My 100% favourite part of this write up is the mention of "piano piano". In 2018 i was renovating my house in Little Italy Toronto (Canada). There was this 91

My 100% favourite part of this write up is the mention of "piano piano". In 2018 i was renovating my house in Little Italy Toronto (Canada). There was this 91 year old Italian woman, Assunta, living alone in the house next to mine. She was always curious (or nosey?), but only spoke Italian, so we struggled to communicate. She would always say in broken English encouraging statements like "You make it nice", "lot of work, you do so good" to which I would say "thanks" and often talk about the amount of work ahead of me. She would always follow up with "eh, piano piano...". I had no idea what she meant until one day I Googled this term and i learnt it essentially means "slowly slowly" or "take it slowly". Assunta is gone now, but she was a lovable character. I think my dog misses her treats, and I miss the snacks she would bring me when I was working on the house.