Another month is over.What is strange about the cancer disease is the awareness of limited time. It’s strange since everyone has limited time, but nobody pays attention to it. The cancer patient, on the other hand, knows it, he expects it… but in the meantime he gives meaning to his life which takes on a new meaning.In fact, he has difficulties, for example, when he … Continua a leggere Another Month
Starting the day with a blood sample is certainly not a pleasant thing, especially if it is one of the frequent ones that produces anxiety while awaiting the “judgment” on what will become of your body and your illness.Yet, even in this I feel I can say I’m lucky. Although my veins are difficult, despite always having to carry out the sampling on that single … Continua a leggere Nurse and Sick
How many times do you say “I’ve turned the page!”, but what does it mean?You can also turn your page in your life, even more than once, but does this really change your existence?Before us many white and empty pages to fill so that it is clear that they are new; behind, there are the pages already filled with a life that cannot be hidden … Continua a leggere Turning the Page
Sometimes disappointments take over and you can’t help but think of the many people who have disappeared like snow in the sun, but without leaving the same beauty in your eyes and in your memory.Then, however, one understands that it is better to focus on beautiful people, the real ones, who manage to offer the best of themselves and all their good simply and sincerely. … Continua a leggere Disappointment
Memory means taking charge of the history of the other. It doesn’t matter if we were there or not, it’s history and history belongs to everyone, it’s our baggage, it’s the ability to discern the rotten seed from the one that will bear healthy fruit.This is Memory, History and History cannot be denied even if there are those who try to hide it, even if … Continua a leggere Memory
Nel centenario della nascita di José Saramago, la Feltrinelli pubblica il suo primo romanzo assegnandogli il titolo originario voluto dall’autore, “La vedova”, e non quello con cui fu pubblicato per la prima volta in Portogallo, “Terra del peccato”.Così, in “La vedova” (Feltrinelli, 2022) troviamo la scrittura di un giovane Saramago alla sua prima pubblicazione. Non era molto fiero del cambio di titolo, come, forse, del … Continua a leggere José Saramago: La vedova
I strive to stay strong, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t keep my feet on the ground and be aware of reality.The strength, the energy to develop it, in fact, is generated by the thought of fragility and not by those of power, since it is on this fragility that more stable paths and more concrete objectives can be built, albeit close together over time.Strength … Continua a leggere Thorns
My fight for resistance gradually turns into a fight for dignity.There must be a point beyond which one cannot go, one must not go out of respect for the sick person and so as not to put him in a position to find himself alone in facing the truth that it pains everyone to recognize.Too often the cure can turn into excess, but this, if … Continua a leggere Fighting for Dignity
Sometimes I observe my life and that of those around me and it seems to me that I am watching a film in eternal rewind.And yet, I know, every life flows differently and digs the furrows of its time. Talvolta osservo la mia vita e quella di chi mi circonda e mi sembra di assistere a un film in eterno rewind.Eppure, lo so, ogni vita … Continua a leggere Rewind
Life is a path of waiting: waiting for the beginning and waiting for the end of everything.Waiting for the beginning is a formula for research and enrichment, waiting for the end is awareness and a proposal to be able to go one step further.Waiting should never be passive, neither in one direction nor in the other, because it is the responsibility towards the mystery of … Continua a leggere Waitings
Writing Is Testifying 