Feeling, being and wanting to be invisible.Looking in the mirror and not recognizing yourself, perceiving that your own voice has become more silent, noticing that even the body is no longer the same and does not respond in the same way to stimuli as always.What remains? The spirit.What is the outward gaze of the spirit?The love.What is the symbol that love uses in its resistance?The … Continua a leggere Invisible
Silence is the strongest lament since pain walks in silence and in the warmth of patient and resistant courage, silence smiles. Il silenzio è il lamento più forte poiché in silenzio cammina il dolore e nel tepore del coraggio paziente e resistente, il silenzio sorride. Continua a leggere Silently
Ci sono storie che non vogliamo conoscere ma esistono e se esistono è per l’indifferenza e il silenzio che avvolge le vite comode e distratte di chi resta sul ciglio della strada a guardare spesso senza vedere.Non vi è dubbio che il libro di Gino Strada, “Pappagalli verdi” (Feltrinelli, 2000), sventri questo silenzio e faccia emergere tutto il taciuto sgominando l’indifferenza di ogni singola persona … Continua a leggere Gino Strada: Pappagalli Verdi
The disease is disorienting.It also confuses your own space of resistance because, often, you don’t have the energy to resist and the few that remain must be used to survive.What happens, then, when in your life “surviving” has never been the point of your being? When have you always made a difference between living and surviving as between living and just existing?It happens that your … Continua a leggere “Giulia” an Unheard Voice
“Punto pieno” ( Feltrinelli, 2021) di Simonetta Agnello Hornby è un romanzo (terzo della trilogia dedicata alla Sicilia e alla famiglia Sorci) in cui l’autrice, con grazia obiettiva e accurata, racconta di una Sicilia, ma di un’Italia e anche di un’Europa in cui il passare del tempo acuisce la difformità del tempo presente i cui orrori infliggono dolorose sofferenze alla bellezza dei luoghi e delle … Continua a leggere Simonetta Agnello Hornby: Punto Pieno
Fighting is never fighting for yourself alone, no one is the center of the universe. To fight is to share the reasons, the objectives, the results of common discernment. Lottare non è mai lottare solo per se stessi, nessuno è il centro dell’universo. Lottare è condividere le ragioni, gli obiettivi, i risultati del comune discernimento. Continua a leggere Fighting
There is a lament on the Earth that no one seems to want to hear. Everyone knows of its existence and they are aware of it, but few do their utmost to ensure that lament to cease and stop marking the worst of our failed humanity.It is the lament of injustices, exploitation, of the oppressed.A lament made stone-like, powerful and immutable, yet so fragile in … Continua a leggere A Moan on the Earth
Free I was born and free I want to die, free I am inside and outside of me. Happy 25th April. Libera sono nata e libera voglio morire, libera sono dentro e fuori di me. Buon 25 aprile. Continua a leggere 25 aprile 2022
Late last night, there was a strong earthquake in Bosnia felt throughout the Adriatic coast and also in Naples.The earthquake, the terrible devastator that in silence pierces hearts and memories.For those who have lived it and live it as an almost dayly presence, I think of my area of Campi Flegrei always subjected to seismic tremors due to bradysm, what strikes the most of the … Continua a leggere Earthquake
Caressed by the light of the sun, my orchids yearn for the smile of goodness of those who are moved and lost in simple beauty, yet find their way. An inviting oxymoron, since often getting lost is finding yourself, it is enough to understand what to look for, where the essential, what the gift of oneself to offer. Accarezzate dalla luce del sole, le mie … Continua a leggere It’s Simpler than You Think
Writing Is Testifying 