Tempo di lettura: 6 minutiI sat down at my desk, and picked up my notebook and pencil as I always do so that I could sum up the story of the Non Una di Meno movement and lead you toward the national protest on 26 November in Rome. “Ni una mujer menos, ni una muerte más”. I wrote it. And I felt the need to stop as I often do these times. To slow down, to go inside things, into words, to inhale them […]
Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiI feel overwhelmed with grief, exhaustion, anger at this whole world that hates women. And I can’t get my thoughts in order. But I want to. I would like to find simple words, I would like to address a young woman or a young man these days: the witch hunt does not belong to a past far from your lives. It happens today, as you live your freedom in the certainty that it will last forever. It happens today as […]
Tempo di lettura: 15 minuti“Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.” – Ricky Gervais – During my childhood, my parents never avoided talking to me about death. I didn’t grow up in one of those family contexts where children are not made to experience mourning, loss, to preserve them from something that is part of the natural evolution of life, of every life. We are born, […]
Tempo di lettura: 8 minuti‘Self-care’: a term that has now become part of our everyday vocabulary, often abused and shredded by practical acts that have nothing to do with its profound meaning. ‘Self-care’: a term that has now become part of our everyday vocabulary, often abused and shredded by practical acts that have nothing to do with its profound meaning. I don’t have any desire to spread self-care practice suggestions; the web is full of practical tips by those who tell us how to […]
Tempo di lettura: 13 minuti“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. In existential […]
Tempo di lettura: 2 minutiWriting as a path of healing, self-discovery through the sharing of experiences, thoughts, practices Writing about injustices faced, about pain and joy, about doubts and conviction, about frustrations and unexpected discoveries Writing to find that our lives have so much to tell, to offer to those who may recognize themselves in little or great stories Writing to find that our lives have so much to tell, to offer to those who may recognize themselves in both great and small narratives […]
