7:09pm -

What cultures borrow, and what lasts

We are at the bar on the corner directly below our rental. The padrone seems to know (and greet!) every other person that walks, rides, or drives by in their city-sized outfits, bicycles, scooters, and cinquecentos. There’s a family, speaking Spanish amongst each other, at an adjacent table eating hors d’oeuvres and drinking wine.

Another European wearing a Yankees hat. An Eagles ballad is playing in the background. Caught up in thinking about what I am absorbing in these places, I start to wonder what the Italians and Europeans decide to “borrow” from us. Iconic American brands and sports teams. Yankees hats, Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses. Tasteful and timeless.

What can we borrow from each other? What’s worth borrowing from each other? It seems like making something that lasts, something that aims to be timeless and not trendy, is the way to find yourself threaded into the fabric of future cultures.