a hundred miles from where they were born. Maybe this is a little extreme, but I am sure that the percentage of Americans who never leave the country is fairly high. Personally I don't think that a cruise to the Bahamas or a hop over the border into Mexico counts as a real cultural experience. I mean both of those areas lack the centuries of history that Europe and Asia have to offer. I wouldn't say that I am a world traveller, but I hope to change that in the coming years.
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