🌟Big Magic on the Beach🌟🐚🐠

I have a love affair with the sea, it's been ongoing ever since I was a little girl, I simply adore everything about it: it's color, it's everrepeting, relaxing sound, and most of all it's glorious scent.  Which enters through my nostrils and feeds my soul.

Today I am lucky enough to find myself on a lovely beach snoozing and reading an excellent book, which I try to read ever so slowly since I don't want it to finish, I am talking about Elizabeth Gilbert's "Big Magic". A great read, intertaining, since I love the way she writes and sooo very inspirational for what I decided to do: start to write in earnest. Write, write, write my blog and finally finish my second book! A book that talks about food and dreams all sprinkled with just the right dose of star dust. Cannot wait, but in the meantime I will not forget to savor and enjoy every special moment that life has to offer'🙏⭐️✨⭐️✨⭐️✨⭐️✨⭐️✨⭐️✨⭐️

On a Starry Night🌟

...wow..so much time has passed since my last post...so much has changed. Today here I find myself back in Italy, precisely on the Adriatic coast, in a small village on the sea called Numana.

 Life is good, the scent of the sea is mixed with the sweet flavor of the local red wine and the sublime taste of the freshly fished sea food. These are some of the joys life has to offer and I am here ready to take them all in and share them with all of you! 

Here is a photo of this restaurant I was lucky enough to try out tonight. 

The food is delicious and the location stunning! 

Enjoy folks, always

enjoy!

Enjoying the Delights of a Slow and Joyful Life

Well, here we go...

This morning after two hours of kundlini yoga I got the right inspiration and decided to start up my blog!

Here I am now eager to share with all of you tips, recipes, thoughts and everything else that makes life wonderful.  I chose to call the blog "Dancing Barefoot" not because I get to do it very often, being a mother of two, a Waldorf first grade assistant, and a writer, I don't get to dance barefoot ( unless it's on the kitchen floor!) but because it is one of the things I most love to do when I go home to Italy...feel the warm sand under my feet and ... dance. Being Italian, I guess I could say that I have an innate passion for food and cooking. Especially this time of the year, (in Michigan where we live it is already quite cold) my favorite thing is to make a fire in our wood burning stove and cook in my kitchen, which we just recently painted red, and what red...apple spice red!     

What is more beautiful than the color red during Autumn, the red of the leaves of the sugar maples, the red of the sumac on the trails, the red of the apples, and the red of the sky at sunrise, what beauty...

                   

"...Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

It is not a mouth thirsting nor a hand stretched forth,

But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted. 

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,

But rather an image you would see though you close your eyes

and a song you hear though you shut your ears."

                                                     Kahlil Gibran