A Journey Worth Taking

I decided to write today's article a little earlier than I have been. For the people in Ontario it is just after 7am, for us it Parker's nap time. To be honest, I have been more stressed lately than normal. Every once in a while I get like this and I just have to wait the pain in my stomach out as it eventually goes away.

While on one of our many walks around Milano Due, I passed a lemon tree and knew that there was an Italian proverb about these trees. While on another walk yesterday I noticed an older woman who stopped at the lemon tree and took a sniff of one of the lemons. It made me think that the proverb when translated into English was to make sure you take the time to smell the lemon tree. Now, I could be completely wrong but I choose not to care as this is what I want it to be. So, I will make sure to stop and smell the lemon tree on our daily walks more often.

I am not sure if many of you have see the movie Rudy before, but it is one of my favourite movies. I mention this because it was on yesterday afternoon, in Italian. I watched it for about 15 minutes as we were about to leave for another walk. It just happened to be one of the best parts of the movie. For those of you who have not seen the movie it is about a guy from a small town who absolutely loves Notre Dame football. He tries to get into the University but does not and must go to a smaller school close to Notre Dame. For two years, he tries his best to transfer to Notre Dame by studying as hard as he can. After each semester he would receive a letter from Notre Dame that they could still not except him into the University. Eventually, after four semesters and ALOT of hard work he receives a letter that let him know that all of his hard work had finally paid off. I am not sure why it meant so much more to me yesterday than it had before but it did. I know that Rudy must to have wanted to quite after each time he received one of those letters but he never did. He always went on.

A couple of days ago my wife and I, with Parker decided to take a different path around Milano Due. We figured that we would do a little bit of exploring while we were here. That is how we found the Fidaty grocery store last week. However, this time we did not find much of anything other than alot of green grass.

We took a dirty, rocky road past some farm land in hopes to reach a commercial area in which we thought we saw about a kilometer away. When we got there we did find a residential area. As we continued to walk we found a walking path which we took until it led us to an industrial area. As we passed through the industrial area we came to a road that lead two ways. Left took us to the main road and right to us back to the residential area we originally came from. If we continued to go straight we would be heading back to Milano Due through a long field with a make-shift pathway. As a result, we chose to go left hoping that there would be a sidewalk by the road.

When we finally arrived at the main road we were disappointed that there was not a side walk and traffic was much too busy to attempt walking on the shoulder. As a result, we went back to the intersection and decided to take the makeshift path through the vast field. It was a good 10-15 minute walk through the field and beside a creek that finally lead us to where the Fidaty grocery store was. So, although we did not find anything new, we did find a very long way to the grocery store.

If you want to view the article from last year on this date, click here.