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| The word "sweet" translates in Italian with "dolce" as an adjective and a noun, which means "dessert" and "cake": "dolce della sposa" means "wedding cake". |
WONDERFUL BREAKING NEWS FOR CAMA DERUTA!
The coincidence of the number of letters in one of the most popular English sayings such as "Home Sweet Home" with its Italian translation "Casa Dolce Casa" (and reverse) is just striking: a total of thirteen letters and 13 is the luckiest number in Italy with the exact number of letters in the same words in both languages: 4+5+4!
Maybe the reason for 13 being a lucky number is that at one time the most popular state lottery in Italy was named "Totocalcio" where the goal was to guess 13 soccer results. Therefore there was the exclamation that still goes around in Italy: "I have scored thirteen!" which means that you had great success in your private life, in your social life, in a small or big wish and so on beyond winning a sum of pecuniary disposables.
Additionally, the word "sweet" in Italian is both an adjective (tr."dolce") as it is used in this expression and a noun (tr. "dolce") which means "dessert" and "cake". This is the reason why the word "HOME" makes me think now of a big PARTY CAKE to celebrate with!
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| A ceramics wedding plate with noble weds and their crests on each side (credit: Ceramics Museum of Deruta) |
Therefore based on the most recent evolution of the story of Cama and with reference to this saying, to the number 13 and to the party cake, I think of myself as a lottery winner. Why? Perché? Because after dreaming, searching, asking, offering, stimulating, making projects of merging into other workshops in Deruta, which I have filed as my unshared dreams (one of the most difficult things to do in life is sharing someone else's dreams which at the end is one of the most rewarding actions in life), my parents decided to resume their artistry in ceramics in the small warehouse next to our family home.
What a great opportunity is disclosing to them, in the building that was intended to be the retail store of Cama Deruta when at the end of the 1960s the E-45 was built and the original project was contemplating a much larger exit for "Deruta Centro" (tr. "downtown Deruta"), compared to what it is now with its low underpass and the small roundabout!
As a consequence of the changes to the original project of the "superstrada" (Tr.motorway), this building was left unfinished and the retail store was never opened. One more reason to give this place its moment of glory! My parents will be happy to welcome the Friends of Cama visiting Deruta as their first stop, if they wish they can leave their dogs in the small garden behind the warehouse with our dogs, little by little we can arrange something nice together (a kitchen is also available besides a large lady's room, which is most welcome after a long trip), as if you were home!
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| The Canticle of The Creatures of Saint Francis of Assisi on a trompe-l'oeil ceramics plaque on the back of one of the gratitude aedicules of Deruta "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist" - Saint Francis of Assisi |
So yesterday was just a great day, the first step to the dream of resuming the art, my mother and I we ordered for her a small kiln which we are planning to use for special occasions for beautiful unique ceramics pieces. The kiln will be custom made and will be ready in about fifteen days, in the meantime, we are getting ready to arrange the welcoming area of this unveiling space. This is what I wanted to share with you today as an update to the happy ending story of Cama Deruta. I am so happy today, I would like to embrace the world!
By the way, what shall we call this special space? Ideas are welcome, thank you very much in advance. And thank you for believing in art, beauty and values as much as we do, I am very grateful and glad to stroll with you arm in arm, our languages match perfectly on this saying, you are most welcome to our home!
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"Andare a braccetto" (tr. hand in hand, arm in arm) is an expression in Italian which means "to get along", "to be on the same page", "to share the same vision" also used for culinary expressions when two ingredients match perfectly.-----------------------------------------
FRIENDS OF CAMA
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This special place will be called "Cama Barn" in English, as it was originally the barn to the house, in which at the time of my great-grand father Pompeo the family raised milk cows. In our family we have always called this space "Capannoncino", among friends we can call it "Cama Cappuccino", as it is very similar and more familiar to everybody, we will make sure to have coppuccino there for you when you come and visit Deruta! (many thanks to Karen and to Bruce for their help with the language!Charles Dickens wrote it took twenty years to learn a language, that time has passed a long time ago for me...it is so difficult to express the right thing!)
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