Posted by on Jun 30, 2016 | 15 comments

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Quote from the Bansky show of graffiti in Rome.  A wonderful artist.

Well, papa read me a sweet little article today about how people from small towns and villes and even just bumps in the road are writing each other online to tell about how they came to live there and what their lives and loves are like and maybe a little history of the place and some photos about what they are doing and I started thinking, Well, that’s how I like to write my thoughts–whatever is going on that day I sort of jot down and then see if it hooks up with anything else (rarely!) but it’s stimulating to do that and so I’m writing about the patron saint of Rome, San Pietro, and San Paulo who were the first to bring Christianity to Rome.  Today the pope comes out on his balcony and greets the public and at night there are fireworks and regattas of boats on the Tiber (Tevere) but unfortunately we did not get to go.

Instead they went to a graffiti artist’s show, Bansky, who really does some amazing things including political satire and other kinds of satire.  He also loves to draw rats because he says that the rat symbolized the downtrodden and the rejected and yet rats have brought whole nations to their knees.  Well, mama did a “Bansky” on the blackboard for that purpose at the end of the show:

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Don’t worry, I was NOT the model and mama was just turning things around…cat in rat’s mouth? Oh, boy…

Then they came home to feed me and have their lunch, pomodori al riso, one of the greats.

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But on the way home they passed one of Rome’s beautiful piazze, at the Church of Sant’ Ignazio.

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And I, after putting together this mish-mash of items today, am beat!

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Life is good on mama’s baby blanket…