Courage is being yourself and never betraying yourself.I see all my flaws, I’ve always seen them, but now there are many more, cancer hasn’t spared his interference.Yet, among the many signs that change my body inside and out, I see one, in my gaze, which never changes to deteriorate and break its promise of loyalty to life and love.The look dreams of everything that can … Continua a leggere Never Betray
Ci sono romanzi che col trascorrere degli anni non solo hanno sempre una storia da raccontare, ma hanno una storia “nuova” da narrare, come se li si leggesse per la prima volta. Tale è “Lo sguardo del re” (Pàtron editore, 1983) di Camara Laye.Il romanzo “Lo sguardo del re”, con la postfazione di Liana Nissim che aiuta a percorrerne alcune tracce più nascoste per chi … Continua a leggere Camara Laye: Lo sguardo del re
A pale and sulky face also tells those who do not want to listen to all the pain and sacrifice of a time without pause or refreshment.Whoever sees only my smile perhaps cannot understand the fatigue of that smile nor the love it contains. It is like being in front of the beauty of the bud of a rare flower, slow to bloom, since what … Continua a leggere Loving Life
Sometimes only silence can restore composure and serenity in the inconclusive babble of the too full of empty words in which we are submerged.In silence you can better grasp your soul and the soul of things and with them try to cross the threshold of the abyss without falling into it, but building bridges of legitimate truth.It is in silence that we listen and make … Continua a leggere What Silence Says
I rejoice in what is beautiful even if I cannot enjoy it, perhaps this is the secret of life: life is not made to give joy to me, but to give joy and that’s it. Gioisco di ciò che è bello anche se non posso goderne, forse è questo il segreto della vita: la vita non è fatta per dare gioia a me, ma per … Continua a leggere Joy
It is day, but I would like it to be evening already, forget for a moment the frenetic time that passes by and still travel the infinite in the silence of the heart. È giorno, ma vorrei che fosse già sera, dimenticare per un attimo il tempo che scorre frenetico e percorrere ancora l’infinito nel silenzio del cuore. Continua a leggere Day and Night
At dawn, everything appears more beautiful, full of hope and a harbinger of answers to the many expectations that we don’t even dare to give a name to.A seagull flying high in the sky or one that, further down, seems to follow its shadow, both appear as the symbol of the graceful discovery of a possibility of freedom.The moon, sister, which is extinguished in the … Continua a leggere Beauty Exists
The bruising all over the body as a new brand of cancer violence. Thus, you feel helpless in front of a project which you rely on but which you do not understand. Fragile thing is my body reviled and offended by cancer as well as by the consequences of the therapies to cure it that do not seem suitable for their same purpose.Who can I … Continua a leggere The Labyrinth of Conscience
“Verso il paradiso” (Feltrinelli, 2022) di Hanya Yanagihara è un libro dalla struttura alquanto complessa ma accattivante e dalla storia, anzi, dalle storie che, pur nella loro diversità, possono ricongiungersi in un unicum di visione sul proprio passato il presente e il futuro: la ricerca di un paradiso in terra, nel proprio mondo, tradita dal prevalere dell’indifferenza e della solitudine.Il volume è diviso in tre … Continua a leggere Hanya Yanagihara: Verso il paradiso
Tell me, what can I do to give you joy?If it were enough to sing a song or tell a tale of innocent knights and heroes, I would do it, as long as I could read that sweet but forgotten joy in your eyes.If it were enough to accompany you holding your hand or to jump with you the obstacle that blocks you, I would … Continua a leggere Gladness
Writing Is Testifying 