The episode I share the news that a lovely man that I met while I was just beginning my journey to change my relationship with alcohol, has passed away.

He owned an organic wine farm in Sicily called Agriturismo Tarantola. https://www.gorgodeldrago.it/en/

His name is Filippo Testa and he touched my life in a profound and deeply spiritual way.

I visited his farm during my journey to stop over-drinking and I came home from that trip and wrote a podcast about the unconditional love that I found there on his farm and in Sicily.

This podcast shares that original podcast I wrote and recorded back in 2018 along with 2 poems that Phillipo and I created together using piano music that the shared with us while we were on his farm. It is unbelievably beautiful and I wish everyone could have an experience like I did, then.

His legacy will live on forever. I will never forget the impact he had on my life at such a special, transformative time.

Say YES to your life. Share your sentiments with people who move you.

Go on the adventure, see it, feel it, appreciate this one life you have to experience all the things.

Here is the translation of the poem that Fillipo wrote:

I arrive
I go
I enter
I leave
I depart
and I meet.

I meet different people
different cultures
different languages
different colors
It’s the world
that spins incessantly
in your hands.

And what do you leave behind??
What do you leave behind??

Maybe a fragrance
a flower
a gesture
a word
love

or maybe nothing
absolute silence.

But
it’s not difficult to turn
hatred into love
a tear into a smile
rain into sunshine.

And you
what do you leave behind?
You, a drop on a leaf that shines like silver
You, a drop among many drops
that form the meetings
that bind us together, drawn by one thing:
love
for people
for life
for everything.

You leave a smile
a hope
you leave a trace
that remains etched
in the folds of my heart.

So leave,
always leave something of yourself
so that you may live forever
in a step
in a leaf
in the green meadow
on the hill
at evening and at morning
so that even the dew
will remind me of a meeting
always and forever.

You are
my box of colors.

How many of you are there?
So many, so very many
and how many colors you leave behind.

Vivid colors
bright colors
colors
that blossom in my heart.

Every day I open my box
in silence.

I embrace my colors
I embrace them all
because I know
that in this moment
they are all painting a thought of love for me.

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