Grew up circling the idea that beauty and truth were the same discipline before ever having words for it, from too many afternoons on a bench facing the Duomo, watching tourists argue about a dome nobody today could build the same way twice. Keeps a postcard of Galileo's instruments as a reminder that looking closely at the sky once cost a man his freedom, and that the trattoria debate over whether it could be raised again has never once been settled, which is the appeal of it.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies