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Purpose ...
This year I did not do budgets ... ... and even intentions certainly not everything went well ... but I can not say that everything went wrong ...
Let's say you went ... maybe I was able to "live" a little 'more intensely than before I left a few moments to run, but I'm not so sure.
I did not win, but I have not even lost.
And '"only" spent another year .. and what is takes me to the "door" ...
I found online of the "resolutions" universal, immodestly are allowed to translate ... I think these may become the targets of this year, at least for me.
Waiting
An empty room, twenty-eight pictures, a table, books and leaflets.
An hour, an hour will be inaugurated the exhibition and presentation of a book, my book Haiku.
Worried? Perhaps the most anxious and waiting.
Waiting to see what happens. Then there is the mixing painting and poetry, join the art as "small", at least in my case it may be, for other art.
Only, wait.
Soon I will not hide.
I want to live in the moment, moment by moment, then come what may.
Inconsistencies?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 27
"Everyone has the right to participate freely in cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to protection of moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. "
<<Everyone has the right to express freely their ideas
with speech, writing, and every other means of communication>>
Article 21 of the Italian Constitution, paragraph 1
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The Bill - Rules on Wiretapping etc.. , p. 24, letter a) provides:
"For computer sites, including newspapers and magazines distributed electronically, statements or corrections are published, within forty-eight hours of a request with the same demographic characteristics, the same methodology for site access and visibility of the same news to which they relate. "
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MAH! To me something does not ...
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Lesson No. 1
A man goes into the shower immediately after his wife and at the same time the doorbell ring.
She wraps a towel around the body, running down the stairs and goes to open the door is John, the neighbor.
Before she can say anything he says: "I give you 800 Euros in cash immediately if you drop the towel!"
Reflect for a moment and the towel falls to the ground ... He looks at the bottom and from the agreed sum. She, a little 'shocked, but happy for the small fortune earned in an instant was in the bathroom. The husband, still in the shower asks her who she was at the door. She says, "was John." The husband: "Perfect, I returned the 800 euros that I paid?"
Moral # 1:
If you work in teams, share more information!
Lesson No. 2
At the wheel of his car, an elderly priest is taken back to the convent a young nun.
The priest can not remove his eyes from her legs crossed.
Suddenly, his hand resting on the left thigh of a nun. She looks at him and
says: "Father, remember Psalm 129?" The priest immediately withdrew his hand and loses
a thousand pardons. Shortly after, taking advantage of a change of gear, let his hand touches the thigh of which unabashedly religious repeats: "Father, remember Psalm 129?" Mortified, withdraws his hand, mumbled an apology. Arriving at the convent, the nun goes without saying a word. The priest made a gesture of remorse educa rushes on the Bible in search of Psalm 129.
"Psalm 129: Go ahead, higher and higher, you will find the glory ..."
Moral # 2:
At work, always be well informed!
Lesson No. 3
A representative, an employee and a director of personnel leaving the office at noon and go to a restaurant when on a bench found an old oil lamp. The rub and a genie appears.
"Generally, three wishes, but since you're three, we have one each." The clerk pushes the other and cried, "it's up to me, to me .... I want to be on a pristine beach in the Bahamas, on holiday, without any thought that might disturb my peace." That said vanishes. The representative of crying "me, me, it's up to me! I want to enjoy a cocktail on a beach in Tahiti with the woman of my dreams! "And vanishes. It's up to you, says the genie, looking at the personnel officer.
"I want those two after lunch back to work!"
Moral # 3:
Always let the boss speak first!
Lesson No. 4
In class the teacher turns to John and asks him: 'There are five birds sitting on a branch. If you shoot a bird, how many are left? '
John replies: "No, because with the sound of the shot will fly all away."
The teacher: "Well, the answer was four, but I like your reasoning."
Then John says, "I ask you a question now?"
The teacher: All right.
"There are three women sitting on a bench eating ice cream. A lick gently at the sides, the second swallows everything up to the cone, while the third gives small bites on top of ice cream. Which of the three is married? "The teacher blushed and replied:" I suppose the second one ... that swallows up the ice cream cone. "
Jim: "Well, the correct answer was the one that takes faith, but ... I like the reasoning"!
Moral # 4: Let the reason always prevail.
Lesson No. 5
One day, a blind man was sitting on the steps of a sidewalk with a hat at his feet and a piece of cardboard that read: "I am blind, please help me." An advertiser who was passing by stopped and noticed that there were only a few cents in the hat. He leaned over and poured the money, then, without asking permission of the blind man, took the box, turned it over and wrote another sentence.
In the afternoon, the advertiser repassed by the blind and noticed that his hat was full of coins and banknotes.
The blind man recognized the pitch and asked him if it was he who had written on his piece of cardboard and above what you had written down.
