“… Never thought I’d let a rumor ruin my moonlight well somebody told me that you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend that I had in february last year it’s not confidencial, I’ve got potential, a-rushing, rushing around…” Måneskin Hesitation is definitely the key-word for the opening of the Måneskin’s concert at Circo…
Author: Praise of Folly
Down to earth unstoppable dreamer...
• Fundamentally Idealist •
• Necessarily Pragmatic •
Nevertheless fascinated by a touch of insanity
Looking for an instant worth a life...
Mimi’s library
“Somewhere in a parallel world, you’d want me as much as I want you here and I’ll care not about your existence. For now, I breathe you.” Nitya Prakash I was unexpectedly with you, in your own place. I would have never thought it being so vast. The space is empty but it doesn’t feel…
WHY NOW?
“Two years ago I left on a trip, I disconnected, came back and COVID-19 invaded Europe. This year I left on a trip, I disconnected, came back and Putin invaded Ukraine. Next time I’m not coming back!” Me It’s incredible how things change from one moment to the other. Even though some things had been…
SUDDENLY BELONGING
“Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.” Brene Brown As I got out of the plane the sensation of the moist air on my skin hit my body before I could realise it was raining despite the sun. One of those moments that are so frequent…
December 30th 2021
Dear Diary, Another day passed. It was actually quite a good day. On my way home, i noticed the sunlight. A bit weird: only a few days ago it was already dark at 5 p.m. One guy was running without his t-shirt. 13 degrees Celsius. Not so bad for a December day in Switzerland. Just…
PARIS QUELLE NOSTALGIE !
“We grow up with dreams in our eyes and songs on our lips and we discover that life is not what we thought it would be. And then, we discover nostalgia.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez He kept telling himself that he shouldn’t have any prejudice and discover the city, but even walking thought the Latin…
VACCINATION AS A RESPONSIBILITY
See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large; go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture! ― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture! I, as many people, would have never thought I would be in the middle…
WELCOME 2021
It took me a while to know what I wish for 2021… I think II now know: I wish 2021 to be full of creativity. The creativity we need to find the solutions to go forward rather than those to go back! Mi ci è voluto un pò per sapere cosa mi auguravo per il…
COVID-19 VACCINE
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson 2020 will be remembered in the minds of those who lived it, in the clouded memories of children suddenly seeing masked faces, in the hearts of those who suffered solitude, in the…
RESIGNATION
resignation is the attitude of accepting something unpleasant because you cannot change it. I don’t know whether it is an act of accepting rather than enduring. I speak about RESIGNATION because I see it, I hear it, I feel it. I see resignation in the eyes of a 65 years old woman that for the…
reCONFINEMENT
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Karl Marx Dear Me, As you already know sometimes I just need to write things down to make sense of what is going on. So I decided to write you this letter thinking that maybe one day you’ll read it again and think of this moment….
MELANCHOLY
“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth’s orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself” Søren Kierkegaard There he was…
LOCKedDOWN because of a VIRUS
“During lockdown I’ve felt humiliated and offended because I could not go outside” – Andrea Bocelli These are the words the famous singer pronounced at a conference about COVID-19 in Italy which has already been renamed the “anti-COVID conference”. Furthermore the guy is getting killed over the web because of his words and there is…
CHANGING NEEDS CREATIVITY
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy Something is definitely true in Tolstoy’s quote and certainly many people would agree on this saying. Changing is hard and needs a commitment most people struggle to find and a constant motivation most people struggle to maintain. I was…
ACHIEVE THE (IM)POSSIBLE
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have Cayla Mills My dear friend, I’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other. Years have passed and certainly a whole part of our lives has gone by without each of us knowing the little details that make…
TAKE YOUR TIME
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that. George Carlin Time starts. Somehow, at a certain point, it just does and then it starts flowing indelicately and without…
ONE DAY IN COMO
If you are in northern Italy or even in Ticino Switzerland and you want to spend a different day visiting a new place or even just relaxing Como is the perfect destination. Como is a beautiful town on the famous lake that inspired Alessandro Manzoni, who begun his Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) with a homage…
ZURICH SUMMER VIBES
The city on the Limmat is one of the most attractive cities in Switzerland and certainly one of my favourite in terms of nightlife and fun. A week-end in Zurich or even a few days more is a must if you are visiting Switzerland. I highly suggest going to Zurich during summer as the sunny…
FEELING UNBORN
“Enjoy the sound of silence” Timothy Salter, Reflections in Short Poetry As he entered that place he was surprised by the silence reigning there as if the dimension of sound had never existed. He focused and listened to the silence. It had different notes compared to what he was used to. It was smooth just as…
VALS THERME
Vals Therme is an astonishing piece of art in the middle of the mountains in the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. They were conceived by the internationally acclaimed architect Peter Zumthor. Vals is a small village in the Surselva region located up in the mountains and easily reachable by car. You can also take the…
WATER SPORTS ON LAKE MURTEN
Lake Murten (Murtensee or Lac de Morat) is the smallest of the three lakes on the periphery of Jura. The Broye canal connects it to the Lake of Neuchâtel which further communicates with lake Biel. Lake Murten is actually quite shallow which means it’s also quite warm and you can swim in it from spring…
ESTABLISHING SOMETHING NEW
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new. Hannah Arendt I keep waking up in a world going mad. Every night I go to sleep not wishing tomorrow will be…
RAINBOW
“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart Another rainy day in Geneva. I hate it when the weather is bad. Everything seems so gloomy. You can’t even say it looks like fall as all the surrounding nature reminds you the contrary. Yes, it’s just…
HOLD
