I’m in the midst of preparing for my trip to Italy, starting on Sunday.
Preparing for travel includes packing, which I started last night.
Preparing also includes learning about my future destination while also being present, here and now, to deal with many issues at work. Typically, when I am preparing to go away, people prodigiously add to my work load the week before my vacation,
Do you see preparing in my images for today?
On Client’s Day and International Clients Day I’m preparing to work with many clients in individual therapy and group. And after work, I’ll be preparing for my trip with a manicure/pedicure.
Because of cognitive distortions like catastrophizing, I am also preparing for my trip by noticing things that might go wrong, including a sore thumb (from blogging on my phone?), a sensitive tooth, and possible issues with my vision. Part of my preparing also means packing my medication, my portable blood monitor, and injections in case my INR goes too low.
I’m also preparing to visit Rome by watching this video recommended to me by an artist I know:
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Now I’m preparing for your comments about this post.
Are you preparing for my gratitude?
How wonderful and amazing (to me) that you are heading to Italy on Sunday, only a few days from now. I hope that all your preparations go smoothly and that you have an uncomplicated and dazzling adventure.
Thank you for another dazzling comment, Maureen.
No fair loading up so you can leave for vacation, those work people! Have fun getting ready for Italy, Ann.
Thank you, my always fair-minded friend.
Take something for your neck, which will get a little strained from all the looking up. In Italy, I never met a painted ceiling I didn’t love ALSO, in Florence, don’t miss the San Marco Monastery, which was virtually wallpapered by Fra Angelico. I was stunned upon entering to see the Visitation painted, as I remember, at the head of the stairs leading to the monks’ cells (no monks remain). A favorite painting I remembered from art history classes sprang to life in front of me.
And it may be too late to suggest, but the train from Rome to Florence also stops at Assissi, where Giotto painted a life of St. Francis in the basilica. It was there that I began to understand how illiterate country people connected with the Church through panels like these depicting people like themselves. Just an idea.
And in Venice – just walk. Get lost. Best advice I can give you.
I appreciate how you are helping me in preparing for my trip, Barbara.
We were pleasantly surprised by the Church of Santa Croce in Florence (the one with a big star of David way up above the entrance). Fancy tombs of famous people inside.
Good to know, Debbie. Thanks!
As an old Latin student I’m amazed how much history Rome has even after the fall of its infamous empire and I hope you’ll have a wonderful time. Also since it’s Butt Kicking Day that reminds me of when I worked in customer service and a guy named Steve regularly called. He always told me he was “busier than a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest”. It sounds like that’s how you feel now. But I believe you’ll be ready.
You’re always kicking butt here, my friend.
Where in Italy are you going, Ann?
Rome, Florence, and Venice.