If dignity, honesty and modesty were sold at the supermarket or in some fashionable shop, everyone would queue up to buy them even if they didn’t know what to do with them. Dignity, honesty and modesty, on the other hand, are neither bought nor sold; they are built with patience, education and respect, sacrifice, constancy and perseverance, courage, intelligence and discernment. I wish each and every one the … Continua a leggere Do Your Best
The end of a year is a time for testing, not how good or bad the year was for us, but how bad we were. The hard, severe, horrible contingencies, such as those that accompanied us this year, are undeniable, but perhaps what we need to understand is how we lived those too, I mean with what attitude, since this is what makes the difference. … Continua a leggere Happy New Year
Ho letto con sentimento di attesa il libro curato da Moni Ovadia e Giovanna Salvioni, Contro il razzismo (Educatt, 2012) perché sapevo che anche a otto anni dalla sua pubblicazione avrebbe avuto qualcosa di importante da dirmi e da raccontare su un tema che si evita di trattare perchè farlo significa assumere delle importanti responsabilità. Le attese non sono state tradite.Nel libro ho trovato un … Continua a leggere Moni Ovadia e Giovanna Salvioni: Contro il razzismo
We always think we are strangers to the rest, as if we were the only ones and without ties to live in a world without balance. Then, when the rest is present and its voice is heard, we complain, ready to incriminate this or that or even one and the other without ever assuming responsibility from ourselves. So it is for these violent storm surges … Continua a leggere Storms
Il romanzo di Tara Westover, L’educazione (Feltrinelli, 2018), è un romanzo davvero molto interessante e accattivante grazie al quale è immediato il riconoscimento di un valore e significato che vanno oltre lo specifico campo di narrazione (il mormonismo esasperato) per attraversare una verità che diventa universale: qualsiasi bambino che cresca in una famiglia violenta e/o che abbia poca cura per la formazione dei piccoli, è … Continua a leggere Tara Westover: L’educazione
Then you realize that you are sky, moon, stars, infinite magic of the gift of a night whose faint light is you. The frail have infinite resources to donate. Accustomed to courageously supporting their pain, they know how to smile and soothe the wounds, the voids, the fear of silence and loneliness of those who fear them and who are, instead, your home, your refuge, … Continua a leggere You Are the Moon
Writing is, for me, fighting against the standardization and massification of thought, it is giving shape and wings to the freedom that binds the thought of the other and makes it the center of one’s thought. Writing is not an adventure into the illusory, but a descent into truth, a journey into reality and its multiple expressions. I would like those who read and not … Continua a leggere Becoming Voice
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas, may it be a good Christmas and a Christmas of goodness. I wish a Christmas in which we do not forget that the other, next to us, is a little more alone and that this must make us more responsible. I wish a Christmas that sees us ready to transform tears into delicate smiles ready to welcome that flow of life … Continua a leggere Merry Christmas
These days, let’s only think about giving children a smile. A smile that is of love, despite the difficulties, that does not hide the truth and the risks, but that makes them an instrument of dialogue and responsible maturation. If, as often happens, adults indulge in self-satisfaction or self-pity, we will not offer the children signs of hope and abandon them in fear of living … Continua a leggere So This Is Christmas
Each person is a memory that unfolds over time and beyond time, no matter if it is more or less important in your life, each person leaves its mark. Sometimes you find those signs, other times you would like not to find them, but they are there, they are part of you and of your history, denying them would mean denying yourself, distorting them would … Continua a leggere Memory
Writing Is Testifying 