People Watching

The sunlight filters in through the openings between the Brentano facade and onto the crowded black marble floor. They have come to pray to the Madonna. In my own personal experience a God has never spoken to me, but there's something touching about the sincerity of their followers. Only a person who loved their life could ever build a place like this. A small child with a wide grin is taken by his mother's hand once she has lit a candle on his behalf. They both wear black, but her hair is red like the blood oranges they sell in the market.

"They say that the Cathedral of Milan is second only to St. Peter's at Rome. I cannot understand how it can be second to anything made by human hands." - Mark Twain