After taking a three-week tour to Europe recently, the perceptions brought home are multi-layered, and intricate. But
most of all, what I think about is scale. I've been to big cities before, with
big buildings, big spaces, and yes, sprawl as far as the eye can see, studded
dense with urban constructs. There is something however that makes me blink and
do a double take in Europe, and that's about the size of some the architectural
specimens visible there. Even on 21st-century terms, those folks who designed
and hewed were thinking big. No, strike that… I meant colossal. It is sublime
to not only stand amongst these wonders, but to think of being part of the
human family they have sung to for hundreds and in some cases, even a couple
thousand years.
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