Carissim Nipotin,
At this hour you are about to get on the way to Careri. The first
time I took your Mom and your Aunt to Careri was a looooong time ago
but the memory of it has hardly faded. At the time Your bisnonna was
living in the house I grew up in, on Pandora street.I recall it was
fall or winter time and it was cold.
When we went to sleep the wind made music on the windows as it did in
all the years I grew up there.
The house was old and dusty, cobwebs were all over and it was natural
to feel scared when in bed.Both me and your Nonna were not aware of the
fear we put our daughters in when we put them to bed in the room
upstairs. It was years later that both confessed to us of the
nightmares they both had every nite they went to
sleep. The bed sheets felt like wet because of the high humidity and
strange noices came in from all directions.
The cracks in the old widows made the wispering wind sound like music
from an old record. It did not help that the only toilet was downstairs
outside on the little balcony without possibility to access it in the
middle of the nite . You could go to the toilet by an elaborate
sequence of opening and closing doors .You flushed the toilet by
dumping a bucket you filled before going in from the only water faichet
in the house which was located on the little balcony. The view from
this balcony though was so stunning that made almost all these
difficulties look minor. You could see for miles , hundreds?
thousandts? may be milliond it certanly was more than your eyes could
digest all at one time. It certanly was more than you ever seen before
or ever expected to see at any one time.That sight made all the fears
of the nite disappear and a sense of being "being lucky to be there
ensue".This whole experience made the trip an exotic one, brought the
imagined world of fairy tales come to focus and made it real. Yes may
be the world of never never land did exists and it was not so scary
after all. Tha all experience makes you feel you entered a new
dimention .......................and at that point instead of being
scared you cant wait for dawn to come and the nite to follow so you can
experience it again and again. Unfortunately it isnot the same, the
fear is mostly gone
You feel you have grown....older.
Nonno Nonna & aunty Stefie send lots of love to the little angel.
................and lots of kisses too