The ad said: "Nothing that is not true, I just rewrote your sentence in another way."
He smiled and walked away.
The blind person never knew that on his piece of cardboard was written:
"Today is Spring and I can not see it."
Moral # 5: Change your strategy when things are not going very well and you'll see that later will be better.
If one day you will be warned that your work was not done professionally, respond to Noah's Ark was built by amateurs ... the Titanic by professionals.
To find the value of a year, ask for a student who flunked the final exam.
To find out the value of one month, ask a mother who gave birth to a child too early.
To find out the value of one week, ask the editor of a weekly magazine.
To discover the value of one hour, ask the lovers who are waiting to see.
To find out the value of one minute, ask someone who has just missed the train, bus or plane.
To find the value of a second, ask someone who has survived an accident.
To discover the value of one millisecond, ask an Olympic athlete who won the silver medal.
Time waits for no one. Collect any time you have left, because it has a great value.
Share it with someone special, and will become even more important.
The birthday
While gape
new page
to write
for this
new year of life,
a call comes
from the soul.
Not porgetemi greetings
and celebrations
not heard.
This' is not
from the heart,
strengthening the mine.
Voices of those who
by blood or interest
has crossed my path,
I are distant,
unnecessary;
and with fire,
draw up yet another budget
a year past, perhaps,
still not very experienced.
My memory of a great man.
Carry the article that was published in the "my" parish magazine.
I do not offend anyone and in any case, espirmo what I think and I feel.
John Paul II has certainly been a great man as well, in my opinion, a great pope
I would appreciate that the comments may be directed to what I wrote and its shape and not, as often happens, unfortunately, the "Church", the "priests", the "power" and so on.
I think people like Pope John Paul II can and should be judged on what has been done in their lives, as told, lived ... as correctly as is done with other figures such as Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Ghandhi, the Dalai Lama, etc. etc etc.
If I am asked to reflect on the figure of Karol Józef Wojtyla I can not think of a speech, but many small flash that together make up the figure of what they rightly or wrongly I consider "my" Pope
First song I heard in the head of Ming "A man came from far away":
"A man who leaves, dressed in white, for a thousand countries and never seems tired," as he traveled the world, this successor of Peter, bringing the Word and Love in every continent! Then I remember the evening of his death and the indecision whether to take the car and starting to go or stay at home to greet him, then even the funeral and that the Gospel did not want to stay closed his eyes and still full of life, his angry gesture the window when she could not speak, the election and that his desire and the humility to be a friend that "if I'm wrong I corriggerete".
Looks down other flash memory: the attack and the apprehension, the rod rotated at the World Youth Day, the anniversary of 2000 ...
Then again, other memories, such as waves, such as when someone thinks "family" that has left us ...
In my small way I was lucky because I managed to meet him 2 times, the first time in 12 years, in the Vatican gardens, as an altar boy when I went to Rome for the beatification of Father John Mazzucconi It was 1984 and I remember that, while visiting precisely the gardens, someone warned the Pope that there was this group of "boys" and he visited, including a commitment to another, he stopped us to thank us for the present, to greet and bless us and encourage us to continue our commitment.
The second time I met him was' for the IV World Youth Day in 1989 in Santiago de Compostela.
Aside from the unforgettable experience of that journey and pilgrimage, except for the first time I realized that the Church is truly "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church", I still remember the trepidation and anticipation of his arrival at Mount Gozo for the wake, and his words:
"To you young people, the task of you among the witnesses of the truth about the world today. It is a truth discerning, often contrasts with the views and the "slogans" current. But it is the only truth worthy of human beings, called to be part of the family of God! "
Words still existing in a world that perhaps has not yet learned to love.
Probably, as in a game, digging into memory other memories, gestures, words, glances, moments of life, would think of (for example, its too frequent visits to the "Vatican III" as he called the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, " Way of the Cross "at the Coliseum, including the last one he knelt in front of the TV, the first email sent, the live action TV by Bruno Vespa), but now, as the crowd called for from the moment of his, death, this servant of God is raised to the altars, facing a smile on my face and joy fills my heart because I feel honored to have, albeit briefly, my path crossed with a man who by his life and especially with the suffering of his last years has taught me not only with gestures and with words that "love and carry the cross" is not an impossibility, and that every man, because he remained a man until the last moment, and can must be "holy" without asking too many questions repaying the love God has for us, without "p aura to open, indeed throw open the doors to Christ, who knows what is in man, and that speaks to us with words of life yes, of eternal life! "
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We left in a black night like our skin.
In 150 a barcarole could not contain us.
All up, herded to fight the cold, with salt, against water, the fear.
The silence broken by the crying of any baby, promptly rescued by the mother's breast.
We have invested their life savings for a new life.
