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sending you a very different hug, now
At a given time, in the most concise bundle of energy, of emotions, as the lightest of gestures possible, in the shortest form we have ever been able to convey — an sms, a short text — I may send you a hugSuch a short message differs greatly from the use of the phrase at…
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Garden
How is it possible that most humans, while breathing in the belief of being educated, successful, even free, do not have, nor care to have a garden?
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The artist is not free to do what he wants to do
The very first thing that a writer has to face is that he can not be told what to write. Nobody asked me to be a writer. I chose to be a writer. The one thing you have to do is try to tell the truth. In order to do it, when the book comes…
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William Tell (Rossini) premiered today in 1829
William Tell, German Wilhelm Tell, is the Swiss legendary hero who symbolized the struggle for political and individual freedom.The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was forced to shoot…
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James Baldwin *VIII 2 1924 / The Life You Give
James Baldwin, born James Arthur Baldwin on August 2 1924 in New York, New York, is the essayist, novelist, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him an important voice, particularly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in the United States and, later, through much of western…
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truth be thought
If we can agree that counting our current year makes reference to a much longer human presence and being than two-thousand and twenty-two cycles If we can agree that we retain all we have been — be it by reading about it, by being it, or both why hunger for a truth? If we can…
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