Comments on: Sunday Scribblings: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello

By: michelle

michelle — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:43:28 +0000

Hugs to you, Pam…would be lovely to meet indeed! xx

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:19:50 +0000

So beautifully written by a wonderful, loving, and courageous soul, so happy that I have met you in cyberspace Michelle, who knows maybe some day in person…which would be very nice! Hugs! Ciao!

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:41:56 +0000

So it had nothing to do with the boy friend? Just wondering.

Nope; I met Paolo after I had been here for a year and a half, and had no boyfriend in either country when I moved.

By: Anza

Anza — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:54:07 +0000

Came across this the very night I arrived in Albany w/ Valentina. It feels very strange to be moving so far away from my hometown. Am I a New Yorker? Time will tell.

I’m so excited for you move…can’t wait to follow the journey

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:51:35 +0000

It takes a brave person to follow their heart, Michelle!

I have often admired my ancestors who for one reason or another left their countries and crossed the ocean by boat to come to the US a century ago, with little except the promise of a better life. My own husband’s family left a town not far from where you live to do the same the early 60′s.

Why can’t someone from the US do the same and reverse the trip back to Italy? Your life there is a good one and you’re happy! That is reason enough!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:23:56 +0000

This post makes me feel a bit more brave. I’m getting ready to say a very big goodbye and I hope that there will be an even nicer hello not too far away.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:37:43 +0000

Great posting! Calabria or Southern Italy is the antidote to the US — just as the US is the antidote to Italy. I personally need both. Just an old-woman’s point of view.

I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say they are polar opposites, but I can certainly understand appreciating different aspects of life in each place (as I do as well).

By: carol

carol — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:34:07 +0000

michelle,You were among our earliest *inspirations*. We didnt know how or when but we totally knew it was gonna happen. thanks for being a generous resource.

Thanks Carol; it’s been great to follow your journey as well

By: Chandi

Chandi — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:58:28 +0000

Ciao!

I love what you said about how you “did what was expected for so long”
and how you found yourself saying hello “to the real me, the one that I’d been meaning to become.”

I really relate to that. I fell in love with Italy on my first day there when I was 19. I have lived there a few times over the years and I’ve led tours there and organized weddings there for Americans, and in various ways gotten myself over there as much as I can… but I never totally “left” the US for good. And I think it was because there was a part of me that wanted to be very responsible and wanted to do what was expected, and didn’t want to upset my parents.

Now as I am going through a divorce (and I don’t have kids) I wonder if the time is right to finally make that move… I find some encouragement in your blog, so thank you!! I’d love to see you visiting my blog, which right now is mostly about a crazy experience I had in an Italian hospital this summer:
http://italiandreams.wordpress.com

Chandi’s last blog post..On Dying, feeling feelings and body-centered psychotherapy

I look forward to getting to know you better and following your journey

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