The duomo di Modena was consecrated in 1184. I was born 800 years later, in 1984. The cathedral was completed a hundred and fifty years after that, in 1309 (can you imagine if they took that long to build something in LA, Sammy asks). Sammy and I fell deep into love 700 years after completion, in 2009. Magic. Time travel. Typically, I wouldn’t let the antiquity of this cathedral, built stone by stone, holding billions of prayers and memories, sink in.
But today, as Sammy and I feasted on insalate, gnoccho fritto, mozzarella and tortellini, gazing across the sea of cobblestone to the duomo, it hit me and I cried a little. #lyonrose2015 #modena #italy
