Expectations
Expecting something from others is one of the most widespread illnesses of our time.
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Seminal revival: S.O.D.
It was the mid-eighties when a supergroup came into being: Stormtroopers Of Death.
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Truth and Beauty
We are spectators of a singular age in which the beings who populate the planet are overwhelmed by a materialistic, globalised ideology.
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Lotus Flowers
In the coming years our little lake will fill with lotus flowers, which we are planting these days using unconventional methods.
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Contemplation
The capacity for contemplation is a quality that needs to be trained. It means entering a space of listening, which some might call meditative, where the senses, completely open and relaxed, are able to pick up the smallest nuances.
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Room for dialogue and meeting authors
Among the other small but significant changes of the coming season, there will be more space for book presentations, for dialogue, and for meetings with authors or personalities who have something non-trivial to say.
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Intentions: promoting Beauty
As far as I am concerned, Beauty is not subjective. What we like is not necessarily beautiful, and the mere representation of one's own mental ruminations is not to be considered art.
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Intentions: our opening hours for the coming season
We are at the start of the season, and it is important to state our intentions. The intention that has always guided us is to make Cascina Bellaria the "little world we dream of".
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In Praise of Manual Skill
It is no discovery of mine that Italians now consider manual work degrading, and those who practise it a rung lower than everyone else.
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Sources of inspiration
Several people have asked me directly, or are indirectly wondering, why I publish on a venue's page words and images about more or less questionable figures, photos of faraway places, or take metapolitical positions that depart from the usual.
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Gasps of life
This week I read the news story of a 103-year-old woman who, with an expired licence and no insurance, was stopped while driving to visit her friends.
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Reflections on poverty
I am spending a few days in an African country. I observe with detachment. From a materialistic point of view, I am surrounded by what we in the West label as “poverty”.
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