Summer by @anthonycotsifas⁠ ⁠ "my summer for the last few years has been spending a few weeks in italy with friends. eating and traveling around we work our way through the plans and the meals that someone in the group has spent time to schedule. i see things that will inspire and sustain me through the cold winter months in new york, while i dream of coming back here. back to the place where i feel more at home then i feel anywhere else.⁠ ⁠ secretly, my real holiday begins when i wave goodbye to everyone at the airport and send them back to where they belong. it is then that i am able to sneak off to the small quiet sun baked town where my family lives. there i take early morning bike rides and⁠ listen to the birds and my thoughts argue in my head, before anyone else is awake. there i am taken care of in the only way that your family will care for you; making your favorite meals, playing cards, helping to crush the grapes for the wine harvest, instructing me on how to roll the perfect pasta, and bossing me around with the best intentions. it has been two years since i have been able to see them, and it will finally feel like the world is back to normal when i sit down to maria’s kitchen table and let her feed me with the love she has made that will fill my belly."⁠ ⁠ #anthonycotsifas #maanifestagency