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Worn Smooth

11/15/2011 By Kate McDermott-Art of the Pie 3 Comments

In the big 300 year-old fireplace downstairs a fire burns and crackles, warming the house and I am tucked away in my little bedroom at the top of the stairs above the Kitchen at Camont.

The rain has started. I can hear the gentle pattering of drops on the leaves outside my window. I wonder how many other souls have listened to the quiet of the night from under this same red tiled roof.

France’s edges are worn smooth. Wherever I look, there is beauty. In the Gascogne countryside, I see it in the smiles of the people who have welcomed me, fed me and helped me. Her song is sung in their mellifluous voices. As I run my fingers over her old stones, I feel it. The woodsmoke carries it as the sun sets and the night begins. I taste it in the local food, some of the best I have ever been privileged enough to eat.

Gascony is filling me with a grace I believed I had all but used up over the years. But, it is still here, and I am drinking it in slowly, replenishing myself…drop by drop.

Filed Under: France Tagged With: Camont, France

3 Thoughts on Worn Smooth
    bill law
    15 Nov 2011
     3:32pm

    kate, it has been a pleasure following your adventures in camont and environs this past week or so.
    your post today is beautiful…
    (it perfectly expresses feelings i was unable to articulate after my time there last march)

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    tea_austen
    18 Nov 2011
     6:48pm

    You are such a beautiful writer, Kate! This is gorgeous.

    I’m so glad you are getting to have this experience. xox

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    Greta | Art of the Pie
    16 Jan 2013
     4:03pm

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