ONE: Travel to wonderland Use the rabbit hole. Go where the magic is: visit Disneyland or the Harry Potter Studios or Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, fly a kite on the beach, spend a week in an old mill in the middle of nowhere, camp in the desert and bathe in the Milky Way at night. Travel back to yourself. Recapture the world as it looked before you grew up and started being reasonable about things. TWO: Return to your happy place You must have one. A cabin, a lake, a farmhouse in a vineyard, a specific city in a specific season, a table with a particular view, maybe a person.…
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BUT FIRST WE FLORENCE IN STYLE
It is that time of the year. Grape harvest season means Toscana for the happy few. Two weeks of the slow, artful, almost timeless happiness in the Tuscan countryside. But first we Florence in style. When Stendhal visited Florence for the first time, he experienced a one-time feeling: a mixture of amazement, beatitude and exhilaration that proved literally overwhelming. He was dizzy and confused and sick with emotion, while physically incapable of leaving the city. I felt it too, my first time in Firenze: the allure, the wonder, the perfect beauty and the inconceivable happiness of just being there. You know that special tension you feel when you’re desperately in love,…