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Benthall Slow Travel's avatar

I love your perspective — thank you for sharing it. Slow traveling through Europe stops me in my tracks often.

I’ll find myself in places of staggering natural beauty, but staying in accommodations that are stripped down to the point of feeling… hollow. Not unbearable, just a strange absence I can’t quite name.

Reading your words helps me see it more clearly — it’s the missing detail, the lack of texture that leaves the space flat instead of alive.

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Sheri Ritchlin's avatar

Ah how beautiful! It takes the eye of the soul to see these things as it did to create them. Thank you!

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Michele Du's avatar

Everything is exquisitely beautiful!😍

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Endless Days of Summer's avatar

I love these small details!

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It's Come To This's avatar

Amazing artifacts.

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Jude's avatar

Absolutely beautiful 😍

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Mary Lee Hillenbrand's avatar

Your lovely photos energize my soul🥰🌈❤️😇🙏🦋

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TD Craig's avatar

The two lamposts speak to me. I often see this juxtaposition, where something ornate from an earlier age is set against something bluntly utilitarian from our own. I reflect that the designers of the latter would hardly get away with such blunt inhumanity were it not for the moderating presence of the older things nearby. Thank heavens for the older things, that's what I say! They remind us that humans are (much much) more than cogs in a big old money-making machine.

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Kelly Vislocky's avatar

I agree that in our quest to be able to produce more faster we lost a beautiful part of ourselves.

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The Savvy Museum Visitor's avatar

I so enjoyed this! Thank you!

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Cassandra's avatar

Gorgeous newsletter. Thank you.

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Susan's avatar

Excellent story. Thank you for these reminders of the beauty surrounding us. 🌺The details.

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Petra Rosemarie Rassl's avatar

Wonderful piece of writing! Thank you!

My favourite quote is by John Keats

„A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER“

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Maristella Tonello's avatar

Articolo meraviglioso sull'importanza dei dettagli che creano pura arte visiva anche sui piccoli oggetti quotidiani e che rendono la vita più piacevole e gradevole,meno monotona a chi li usa. Oggi la ricerca del dettaglio è scomparsa e questo metodo porta alla scomparsa del vivere nel bello, anzi sembra che si faccia di tutto per tendere all'appiattimento dell'esistenza.

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Donna Hoffman's avatar

Wonderful example pics. Beauty, Truth, and Goodness.

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Sheryl White's avatar

Yes, regretfully we have moved away from detail, which I have also taken photos of, mostly I think because it is unexpected anymore, so it is always a surprise when you find it! The ornate detail on the door latch and several of these other items are really cool!

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