I breathe the breeze of the wind that caresses the curtains on my window, I observe the flowers and leaves of the plants on the balcony that, shaken by the disturbing breath, come close to each other as if to support each other and make themselves stronger during the storm.The moon, sister, is hidden by the gloomy and mournful sky of thick clouds that no … Continua a leggere An Unusual Storm

School begins, but, in reality, school never ends, because school is not just staying on the books to study, but making sure that those books, words, stories, come out of the wrapping that contains them and enter the heart of those who have visited them.We must not “do” school, but “be” school, build school, bear witness to school, promote school.Life is what one encounters in … Continua a leggere Going Back to School

When we run after death, or death runs after us, every celebration is charged with strong and, dare I say, transcendental emotions.The fear of separation, the dismay of being able to divide, make the celebration deeper, emptying it of the memory pronounced but alive in the minds of the celebrated, to fix the present moment and make it “forever”.The days, the years that have passed, … Continua a leggere Thinking About Memories

There are sleepless nights, nights of anxiety, nights of distressing waiting for the result of a CT scan that will say its word about you, which will decide for you at what point in your life you have arrived. These last few nights have been nights like that.Then, suddenly and at an unexpected time, the solution. I consult the report page of the diagnostic center … Continua a leggere Suspended by a Thread

Sometimes it seems like you were wrapped in anxiety.There are days when everything seems more complicated, your own breath is. These are the days when that anxiety appears and doesn’t go away even if you immerse yourself in the actions you love the most.It is the anxiety of those who, knowing full well that they are always in the balance, accentuate their feeling of suspension … Continua a leggere Wrapped in Anxiety

For many, today is a day of return to work and among the many, many are not happy with it.I, on the other hand, like every Monday for months and months, have my blood analysis, a card that I wish to no one, a routine without dialogue or meeting in which, however, everything depends on that platelet count that must decide whether to continue or … Continua a leggere Vacation

I believe that there is a veil of melancholy that everyone carries within himself, the veil of the elusive.It means finding yourself in a phase of creativity and perspective (melancholy, in fact, is the possibility of giving shape to the new), but not being able to grasp the end of the thread that will lead to the dissolution of the inner tangle that weighs on … Continua a leggere The Melancholy of the Elusive

Cancer has taken a lot from me, cancer has given me a lot.No, it is not a paradox, on the contrary, it is simply the life that reveals itself by revealing its multiple possibilities and inviting us to welcome and understand them. Being able to love every nuance of this life is an added gift for which I am grateful.So the cancer took a lot … Continua a leggere An Unexpected Gift

I hold the meaning of life tight in my heart, I appeal with all my strength to the thought so that it always knows how to give life a meaning and does not abandon me in the nothingness.Then I think that my usually innate search for meaning is not widely shared and has isolated me from those who, while complaining about it, have chosen to … Continua a leggere The meaning of Life