{"id":34076,"date":"2026-01-28T23:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/?p=34076"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:34:28","slug":"a-letter-from-jacob-bromberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/it\/a-letter-from-jacob-bromberg\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter from Jacob Bromberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0;\">Jacob Bromberg<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 22px 0;\">October Resident 2025<\/p>\n<h1>A Letter from Jacob Bromberg: This Real Beyond<\/h1>\n<p>Dear Villa Lena Readers,<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">I cannot divorce my time at Villa Lena from the personal upheaval I was experiencing before my arrival and, in truth, throughout my stay. My life had changed, drastically, and I undertook as best I could to embrace the wider perspective one friend had attempted to provide me with, quoting the English theologian John Henry Newman:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">\u201cTo live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">As the Villa Lena Foundation\u2019s merry Manager Gillian Donaldson drove me and another resident, the fantastically talented Issi Nanabeyin, from Pontedera station to the villa, I could not help but find myself overcome by the surrounding landscape \u2014 the profusion of hills creating layer upon layer of distance, the baths of mist slowly snaking through wooded valleys, the immense sky littered with Renaissance clouds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent last-child\">The beauty shocked an emotional distance into me, or rather pushed aside the more leaden emotions, allowing me to receive the natural aesthetic experience in dumbstruck awe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34077 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/95085dcd-23ed-ce47-7f62-e6d089e1773b-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/95085dcd-23ed-ce47-7f62-e6d089e1773b-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/95085dcd-23ed-ce47-7f62-e6d089e1773b-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/95085dcd-23ed-ce47-7f62-e6d089e1773b-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/95085dcd-23ed-ce47-7f62-e6d089e1773b-375x249.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/95085dcd-23ed-ce47-7f62-e6d089e1773b-500x332.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/95085dcd-23ed-ce47-7f62-e6d089e1773b-800x531.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/95085dcd-23ed-ce47-7f62-e6d089e1773b.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- FULL WIDTH IMAGE --><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 26px 0;\">\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">Over the following weeks, I would regularly think to myself, \u201cof course linear perspective originated here.\u201d And though the environment continually enticed me to give myself over to it, what I was living internally was anything but linear. I had always imagined the famous five<\/p>\n<p>stages of grief as progressive steps out of an abyss, leading back to solid ground, but they are in fact more akin to winds blowing in currents and constantly giving way to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the wind chase clouds across the sky was one of my favorite pastimes on the bright<\/p>\n<p>October days at Villa Lena. I don\u2019t think this has so much to do with grief as the fact that I can<\/p>\n<p>be a glacially slow writer and often find myself needing to throw my attention elsewhere so<\/p>\n<p>that the depths can continue their work and perhaps deposit a new line of thought onto the<\/p>\n<p>shore of my consciousness. Writing a collection of poetry concerned with the workings of value, with our ways of making meaning, means watching clouds is serious business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The phenomenon of pareidolia \u2013 the interpretation of form, pattern, or meaning where there is, ostensibly, none \u2013 is not only a perennial yet novel entertainment, it is the crossroads where the gambler and the mystic meet, where one can be undecided between chance and fate, or on the contrary, where one can begin to pivot from one paradigm to the other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34080 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7b0610bb-92c8-a6c2-3885-690a3cc6189b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7b0610bb-92c8-a6c2-3885-690a3cc6189b.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7b0610bb-92c8-a6c2-3885-690a3cc6189b-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7b0610bb-92c8-a6c2-3885-690a3cc6189b-375x445.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7b0610bb-92c8-a6c2-3885-690a3cc6189b-500x593.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">In the end, I did not write any poems about cloud gazing, though I\u2019ve promised myself to do so later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">As the season began to change, there were days that saw the landscape enveloped in fog, when the villa and studios were themselves encompassed in cloud. Living inside the clouds suited me well, lending itself less to projecting outward than to settling into moods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent last-child\">The closer our departure, the more deeply each resident seemed to sink into a cloak of their own moodiness, as though a retreat into oneself was a necessary step to weather the transition back to the \u201creal world\u201d beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">Writing this letter now from that real beyond, the linear retrospective it creates feels to me so slight in comparison with my memory of the time and the atmosphere in all of its particulars; and that memory is still just a wan impression of what it was to be present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">That is, of course, part of the nature of story and memory, which I had been wrestling with in my mourning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">One of the poems I wrote during my residency,\u00a0<em>\u201cFairy Gold,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0begins with an instruction:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\"><em>Read upon waking. Read at midnight. Repeat in time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">and its first four quatrains read:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\"><em>Let the clock spin,<br \/>\nno hour can be saved,<br \/>\nand only so much weather<br \/>\ncan fit the sky today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A day is just too thin,<br \/>\nand you and I too broad,<br \/>\nis why we trust in years<br \/>\nthen poured out to night and fog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\"><em>Fairy gold shines<br \/>\na dreamwhile in the hand,<br \/>\nwitching as a vanity,<br \/>\nas when our love began.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The past is what survives<br \/>\nof the present \u2013 looking back,<br \/>\nI scour each regret down to<br \/>\na stainless artifact.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34083 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3c447d93-cc13-f211-3e6e-0a132d200fd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3c447d93-cc13-f211-3e6e-0a132d200fd1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3c447d93-cc13-f211-3e6e-0a132d200fd1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3c447d93-cc13-f211-3e6e-0a132d200fd1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3c447d93-cc13-f211-3e6e-0a132d200fd1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3c447d93-cc13-f211-3e6e-0a132d200fd1-375x211.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3c447d93-cc13-f211-3e6e-0a132d200fd1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3c447d93-cc13-f211-3e6e-0a132d200fd1-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">A treasure obtained in an enchanted time and place that cannot retain its value without the enchantment, fairy gold turns to withered leaves when its bearer returns to the mundane world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">Part of the magic of Villa Lena, however, is that the metaphorical gold it offers inhabits you and does not dull once you have left, but changes with you, within you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent\">I do not know if I have changed often, but I did live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mcePastedContent last-child\"><em>\u2014 Jacob Bromberg<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Bromberg October Resident 2025 A Letter from Jacob Bromberg: This Real Beyond Dear Villa Lena Readers, I cannot divorce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-from-lena"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Letter from Jacob Bromberg - Villa Lena<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I cannot divorce my time at Villa Lena from the personal upheaval I was experiencing before my arrival and, in truth, throughout my stay. 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