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Venice by day, Venice by night.

Venice by fog, Venice by light.

The Venice I saw this past week was much different from the Venice I saw before.  For Venice, I discovered, is a place that is always changing.  It changes with the seasons.  It changes with the tides. It is interesting to consider that a place that seems to be stuck in time, is never the same.

This time in Venice I was not pierced by the sun, instead I was wrapped by the fog.  I was not wishing I could jump in the canal, but dashing to avoid it.  I learned the term “aqua alta.”  One, which despite its inconveniences, was a treat to experience.  Nowhere else in this world does a Piazza flood like the one of San Marco.  Nowhere else in this world is flooding taken so casually.

Some things in Venice never change, like my ability to get lost.  The winding canals have an amazing way of throwing off my sense of direction.  And to think that being lost on the island wasn’t enough, this time the dense fog made the island seem lost at sea, floating among the murky waters much further from land than I remembered.

Venice is unique.  Its qualities are unusual.  It touches everyone differently.  It is not for some, but it is for many.  It is not for witches, for they would melt.  It is not for the thirsty, for the water is not potable.  Rather, it is for those whom enjoy to wonder, whom are not concerned with time, and whom want to be lost and then be found.

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