Awakening is a succession of calls and emotions, a thud of things that fall, get up and chase each other as if, while running, the heart realizes that it has to go slower, but also that it is not capable of it alone and that it needs to a chorus that, slower, marks a new tempo with his smile. So, I smile at this day … Continua a leggere Good Morning and Be It a Good Day

Those who love school never leave it, even when they no longer attend it, not in the usual way, at least. School is not a place, but it is THE place. It is not a seat, but the seat where people of different ages and backgrounds meet to create, if they want to make a bet with their life and with the depth and truth … Continua a leggere Never Betray Them

Pause, rest, but never give up!There is one thing that has always struck me about “great” people, be they those who perform great deeds, deliver great speeches or live their greatness in the simplicity of their ordinary everyday life: perseverance. What makes a person “great”, in fact, is not what they did, but how he did it, not what he said at that moment, but … Continua a leggere The Gift of Perseverance

This morning there is a new meekness in the air, it seems to invoke the hard and disrespectful hearts to give and give themselves a kind look, to offer a caress of good, to forget the rudeness that offends and that sends only fools into raptures, to yield the weapons of deception to join a possible harmony in the desert of solitude in which they … Continua a leggere Let It Be

It is extraordinary that the capacity that human beings have to appropriate territories, be they physical or metaphorical, can be really unpleasant if this “appropriation” is revealed in the possession of what not only they do not really know, but they do not even want to know, since such a thing is of interest only insofar as in that present moment it represents a possibility … Continua a leggere Territories