Promo-copy, Umbria business

Short-term, hands-on workshops in the Orvieto area.

Visiting Italy? Consider a short break in your travel itinerary to learn something fun and useful. We provide instructors, learning materials, local laboratories, good cheer . . . we will even arrange accommodations for you. Spend a few days in the green heart of Italy and get to know new friends as well as new skills and abilities.

• Take your best product pictures--principles, practice, perfection without professional cameras and equipment
• Create Bohemian glass-bead jewelry--all you need to know and be able to do to get started
• Make Italian olive oil and lavender-scented soaps--for family, friends, the world, simple and all-natural ingredients
• Sell arts and crafts products in Europe and the US--we help you set up your online multi-lingual shop or web site
• Get some goats or sheep and make cheese--in-depth explorations in how the locals do it before you decide
• Preserve and conserve with all-natural ingredients--please your vegan and other friends with simple yet tasty delights
• Self-publish your ebook--everything you must do perfectly before marketing and selling

Each of the above is a two-and-a-half day workshop, which can be extended upon need or request. Short and to the point, including introduction, demonstrations, practice sessions, tools and techniques, supplies, on-site visits, Q and A, and what you need to have and do next to proceed and succeed.

Phaedr. Yes, this is the tree.

Myths and fancies I'll have none.
No such leisure for: They
undo us, then we're undone.
Know myself, Delphians say.

Other's curiosities?
Not worthy my one concern.
Out ridiculosities!
Such nothings I will not learn.

Except I a monster Typho,
or other simple loathsome--
replete with passions' typos.
Nature gave me gentle sum.

Loft or lesser race,
I ask you, friend. Have we not
time? Conduct me, to the place,
please to respite where we're wrought.

Where truth stories I would hear,
such that mirror stuff to sear
from that I am, from which I'm made.

[Original. Now I have no leisure for such enquiries; shall I tell you why? I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny? But let me ask you, friend: have we not reached the plane-tree to which you were conducting us?]