I know a young man who weighs words as whoever should. He knows the difference between companion and friend and never mixes up the two words as the two feelings. When he says to someone I love you it is never because he simply likes what he/she does but what he/she is. When he calls up for service it is never for slavery or exploitation. He is one who can still distinguish the formal … Continua a leggere The weigh of words
‘Hamlet’ by W. Shakespeare, is not a tragedy of violence, it is the violence of a human tragedy. Hamlet, who wants to denounce is uncle for the horrible crime to have killed is father, is also denouncing himself and his silence because of his incapacity to cope clearly with the murderer. Let’s briefly analyze what Hamlet does after the appearance of his father’s ghost resembling his … Continua a leggere All of us like a modern Hamlet
We are here to share parts of life and sense, we are here to discern the right and the wrong, we are here to fight against injustice and preserve a wider space to community, we are here to understand that no theory proposing discrimination and violence will never save us and the others, we are here to live not to exploit and waste human beings … Continua a leggere What has changed?
Here we are in front of the universe too great to be grasped too small to be innocent. Here we are in front of our shame to pretend to be innocent to disguise to be true. Here we are in front of ourselves too false to be real too real to be free. Continua a leggere In front of the universe
What happens when serious different events beat the time of our single day? We don’t know to which of them we should give more importance. How do we spontaneously decide which of the events described in the News are the most interesting for us? We choose according to our feelings and fears, though a permanent perception of instability characterize our entire time every day. The … Continua a leggere Deliberate turmoil to create invisible enemies
I love silence when it actively tells the stories never told which are worth to be listened and known. I love silence when it offers its active help without dispersing useless energies to keep yourself safe. I love the silence which works and tells the never received love for those who never saw a smile or someone accompanying them during their walk. I love silence … Continua a leggere Silence will condemn us to loneliness
Simple things are fragile, though they are the essence of that life we have built upon useless imposition of power we shouldn’t believe in, indeed, if we were still human beings and not machines. I look around and see dissatisfaction, but if I look inside I see opportunities. Nonetheless, many have lost the ability of searching inside being satisfied by what appears that only rarely … Continua a leggere The frailty of the simple things
I just want to tell you a story, the story of Aslan (A Story Long And Never-ending)… I don’t want to tell you about Aslan of C. S. Lewis in The Chronicle of Narnia, but of a dog which took the same name because of the nobility of its behavior and the feeling of peace it could set to the others both when they where … Continua a leggere A Story Long And Never-ending
Is it still important talking about culture? Yes, of course it is, but talking, not just speaking which looks more like chattering about it. Culture is not a joke or something you can pretend it does not exist, because however it does, but changes according to the attention or less you pay to it. Culture exists because we exist, it is never separated from our living, it … Continua a leggere Talking about culture
I cannot but love every scar on my face, every groove which reminds me that I have lived. Yes, despite all the nevertheless, I have lived and I would not like to be different from what I am. Many times more than my 55 I have lived looking for some smile even in sad things, taking the opportunity to live with dignified coherence and honesty … Continua a leggere Year after year
Writing Is Testifying 