I contacted some nursing homes and I am re-thinking my plans in regards to contact with nursing homes. I would need more time in order to get permission to interview in the nursing homes—the homes have to get the ok from these women’s family members and I have realized that too much time would be needed to gather all the logistics, then the interviews, then the transcriptions, then the translations and then the subtitles and then organized into the project as a whole. I decided to keep it at seven women. Why seven? My sabbatical proposal was inspired by a particular date: 7/7/1943. 4+3=7. On that date 16 people lost their lives in the small town of Bagheria. 1+6=7. The youngest of these lives was a 7- year old girl—my grandmother’s youngest sister. The number seven seemed to show up a lot, oddly even this log written for the week of November 16th. 1+6=7. Maybe my love of Dante Alighieri is influencing my idea of numbers. Dante used some unique numerology throughout his book, La Divina Commedia—the Divine Comedy. I am not sure why the number seven seemed to be showing up for me; my favorite number is 3. I later did a little research on the number seven. It’s a fascinating number, with many cultural, psychological and spiritual meaning. I found this article interesting…
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Anna C.Instructor of Italian language and culture at OPRFHS Archives
June 2016
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