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  • Campo Argentino

    Campo Argentino

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    I have spent a lot of time on friends’ ranches in Argentina or traveling by horseback. It took me a while to appreciate the flatness of it all, but now I have come to love the bare aesthetic of the pampas.

  • The Road is My Home

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    I have felt the home country – the false country – falling behind me. I wonder why I didn’t take to the road sooner. Though, in all fairness, I did head out many times on voyages that lasted three weeks or fifteen years. The difference now is that then I was leaving some place, something…

  • Update! – Concert in Washington, DC

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    We just confirmed a concert at the Argentine Embassy in Washington DC on July 8… just in time to celebrate Argentine Independence Day. Maria Volonte: Blue Tango Tour Embassy of Argentina 1600 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009 Friday, July 8 2011 Doors: 6:00 PM Set: 6:30 PM Tickets: Free Concert An intimate concert…

  • Derek Sivers likes Maria Volonte

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    Derek Sivers has been a guiding light for me in the music business. So I was surprised and pleased to get an email from Derek a few months ago saying that of all the thousands of musicians he met while starting and building CD Baby into the success it is today, Maria Volonte was one…

  • 15-Minute Kisses

    15-Minute Kisses

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    She waited a long time for another to come. Meantime her mind wandered to his lips and the way they felt over her body, not just on her lips. It was cold on the beach and she shivered. His kisses were never tentative but nor did they mistake depth or pressure for passion. They were…

  • The Butterfly’s Wings

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    She dances through life, moving from partner to partner with such even-handed grace that no one takes affront. The lovers, men and women, cling to her, lose themselves happily in her world. The frankness of her gift is such that they all understand.

  • A woman on the riverbank in repose

    A woman on the riverbank in repose

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    As the afternoon sun drops lower, the timbre of the light deepens, throwing a soft golden blanket over the two of us. All I want now is for her to sleep while I stay with her under a summer sun that settles on the horizon without ever dissolving into the ocean.

  • Like swimming through night and day

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    But probably he admired her more for letting that surly old husband of hers back for the last years of his life, swiping away with that slender, braceleted hand whatever had come between them once.

  • Cleansing Waters

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    As an adolescent, I prayed to be made wise, but now, knowing the price one will pay for such insolence, I regret my words. I could have asked for riches or a long life or many children – but no, I had to ask for wisdom.