We do not even look in his eyes.
We left a past, our past, without knowing the future.
We try to sink the hopes of our raidici: faces, voices, mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, children left behind us ... so as not to risk it, but perhaps more likely that without us being able to swim the sea face.
We were told that we're going north, but is the north? The light of that bright star? A convention? A hope? Unknown?
He is no friend to the sea, swells, quacluno parapets now spews from rotten by salt.
Now someone shouts, someone please ...
I am 3 days we sail ... a little water, some dry bread roll ... nothing ... services when the sun rises, also burns our skin.
You do not see the goal ...
They call us migrants, refugees, illegal ... but we are only men in search of something better, a future.
We will content ourselves with the crumbs that fall from the tables of those who do not have the courage to look in the face.
Nobody will give us the dignity that we lost before even starting.
A noise, a lookout .... accompanying us, maybe not die in the sea even though we are already dead inside, we have sold his soul for a journey without knowing the destination.
I look up, even if not yet in August, I see my shooting star ...
Emotional concerns
We read and hear around great "concern" about the speech on nuclear power after what has happened in Japan.
For goodness sake, everyone is free to think and also do not think.
But I would like to do some riflesione that goes "beyond" the "emotional concern".
As already said I do not think that the Japanese are so "stupid" to build 53 nuclear power plants (not 3 ... but 53) on its territory (highly seismic and not much bigger than Italy) without taking the necessary precautions.
It 'obvious and plain to everyone that the Japanese earthquake is an event out of the ordinary and that surely has created against hope "serviceable" to one of the stations.
It 'obvious and plain to all that the center could not stand the shock of the earthquake and that now "there is" fear.
Do not deny it, but I'm not saying that "if they have earned," or, as I read around, and now they wanted nuclear power "made them" and fortune "are far away."
But I think sincerely that "we must look beyond" or, perhaps back.
Yeah, and then back ... I miss so much.
A year or even less.
No one remembers now what has happened in the Gulf of Mexico? But yes, we have a short memory ...
Yet there has been an environmental catastrophe and not only one of which has already ceased to speak, was "Put the cap", the operation is finished!
But all that "sea of oil" in the ocean, we know that the damage caused? Whether and how it has spread around the world, whether and how "we have to"?
And the dead over the years (or centuries) in coal mines?
Yeah, but the "nuclear" is scary ... and then clean energy, for example the water .... But nobody remembers the Vajont?
In my opinion, should be understood clearly and distinctly from the actual risk PERCEPTION OF RISK.
Now the perception of risk is high, because it just happened, because the idea of atomic energy is still linked to nuclear bombs, perhaps because energy is a "complicated" that little is known ...
But we have to put that oil in the head more or less short end and then "we do"?
We are afraid of the dead that there might be for nuclear power but we never speak of those who are killed each year for PM10.
Now I really want to say that nuclear power is safe, but that perhaps it is no source at the end (directly or indirectly), and then we have plants in France, Switzerland and Germany and the energy we buy (eg France).
Other speeches are on waste management, because "if we fail to keep clean Naples, who will waste"?
But here is perhaps not "our fault"? That we are not able to enforce our rights and our duties to fulfill?
Or anyway, and though we trust and we give power to those who "does not do things for our interest"?
You know that I do not like talking about politics and not vogliatemene, I would not open this discourse in political terms, but just thought I would leave a "detached" from what is happening in the land of the rising sun, then we welcome discussions on "nuclear yes or no nuclear "but only in terms of objective and real problems and not on what might happen, because then - excuse me so much - we should no longer use the machine (it has a tank that can catch fire, or in some cases, even in GAS) because there are many deaths a day on the roads? Even using gas cylinders in the house and even the gas "in the tubes" and, perhaps, should not be very well even wood stoves ... you never know ... ... a brand could set fire to everything!!
Not to mention the air or shipping disasters .... well ... the "risk" there is always, even to fall and bang your head ...
one five zero
Let us always remember to be Italian and not just every four years ...
Let us always remember that our strength also lies in our diversity
Let us always remember that someone has poured sweat and blood to make the nation and to ensure that it remained united against terrorism, the mafia, who think that "it is better to split."
Let us always remember that we have many dialects, but only one language.
Let us always remember that our beloved Italy is the country with the largest number of sites included in the heritage of humanity.
Thought should always remember that the VA is not a hymn but a World Heritage Po.
Remember to live, not just Italians remember days like today.
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In a rainy day, I imagine a rainbow to add 2 rivers.
Banks of different but equal join.
Hands stretch.
Penetrates the desire to not give up, even cling to the words.
I follow the rainbow to earth ... prejudice. gap between my colors, painting the face.
I think ...
I smile ...
I smell the air ..
I live ...
Salt on the skin .... footprints in the soul
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