Comments on: Break In! https://frangallo.com/break-in/ Yoga by Fran Gallo Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: frangallo https://frangallo.com/break-in/#comment-404 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:34:11 +0000 http://frangallo.wordpress.com/?p=3768#comment-404 In reply to Helen Anne.

Hi Helen Anne, amazing that we both share love of our ancestral home! Yes, let’s talk about this over coffee sometime! I hope you don’t give up on your dream and that you transform the house into a culinary/artist retreat. Your dad would be so proud of you! I think you would either need a year of living there to oversee the project or an on-site manager, someone you can fully trust! Having said that, I think the greatest obstacle is within the family…there is this insane concern that someone so young and in a way, “an outsider”–someone who has not grown up in the village–could come in and realize a dream while the villagers may never have the means to renovate the house even if they so desired. Maybe you can involve other local family members in the project. It is complicated and so sad that property and inheritances can bring out the worst of greed in some people and cleave some families apart.

]]> By: frangallo https://frangallo.com/break-in/#comment-403 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:24:04 +0000 http://frangallo.wordpress.com/?p=3768#comment-403 In reply to kay.

Hi Kay, No plans to dash over to Sicily right now. John did want me to go there with him. He has been wanting to publish a photography book about Sicily, featuring our home village Grotte (which is not on many maps!) and this bonanza of a find in photos will help him move along with his book. This is all very fascinating! Thank you, always, for posting comments to my blog! love, fran

]]> By: Helen Anne https://frangallo.com/break-in/#comment-402 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:09:09 +0000 http://frangallo.wordpress.com/?p=3768#comment-402 Fran, we have to talk about our parallel experiences over coffee sometime. My dad had a house in Ireland that he and I worked on the last ten years of his life. It was a project we shared such sentimental value. I too had hopes of living in it someday and making it a culinary/artist retreat. He thought that it would be hard for me to assimilate because I was an “American.” But the truth was that I was more Irish than American and I knew everyone in our village and they always thought it would be a natural thing for me to live there because I always appeared to be so “at home.” I don’t want to give up on my dream but now there are obstacles with my father’s recent passing. Why does property have to divide families. It’s ridiculous.

This is an incredible story. Thank you for sharing. You are a great story teller.

]]> By: kay https://frangallo.com/break-in/#comment-401 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:24:35 +0000 http://frangallo.wordpress.com/?p=3768#comment-401 i would not be surprised in the least if you announced your upcoming sudden trip to Sicily!!

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