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| View toward the Eiffel Tower and dome of the Invalides at sunset from near Place Saint Michel, Paris. Photo (c) Capturing Paris |
Were this a status update on Facebook, I’d disclose to you that my relationship with Paris is ’complicated’.
I’ve spent my adult life living, working, dreaming, photographing and writing about Venice. She and I go back a long way.
I’ve been cold in Venice.
I’ve been homesick and alone there.
I’ve celebrated birthdays in Venice in almost every decade that I’ve been alive.
I’ve overcome some of my greatest professional challenges in Venice.
I know her language, I’m familiar with her curves and her corners, with her moods and her sometimes frighteningly deserted darkness.
We’ve been part of each for so long that I feel a little bit like I’m cheating on a long-time love, on an ageing but still beautiful muse.
I’ve been cold in Venice.
I’ve been homesick and alone there.
I’ve celebrated birthdays in Venice in almost every decade that I’ve been alive.
I’ve overcome some of my greatest professional challenges in Venice.
I know her language, I’m familiar with her curves and her corners, with her moods and her sometimes frighteningly deserted darkness.
We’ve been part of each for so long that I feel a little bit like I’m cheating on a long-time love, on an ageing but still beautiful muse.
I’m literally at the beginning of my love affair with Paris, the part of the story when Paris is so shiny and so new.…and just so pretty.
…But I'm beginning to realise that the heart is expansive and that love can be infinite.
…So maybe I can fall for Paris and remain faithful to my first beloved.
A moment of love
A dream
A laugh
A kiss
A cry
Our rights
Our wrongs
A moment of love
A dream
A laugh
A moment of love
Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
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