Wedding diary

Our daughter Angel was married yesterday, with her boyfriend Michael. About a year of bureaucratic battle behind that, for Angel’s Italian citizenship, then months of planning and replanning, pencilling in and rubbing out of appointments, inviting of guests and...
The song

The song

Here we are: summer’s gone, and our 20th Summer Festival, entitled “Celebration”, is now a memory. By now, that wonderful month has moved to the land where the air breathes differently, and time is a whole other ballgame… In Italian, the festival had a subtitle, “ci...
GIVING THANKS

GIVING THANKS

I’m told there’s a Chinese curse that says, “May you live in interesting times”. Omicron knocking on many doors, confusion, misunderstandings, polemics, both local and global. Some digging in, others giving up— these are indeed “interesting times”. Here at la Luna,...
Apocrypha Now

Apocrypha Now

It always stuck with me, that encouraging phrase of Jesus in the Gospel according to Thomas: “That light within will save you, if you bring it forth from yourselves.” In the fifth century AD, the church authorities refused the gnostic Gospels, declaring them...