Tempo di lettura: 9 minutiToxic people come into our lives with all their traumas, insecurities, beliefs, and leave us in a state of depression, anxiety, stress, lack of self-esteem, to the point where we doubt our own mental health. By the time we realise it, if we realise it at all, we are already pretty battered. Friends, family members, colleagues: we can meet toxic people in any context, have had relationships with them for a lifetime or have only known them recently. A few […]

Tempo di lettura: 4 minutiAll right, here we go again. My last flight was in March 2020. Then life moved online, and my travels between Italy and Bavaria were by car. I had no problem experiencing what was fancy called ‘SOCIAL distancing’ but which in fact turned out to be just that: the physical distance, instead of giving rise to new forms of empathy in this society already severely affected by the chronic indifference syndrome, only amplified the existing. Those who were lonely remained […]

Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiYou can do what you can never do at Christmas, or you can do what you should do every day of your life, in order to make sense of existence: be aware that it is only through individual choices that you can bring about change and hope to reverse the course of a society that is dangerously slipping towards a degradation whose consequences can only fall on each and every one of us, bar none. If someone tells you that […]

Tempo di lettura: 18 minuti        “Don’t worry about your background. Whether it’s strange or ordinary, use it, build on it.”           Gloria Marie Steinem was born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo (Ohio, USA): she is a feminist activist, politician, journalist, supporter of the women’s liberation movement (’60s-’70s), a movement that coincided with the second wave of the feminist movement in the USA. Her life has been characterized by obstacles that have certainly made so structured her […]

Tempo di lettura: 10 minutiI’ve always loved that solitude that allows me to observe from the outside the world I live in: it’s solitude made of small things, observations, reflections, and fantasy. Exploring dynamics and people, the way relationships influence actions, the way stereotypes create the solid foundations of beliefs and rules that we often follow without asking ourselves too many questions, because we find ourselves in a vortex of words, noises, news, opinions to express, positions to take, “this and that” to share […]