Week 1 – Belvedere Palace
Well here we go again, another 53 weeks lie ahead of us. If anything this next period will be more difficult than the first, if only because doing something again is often more difficult than setting out to do something the first time. They say you should start as you mean to go on, so at the last minute on the Sunday afternoon (before the light faded), I walked up to the Belvedere Palace to shoot this. I do hope you like it!
In the vein of new beginnings, I promised myself I’d start diversifying my posts. Not because books I’ve started running out of things to say. Believe me, I think most of the people in my life once in a while hope I do run out of things to say…But because, although I’ve already read 6 books this year and I’m chugging along with my resolution to read 100 books this year, I have to acknowledge the change in my reading style over the years. I no longer wish to maintain the segmentation of my reading from my life. In fact, it’s not an entirely sustainable scheme. Eventually things you read start informing your daily life and your daily life obviously informs your reading choices.
With that in mind, I am sharing this gorgeous and stately picture of the Belvedere Palace in Potsdam. Sad I didn’t get to see this when I was there a few years ago. Although, can’t complain as I was able to visit Sans Souci.
Sans Souci Palace is the place that Frederick the Great used to retreat to. Sans Souci means "no worries" in French.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the places that my reading has allowed me to travel and how books have ignited my curiosity for the world.
