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In Michelangelo's most famous Sistine Chapel image, The Creation of Adam, God's outstretched hand is about to touch that of Adam's and give him life. The gap between their fingers foreshadows the impending contact, depicting the ethereal current of "celestial life surrounding God ready to flow into the waiting body of Adam."

Paris feels like a contemporary dance. To me, it is the rearranging of desks and chairs in Finn's studio apartment, meandering through streets and boulevards and avenues, peering into boulangeries and browsing outside vintage map shops.

Wednesday morning Thuan and I walked across the Tiber river and further east to the Vatican City. Along the way, we passed the Pantheon and exclaimed at how integrated into the urban fabric it is. From countless encounters with it in architectural history texts, I had imagined it as a grand monument as opposed to a medium-sized temple ruin that was surrounded by coffee shops, restaurants and even a butcher shop.