photography by Susa Silvermarie

Impermanence

Graves stretch past my eye, every grave with a face, a photograph of life as the dead once lived it....

Salento Wine-Making Cooperative

Salento Wine-Making Cooperative

Yesterday I enjoyed a tour of the wine-making cooperative of Maduria in the Salento region of Italy. I’m a newbie...

Linking Past and Future

Linking Past and Future

Lecce is an ancient city. In the Roman era, the she-wolf gave the city its name, Lupiae and later, the...

Madre Dolorosa, Archetype for our Times

Madre Dolorosa, Archetype for our Times

Easter week here in southern Italy and elsewhere is the time of dramatizing the Passion of Christ. In Ostuni this...