This is the Moon from my balcony this morning. It looks like the Sun, but it is not. Maybe this wants to tell me something. It is a whisper, something I cannot completely understand. It is both a request and a call, it is ani invitation to enjoy the simple unexpected beauty which shows itself although everything seems to be dark as the darkest night … Continua a leggere When the Moon Looks Like the Sun
There is a feeling of impotence in the time we are living which is not due only to the pandemia in itself, but to a psychological condition which is telling us that nothing will be the same as always after all this, we will not be the same and it will not be the same the way we will look to one another. There are … Continua a leggere That Feeling of Impotence
Patience is not easy to acquire, yet it is the only way to keep in touch with what really happens to us. Patience is not the ability to way that something could happen without you do anything in order it occurs; patience is the ability to give your waiting a meaning. As a matter o fact, patience is never passive, indeed it is the way … Continua a leggere In Praise of Patience
What you think you want is not always what you really need. Let’s take the readings, for example. We think that relaxing by reading only means making fun of time and choosing what makes us laugh or what is fashionable, or what, while disappointing us, we cannot overlook because promoted by such or another VIP. Yet nothing we often read really enriches us. Enriching not … Continua a leggere Reading Honestly
Savor the magical beauty of these few words to describe the entire inner world of this king, Arthur, betrayed and deceived, as Tolkien narrates it in “The fall of Arthur”. He writes: “A while then Arthur /white with anger /there sat in silence“. Pale face of anger, can you perceive the profound beauty of this expression? Pale because the news causes him pain, he feels … Continua a leggere J.R.R. Tolkien: La caduta di Artù. L’incantesimo della lingua di Tolkien
When the moon goes wrong there is nothing you can do to change its course unless you patiently wait it to come back to its celestial mood which is your own mood. You know, there are those tears which cannot flow, they are the ones locked up inside your heart whose reason is so secret as nothing more secret could exit, yet, they refuse to … Continua a leggere When the Moon
How will we be tomorrow? How will we get out of all this silence? Will we be able to give voice back to ourselves? And that ourselves to whom we will give voice will be the true ourselves, the fragile and frightened one, struck and torn, yet courageous and patient, tenacious and consistent, or will we wear the mask of that always superficial appearance to … Continua a leggere The Day After Tomorrow
the picture is from Huffingtonpost.it (03/28/2020) In the unease time we are living, a message of worldwide view of our human condition has arrived from two people whose notoriety because of the task they are responsible of cannot be compared to the fame they both reach as human beings. I am speaking about Pope Francis and Sergio Mattarella, Italian President. It has been particularly interesting … Continua a leggere The World is One
There is a music in the heart that no one can hear except you. It is that music that gives sound to your days and gives the right rhythm to your thinking. Slow and melancholic in looking around you and discovering that there are greater discomforts than those you are complaining about. Sweet and passionate in observing that in complex situations the need for love … Continua a leggere Feed Your Hope
