Family Vacation : Paris Edition
Family vacations are a whirlwind - especially in a completely foreign environment with only a week to explore. The Catanzaritis made the most out of their time in Paris, packing in about as much of the sights as possible - and then some. A bateau ride, museums, prix fixe dinners, and even Versailles - have a look into their very first trip abroad.
Poetry by Giuseppe Catanzariti.
An idle curiosity is born from
The prose of quotidian living
Piquing the mind at first
And then ever swelling
A nascent snowball cascading down a
Precipitous mountainside
Its momentum ever growing
Until it is time to go
Human creation in all its splendor
And in all its handwrought glory
Enters the soul through the eyes
Before taking up a permanent
And warm residence in the heart
Where it is nurtured forever
Mementos for those who
Couldn’t come along
And for the itinerant patrons too
Simple physical keepsakes
To stimulate happy recollections
Palatial monuments to the
Grandeur of revered leaders
Of finished states stand today
Despite the vicissitudes of time
So that every man might learn
That every man is born a king
Merrymaking is mortal
But memories are eternal
Never dying but ever growing
The towers and the churches
Beheld and felt firsthand
Are but earthly monuments
While experiences are cosmic
There can be no going back
Not as the same person
Left behind back home
As home has become nothing
More than a slippery notion
In our newfound selves
