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TIME’S FEAR

ENGLISH This Halloween, I dressed up like my second biggest fear: time’s fear. It’s so difficult to balance the anxiety of his pressure and the urge to live it to the fullest, right? Everything in this life is measured in “time spent”: in exchange for money in work, for love in friendships, for satisfactions in life. But no one has ever taught us the value of every minute we have, of this…

FROZEN I – my birthday

Part 1 – The beginning ENGLISH / ITALIANO sotto A month ago I told mine and my sister’s story, through Frozen, for the many similarities in common, starting from the end: the second film. Now I’ll tell you the beginning, Frozen I: the moment when something breaks, and its reconstruction takes years.In our history, this is not yet over. Elsa and Anna are two sisters forced to split up…

FROZEN II – our story

ENGLISH / ITALIANO sotto If you want to read, I’ll tell you my and my sister’s story.It looks a lot like that of Elsa and Anna.We already felt it ours at the first Frozen, although we were far from knowing that it would belong to us more than we could wish for.It’s not the classic Disney movie of a princess being rescued by a prince.Here the princesses save themselves, trying to clear from roles…

PARIS FOR YOU, MOM

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November 16. It’s a day in which, from 4 years today, something happens that makes it memorable. Or rather, after you left 4 years ago, Mom, we made sure that every year this day could be unforgettable in the best possible way. In the happiest of ways. This is what we should always do in life: take what we have, especially the worst, and beautify it. This year the Covid-19 forced us to…

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I’m ready for Hogwarts! This year for Halloween I decided that I wasn’t going to play a scary character, I wasn’t going to be a villain, or a monster from the Hades. This year, evil is already around us. Inside us. It’s much scarier than a simple dementor. And I want to face it. Fight it. We’re all in the Forbidden Forest and anyone we meet, in the shadows, could be a Death Eater, Aragog…

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The Widow. Amsterdam 2019, last year: I walked around the city in the mourning of my life, with the awareness of being there to redeem regrets. Of Mom for never having seen the Van Gogh Museum. Of Dad for not having brought her. And mine for not giving her the book from the museum she asked for. How absurd life is. I never imagined such a situation a few years ago. I alone at home, without…

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I don’t have a good memory. I don’t know why but I tend to forget the dialogues, the causes behind arguments, the problems, also many small details, often the faces. But I remember the emotions experienced, caused, connected, the way I felt in a place, the feelings after a conversation.

Years later, my memories of a trip, an occasion, a period are very much linked to photographs. I…

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June 10 is my Name Day, and for me it represents the official start of summer. Since 4 years I spend it in Positano. But not this year. These images date back to 2 years ago: my Dad was bedridden for 6 months, and our life was completely dedicated to him. I had started working from home, I only went out to go to the hospital, or pharmacy, or doctors, or supermarket. I cooked, cleaned,…

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In a delicate moment like this that we are experiencing, in which the whole world bends under the pressure of the coronavirus; where priorities are scrambled and distributed with thrifty attention; in which we are rediscovering the humanity of being all humans with the same limits and pains and passions; in which we are writing a piece of history; in which the perception that all…

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Things my heart used to know Things it yearns to remember And a song someone sings.

Anastasia has always told a story that I felt was mine.

Maybe cause Mom’s origins come from there; perhaps cause those customs, those habits, those ballets at the theater, that “Dasvidanya”, the story of the Russian Tsars, have always told me much more of that they were.

Maybe I see a…

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In the last year I had several facial problems and started to get more interested in skincare by creating a beauty routine that has incredibly improved my skin. Two rules are very important in its care, and both are often underestimated: sun protection and scrub violence.

Protecting the skin from the sun (both in winter and in summer) is one of the most important actions against…

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I lost the ability to perceive time, my brain has been unable to process temporal distances for the last three years. With the feeling of having just finished talking with Mom or Dad, but pervaded by a visceral nostalgia, which I can only explain by rationally recalling that 2016 has passed from three years and 2018 for one year. 13 July 2017. One year ago. A year ago we were in the…

25 years, a quarter of a century. The most important one. 

The one where I was born, I met and lost my parents, where I was formed, carefully chose my dreams, the people, the values, my way of being in the world.  In which I learned that case doesn’t exist, that life serves to grow, and one learns by falling and getting hurt, but with a smile – always.  That the love is a force that transforms…

«Take some more tea» the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. «I’ve had nothing yet» Alice replied in an offended tone, «so I can’t take more.» «You mean you can’t take less» said the Hatter: «it’s very easy to take more than nothing.»

I was Elsa (here), I was Maleficent (here), the Holy Death (here) and a painting by Lichtenstein (here). Every year with a specific reason. This year I’m the…

GOODBYE, DAD

It’s already 6 months, Dad. 6 months have already passed. It’s absurd, it’s really absurd the way in which time shortens our perceptions, the way in which it erases the moments and summarizes them in a few images, the way in which it seems to me that a lifetime has passed and at the same time that it was only yesterday. That you gone away too.

I sit down to throw up some thoughts. Although…