Things from home
A friend of mine recently moved to New Zealand and a post on her blog reminded me of how hard it can be to adjust to a completely new environment when there are no familiar things in sight. She is still waiting for her belongings to arrive after three months.
I never really think about it, but my home is filled with both things new and old, from this life and the one before. And every time I return to Italy, I bring back something new that is actually meant to be old, to remind me of that other time and place. So, alongside the Japanese books and stickers, the spindles, and the web development equipment, I keep around an assortment of things that provide the comfort of what used to be familiar.
Reproduction of an old-style jug from Faenza in the living room.
Glass paperweight from a trip to Venezia.
Hanging on my office wall.
More old-style jugs from Faenza in the kitchen.
These are reproductions of tiles from the "pavimento Vaselli" in San Petronio in Bologna.