Well, Pat, I think many people know exactly of what you speak. I believe there's a whole lot pulling on us and that may be why we paint -- to help focus the lens as it were. All those feelings and settings seem preserved in paintings.
I can hardly believe you have never been to Tuscany -- this lifetime. It's a beautiful, magical place when you get there, especially if one has been romanticizing it for years. That was the case for me. It was almost surreal seeing the solidity of my imaginings right in front of me -- only somewhat different.
I was very much into Renaissance art and times and so in my head Tuscany and all those old art places were still in the 1400s give or take a few centuries. So when I finally got there, I felt like a Renaissance artist who got catapulted through time to our current times. A lot of things from the old paintings were still around, but people were dressed funny -- modern. So the modern world was the one that was like a hallucination. And believe me, that's a trip.
Anyway, nice painting. Very homey. I can almost smell the food cooking and hear someone sweeping across the stones with a rude broom.
"Not a bit is wasted and the best is yet to come. . ." -- remembered from a dream