“Appunti sul dolore” (Einaudi, 2021) di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie è un libro agile e scorrevole che mi è stato regalato a Natale, ma che, per motivi disparati, ho ritardato a leggere.Conosco e apprezzo la scrittura e il pensiero di questa autrice, ma in un momento personale così particolare, mi sembrava che il tema del libro e la condizione che lo ha suggerito fossero per me … Continua a leggere Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Appunti sul dolore
I am not lacking in imagination and creativity helps me in the hours of tiredness and pain. Creating with the thought, writing with the hands, building simple beauty with the art learned from the mother, all contribute to what I call my period of resistance. To resist is not to be subjugated, but to oppose the spirit of thought even in what may appear to … Continua a leggere Folding Fan
I saw a cloud in the sky and I called it “unconsciousness”. I don’t know why I did it, or why that very name was his name for me. And yet, in the blue of that harmless sky, unconscious it seemed to me that it was crossing the empty valleys of blind hearts. Ho visto nel cielo una nuvola e l’ho chiamata “incoscienza”. Non so … Continua a leggere Empty Cloud
I feel a little lost, as if this world were not my world.But what is my world?After all, over the years, on several occasions, although for always different reasons, I have often found myself asking myself the same question: “What is my world?”, With this assuming that a world exists for me.What if it isn’t so? What if there was no world that belongs to … Continua a leggere Whatever the World
There are many mean people and they can even try to hurt, over time, however, I have learned to offer them my indifference. I meschini sono tanti e possono anche provare a fare del male, nel tempo, però, ho imparato a offrire loro la mia indifferenza. Continua a leggere Meanness
Studying helps me stay true to the voices of the people I want to tell. One should never speak in order to speak, but allow knowledge to be realized in conscience. Studiare mi aiuta a restare fedele alla voce delle persone di cui voglio narrare. Non bisognerebbe mai parlare per parlare, ma consentire alla conoscenza di realizzarsi in coscienza. Continua a leggere Studying
Sometimes the pain of the body overpowers the courage of the mind, and it is then that you realize that no matter how important you are to your mind, it cannot do without your body.It seems trivial, but it is not if we think of the so much literature and philosophy that over the centuries has tried to distinguish the two parts, even foreseeing the … Continua a leggere Body and Mind
La bellezza del tuo giorno non giace nel “tutto va bene”, ma nel “fare in modo che tutto vada bene” anche quando non è così. La bellezza è nello sguardo, nel tuo sguardo donato alla vita . The beauty of your day does not lie in “everything is fine”, but in “making everything goes fine” even when it is not so. Beauty is in the … Continua a leggere Beautiful Day
There are many situations in which you feel that you are losing control of yourself, not because you go crazy, but because each step becomes a chasing after something you cannot escape from, but which, in order to be reached, forces you to follow trajectories that you cannot escape. they are your own, often useless, often confused and excessively buracriticized, and you find yourself spinning … Continua a leggere Histories of Life
I only need a moment to restore my words the rhythm of my thoughts. Just a moment to narrate the voice and the sense of those who travel the route of their destiny.A vortex is the life that overwhelms, but no wind will be able, however, to sweep away the decisions taken with care or the search for those answers that are not subject to … Continua a leggere Just a Minute
Writing Is Testifying 