When writing, observation and listening skills become essential. Using words to reconstruct images is a gift and a duty.With such a responsibility I remember a story from many years ago. I met F. in tears in the sea of her blood. I met her while she, desperate, was asking for forgiveness from her husband who had taken her to the hospital.F. had lost the child … Continua a leggere Life and Death, Death-in-Life
There is not a day that I do not write at least one line or that I do not read at least as much, obviously the number one is only symbolic, it is the numerical basis of the infinite multiplication which is followed every day by numbers and numbers of pages read and written that constitute the most explicit dimension of my way of building … Continua a leggere Love for Literature
Do you know what is beautiful in seeing all your books lined up one after the other (the newborn “Giulia” is still missing)? The life that goes through them. Sapete che cosa c’è di bello nel vedere tutti i propri libri schierati uno dietro l’altro (manca ancora il neonato “Giulia”)? La vita che li attraversa. Continua a leggere Simply Life
Very early this morning I opened the window and the moon greeted me as if it were waiting for me, given the impossible time of my awakening (3:27); now, I look out on the balcony and see the rainbow … in short, so much wonder for the few and lonely early risers will mean something! Meanwhile, I thank the beauty of creation and let my … Continua a leggere The Beauty of Creation
When a new book is published, a thousand questions always arise: how to advertise it? How to talk about it? What to say and what not to say? Who really listens? Who cares about the life you are narrating? These are just some of the questions, and the most obvious ones, then there are the profound ones that must remain such waiting for someone to … Continua a leggere “Giulia”
Respect words, words are bonds, they are bridges that weaken and collapse under the weight of that hunger and thirst for power that satisfies only personal greed, under the load of those false needs that flaunt self-power and mockery towards those who know necessity and need what it is. Words, however, are also hooks that fish among the rights betrayed the honest voices of those … Continua a leggere Respect Words
“The Souls of Black Folk” (Oxford World’s Classics, 2008) by W.E.B. Du Bois, published for the first time in April 1903, continues to have a fundamental content in the light of modern but never dormant racial hatreds, discrimination, hostile gaze towards the difference in skin colorThe author, sociologist, historian, essayist, poet, with an attentive and far-sighted gaze, studies the Afro-American condition without ever expressing himself … Continua a leggere W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls Of Black Folk
Keep your gaze, always, for better or for worse, in the vicissitudes and joys. Keep your inner gaze that makes you appreciate the little things, that gaze that never steals but tears the smile from those in pain. Keep your clean gaze of honest courage that drags far beyond individual pain and teaches that beyond ourselves there is time that prepares itself for the smile … Continua a leggere Keep Your Gaze
Rummaging through the photos brings back memories of people who are alive in the memory of every present moment even if they have not been there for some time. It happens because in life everyone encounters good and evil, here, he is the good: uncle Peppino.He worked at Italsider first, and then at Cementir, his overalls were always dirty with dust, his hands calloused for … Continua a leggere The Good Man
