I left my place of birth, Naples in 1999. Naples can be a cosmic joke, where the sacred and the profane, the beauty and the ugly, the kindness and the crime thrive side-by-side. A city of great contradictions, often incomprehensible place, simultaneously seductive, thrilling and bewildering. Naples has a reputation for trash and chaos which…Read more »
Nel mezzo del cammino umanizzante…
NON VOGLIO TORNARE ALLA “NORMALITÀ“ E tu?! L’intercalare “quando potremo tornare alla normalità” e “quando tutto sarà come prima” innesca una bomba ad orologeria che scandisce il tempo rimastoci. Una ripetizione cacofonica di una medesima pretesa: la data in cui l’Italia riaprirà e si potrà uscire di casa…in un tentativo al limite dell’etico di sobillare degli…Read more »
Letter from corona
STOP. JUST STOP. DON’T MOVE. IT IS NOT A REQUEST ANYMORE. IT IS AN OBLIGATION. I AM HERE TO HELP YOU. THIS MENTAL ROLLER COASTER HAS LOST ITS RAILS. NO MORE TRAINS, SCHOOLS, SHOPPING CENTRES, OR PUBLIC MEETINGS. I HAVE BROKEN THIS HECTIC HURRICANE OF FALSE ILLUSIONS AND OBLIGATIONS THAT PREVENTED YOU FROM RAISING YOUR…Read more »
In Italy at the time of COVID_19
Someday everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and enjoy life’s small joys while waiting for the big ones to come. Referring to this time as a difficult one is an eufenism… I am writing from Naples, in the South of Italy where the pandemic outbreak…Read more »