Welcoming 2023!

 Annamaria on Monday

It’s 1/2/23 or 2/1/23, depending on what continent you are on!  

On Saturday night, like many others I think, I was grateful to 2022 for its beautiful moments, a few of which were outstandingly gorgeous!  But it also seems to have doled out more than a year’s fair share of hard developments, both personally, nationally, and internationally.  I was glad to say good-bye to all that!

Standing on my terrace in Florence on New Year’s Eve gives one a best possible viewing  of the festivities in the Piazza della Signoria, without the discomfort of the packed streets (to say nothing of the possible bacterial variants that we have all learned to abhor).

The show was entrancing: aerialists dancing on the façade, stunning projections turning the stone in to moving things… It looked like nothing short of magic.   

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One of the aerialists seemed to be floating without apparent controls.

 At midnight, there was - of course- a countdown.

But then, the projections continued.

And there were fireworks and floodlights.  

For me, 2023 is off to a good start.  I hope it keeps that promise for all of us.

Auguri di Buon Anno!!