Praise of Folly

GENEVA PRIDE

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Alan Moore, 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom Geneva has never been as colorful as this past week. The Geneva Pride has started on June 29th and ends today. For seven days rainbow…

GOODBYE KOSICE

“You can’t go home again” Thomas Wolfe Nostalgic thoughts are crowding my mind as I look out the window on the bus, I am riding to Budapest airport. The memories of the people I met, the friends I made, the adventures I lived, the sad periods I went through, the joy shared with those that…

CONGRATULATIONS MASSI!

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill Six years have gone by, and they passed so fast that it seems incredible today to be here in Kosice for your graduation ceremony! Six years ago, you were very brave! It takes a lot of courage…

GOOD LUCK

It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure. Ernie Harwell Four years ago, I just now realise and it just seems unbelievable! Yes, four years have passed since the day we met and a beautiful friendship was born… In a surreal…

SUNDAY IN LEUKERBADT

“Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.” Jack Kerouac, Book of Sketches I woke up, a first time, with the sun trying to shine through the stores of the bedroom and enlightening lightly the space. Of course, I went back to sleep at first, but the sunlight became slowly more intense and…

MEDIEVAL NIGHT

I like to fly close to the edge. I like to play with fire. Dean Ambrose Yesterday evening I decided to visit my sister in Martigny, a cute little town in Valais surrounded by green mountains, given the season. It’s always a pleasure to visit Valais. I love the scenery on the highway to get…

FIRST DAYS OF SUMMER

“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis…” Aimee Friedman, Sea Change Unpredictability has been this years motto since spring started: a time of uncertainties, changes, variations. From hot to cold, dry to wet, sad to happy, sunny to cloudy… Nothing seemed reassuring anymore, just as if nature had lost that cyclic habit we had grown used…

ART BASEL

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island Yesterday morning started as one of those days you just want to stay in bed under the soft sheets even if you are well awake and know something important is up. I finally managed…

SUSPENDED

Good composition is like a suspension bridge – each line adds strength and takes none away. Robert Henri The weather was uncertain, clouds were covering the sky and finally, as we were descending from our hotel to the lake, the sun came out. Everything suddenly looked beautiful. the nature was impressive. The grass was reflecting…

IMPRESSIONS

VISITING THUN AND INTERLAKEN A long weekend to explore a new part of Switzerland. Many options, one final destination chosen by pure chance. We arrived in Thun on saturday morning and after sometime spent in the traffic and trying not to get lost while driving I got off the car. The sight was spectacular, I…

WAVES

“Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.” Oliver Gaspirtz Summer seems to be late this year, the weather has been quite lunatic alternating warm days and very cold ones as if no sequence was previously there. What has he been complaining about?…

MY AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” Harper Lee, To kill a Mockingbird My American Experience started in august 2004 when I came to the US for the first time as an exchange student. I had dreamed of visiting the US since I was little. The symbol of this country to me was…

ONE YEAR AGO, TODAY

“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.” Thomas Campbell I woke up from a turbulent night. Turbulent, that’s the word. My sleep was unquiet, had my subconscious taken over my mind? I woke up to remember… Turbulent. No adjective can describe the sea one year ago tonight. Turbulent. Just as…

THINKING HAS NO BORDERS

“La pensée n’a pas de frontières…” a 93 years old woman Louise was lying in her bed that afternoon. As usual she had not eaten all day. She kept staring at the black TV screen in front of her, interpreting the reflections as signs from above. Faith was what had saved her from an unfortunate…

THOUGHTS

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind” Immanuel Kant I haven’t written for a while. I do not really know which impact that has. I’ve certainly kept in mind my ambition to share what I consider important experiences. I’ve not forgotten about this blog. At times everything seems to have priority and…

Waking up…

Soft sheets rubbing on my body, I do not quite understand where I am exactly. I start to hear the cars in the street, a few of them, passing once in a while as if a traffic light was letting them go at a set time. Tic, tac, tic, tac… a clock is the other…

NOTE TO SELF

Silence. I keep quiet. Not because I’ve got nothing to say, neither because I don’t think… I keep to myself, thinking I shouldn’t bother. No revelations, no news, I’m at the starting point: “what should I do”. I know what I feel and I don’t fear my feelings or my emotions. They can take their…

PERSPECTIVES

“Even if the window is the same, not everyone looking out sees the same thing: the sight depends on the look” (Alda Merini) Our emotional and affective state plays a key role on the way we see what surrounds us and on our perception in general. Everyday we are exposed to new stimuli, new ideas,…

HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times” (Aeschilus) There are people that choose to be happy. They know what happiness is to them and they make an effort to dedicate to such choice with loyalty and sacrifice. Others instead do not know what happiness is to themselves. They race looking for it, thinking…