Five Years Later: Reflecting on Italy's Lockdown and the Diary Left Unread

A personal journey through memories of the first lockdown, the passage of time, and the unopened pages of a Venetian journal

Mar 12, 2025

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vintage Italian bar sign with bold red letters on a weathered ochre building with dark shutters — I love the typography of these vintage signs. Hard to believe that that there was a time when every single *bar (coffee shop)* in Italy closed down. Rome, 2025

Five years ago this week, we went into lockdown in Italy, and it still feels like both yesterday and forever ago. So much about that time is seared into my memory, and yet so much of it remains el…

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