“Looking like soldiers waiting to drown And I’m not around no more Pictures of people that don’t make a sound When music’s around, stay warm” Simon Charles Green, No reason (Bonobo ft. Nick Murphy) I pressed the button hold and the world was on standby for what seemed an eternity. Time: months, days, hours, minutes,…
UNUSUAL EASTER
The Pope had just finished celebrating the mass yesterday when I called my Nonna to say happy Easter: “Hey Nonna! Happy Easter! How are you?” “Hey sweetheart! I’m fine, Happy Easter to you too! Have you seen the Pope? He’s just finished celebrating the mass, I’ve watched it on TV… The basilica was empty… Reality…
SPRING DELIGHT
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. Paul Wellstone Who would have ever thought I was going to spend Easter here in Switzerland? Well WE, I should say: the whole world is spending it in a confinement of some sort wether they are celebrating or not… The thing is I think I always made it…
CONFINEMENT
“Are you gonna be ok Ms Moon?” he asked. “I think I will…” she said with a smile that wanted to be sincere despite the sadness in her eyes. “You know” she continued “I’ve been worse, I’ve touched the highest point of degradation a human being could bare… I’ve walked naked in the street! Do…
Summer 1996
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” Mother Theresa My father often talked to me about his childhood. A childhood made of economical uncertainty and poverty. The daily struggle of my grandfather to find…
FRUSTRATION
“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.” Soren Kierkegaard Not an easy philosopher and certainly not a very loved one. Soren, my friend, no other description would represent the way I feel right now… Frustration is the right…
REALITY
“I want things to go back the way they were” My colleague Zoe I must have fallen asleep at 9:30 p.m. yesterday evening. I was watching a new TV series on netflix, which seems the only thing to do nowadays in the evening aside from video-calls… The series was actually quite interesting, I could write…
COVID-19
Athens was destroyed by the fear of the plague, not by the plague Thucydides 430 B.C. Home alone. No, I’m not going to talk about the movie. I’m just home alone tonight and it’s hard to go to sleep with everything that is going on around me. I probably should be going to sleep considering…
BRASILIAN VIBES
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde Do you ever wake up thinking you are somewhere else? A dim of sunshine came into my room this morning. it must have been early, too…
LOOKING FOR GABRIELLA
Te regalo yo mis ojos Mis cabellos y mi boca Y hasta el aire que respiro Yo, mi vida, te regalo… G. Ferri, P. Pintucci Finally home. I was travelling all day. Well, actually I was travelling for a while and now I feel I came back as if I finished designing a new circle….
LETTER FROM MOSCOW
I am not strange. I am just not normal. Salvador Dali Moscow, XX February 2020 Dear Mrs. Y., It’s been a few hours since we’ve said goodbye. Well not a real goodbye unfortunately, something I know I will always regret. Our paths separated yesterday but I do know that you are loved and that people…
SPEEDY BERLIN
The greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine. David Bowie A sudden change of plans lead me to book a 48 hours trip to Berlin. Of course, leaving in the evening after work, I booked a priority pass at the airport in order to get through security as fast as possible, I took a taxi…
FALL IS HERE AGAIN
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” Joe L. Wheeler I’m not usually a big fun of fall. It’s that period of the year when the days start to become shorter, the temperature starts to drop, the sun gets covered by clouds more often and the rain starts…
LUMINESCENCE MOMENT
It was 10 o’clock in the morning and he was still lying down on a cold bed in the dark shadow that the curtains provided. It was actually a one of those sunny days and fall was just starting. His gaze seemed lost, as if he didn’t know exactly where he was or what he…
OKTOBERFEST
“I don’t think I’ve drunk enough beer to understand that.” Terry Pratchett 50 minutes seemed like a few seconds on the plane yesterday. Geneva to Munich in less than one hour. I didn’t have enough time to realise we had taken off and we were already landing in Germany. In Munich for the first time…
JUMP INTO THE PAST
“I admired then, on the bottom of the water filling the port, a certain quantity of squared tombs almost all without their covers…” Emmanuele Mola I’ve always found archeological sites fascinating. The first one I visited was the Acropolis in Athens. I was 8 years old and felt so small in front of the Parthenon….
WALK UNDER THE STARS
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” Vincent Van Gogh Gradually the darkness invaded the sky. The hot afternoon sun slowly hid beneath the horizon line separating the sea from the sky. As the sunlight slowly diminished the stars became to shine. A beautiful…
SAILING
“When I’m out sailing, I don’t wonder what heaven is like because I know.” Anthony T. Hincks The sky was slightly clouded and the sun seemed to be hesitating between the clouds as if shyness had taken over in a lusty august afernoon. The wind, on the other hand, seemed to break through any kind…
CHILDHOOD DREAM
“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.” Michel Onfray The birds are singing again, another day is rising. The sunlight slowly penetrates through the window that was accidentally left a bit open yesterday evening. The cotton sheets caress my skin and I’m not quite sure…
COUNTRYSIDE
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.” Alfred Austin Not really an early morning as commonly referred to by those living in the country, but still an early morning for me… A…
LET THE FUN BEGIN
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.“ Robert Orben Summer has started since a few months now even though its beginning seemed quite turbulent. Finally the sun came out the days got warmer and warmer as my routine got harder and harder. These pas few months have been…
PROGRESS (?)
“These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.” Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter A man kept alive with a technological device. An essential machine. A survivor, one would say. An…
MOM IS SUDDENLY HERE
“I decided I’m coming to visit. I’ll be there tomorrow morning!” my Mother Improvising has always been one of my mom’s best qualities, especially when it comes to travelling. We have travelled a lot as a family, when me and my siblings were kids. Most of the time the trip was the journey and the…
VISIT IDEAS
“Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.” Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut Beneath our feet. Beneath that solid ground that seems so important to us. That same ground on which we stand. Ground, Earth, Soil with which our feet are constantly in contact. Imagination runs wild thinking of the layers under my…
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