There’s something about Italy that doesn’t just stay with you… it calls you back. I didn’t expect that part. I thought I would return home full — satisfied, grateful, perhaps even ready to move on to somewhere new — which was my original plan. And while I am grateful, what I didn’t anticipate was the quiet longing that settled in afterward. Not a restless kind of longing. A gentle one. The kind that says: there’s more here for you. So instead of planning something new and dif