Monday, 13 November (Day Fifty-seven)
Time is winding down. As it does.
Today we decided to go to Cit Turin, the area that Liat lives in. On the way I suggested Krish pop his head into la Santuaria della Consolata I told him my photos hadn’t done it justice and I wanted him to spend one minute looking in to see it for himself.
To my surprise, he did. And to my bigger surprise, the one minute turned into more than half an hour. Not surprisingly, he discovered and was fascinated by something that I hadn’t spent much time looking at. I almost hesitate to post the photos because in a way I feel they are intimate and sacred. But I am posting a few that I found sad or interesting.
These are little portraits maybe ten centimetres across and each depicts someone’s death. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t look away until finally I needed to take a break from what I found so poignant and private.
I’m not a Catholic and don’t really understand the significance but I’m going to look it up and ask around.
As well, there was a wall full of frames with medallions. Not sure about those either.
We didn’t have a lot of luck or energy when we reached Cit Turin. I can really tell that the two months are almost over. I feel this as fatigue but also sadness and my usual state of worry. We wandered around the streets and checked out the pizza place Liat had told us about. Sadly, the man at the counter told us he wasn’t making any new pizza now and what was on display was what was on offer. We left. We did find an unusual church with a great spire. We had just been here the night before hoping to find the Giandujia liqueur Krish loves.
We took a short break at the flat and headed out for the 24 hour Carrefour. I truly considered staying back with Netflix but I did want to take one last look at food gift ideas so off we both went. It’s a large store but once inside it could be any large supermarket anywhere in the world. There are some exceptions, like the vast space for pasta, for breadsticks, or mozzarella!
We went to bed remembering that the next day was the last full one. Lots to do!