A week of journal-ing!
We learned today of canpanalissimo, "the spirit of the belltower", attachment to place. I'm glad there's a word for it other than "home body". Looking at the belltower of Santa Maria in Trastevere, "home body" is not the word for that kind of attachment.
I thought of Philadelphia, and the fierce identity of neighborhoods, more often than not defined by parish. Our bell towers are not twelfth-century installments, or even real bells, but the immigrants who built them brought canpanalissimo with them.
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