Dreaming in Provence
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DREAMING IN PROVENCE
The dream of buying a farmhouse in northern Provence takes us on a light-hearted rollercoaster of neighbor conflict, dentist visits, deportation by border police, wine harvests, tennis exploits, a Renoir-style wedding, colliding particles, and Kafka-esque visa controls. Only glimpsed at the time, it was like my collisions with a unfamiliar culture were gently tutoring me on a different kind of foreign land, that described by Jesus as 'kingdom'. Slowly, I found myself dreaming about heaven on earth: talking less, listening, and loitering moreappreciating 'different' etiquetterolling with the rhythms of rural lifedealing with 'false friends' and enjoying new onesseeing the virtue of not always winningdiscovering what really matters, and what really doesn't....... I might have learned these lessons anywhere. It could have been in Finchley or Philadelphia, but it turned out to be among the lavender fields of France.
The dream of buying a farmhouse in northern Provence takes us on a light-hearted rollercoaster of neighbor conflict, dentist visits, deportation by border police, wine harvests, tennis exploits, a Renoir-style wedding, colliding particles, and Kafka-esque visa controls. Only glimpsed at the time, it was like my collisions with a unfamiliar culture were gently tutoring me on a different kind of foreign land, that described by Jesus as 'kingdom'. Slowly, I found myself dreaming about heaven on earth: talking less, listening, and loitering moreappreciating 'different' etiquetterolling with the rhythms of rural lifedealing with 'false friends' and enjoying new onesseeing the virtue of not always winningdiscovering what really matters, and what really doesn't....... I might have learned these lessons anywhere. It could have been in Finchley or Philadelphia, but it turned out to be among the lavender fields of France.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1399985272
ISBN13:9781399985277
Release Date:May 2024
Publisher:York Publishing Services
Length:120 Pages
Weight:0.28 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"
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