“I crawl like a snail”

She was saying after some time in her bed, when trying to move, with some difficulties and some pain.
But yet she was moving and she wasn’t complaining. Just shutting wide her eyes, when one was helping her getting up, or swearing if we helped her awkwardly.
She crawled like a snail.
But she did not stop.
I didn’t expect she could stop. I didn’t want to.

No weather for Lucania

We are now in 2010, but still, at TV weather forecasting, data from Potenza are often referred to as np (not received/non pervenuti) and I wonder why.
Which insurmountable impediment can repeatedly prevent that trivial information to get to the TV editorial desk?
Wouldn’t a simple telephone call be enough if other, more sophisticated means, fell short?
Meanwhile, we remain in the ignorance.
Take an umbrella ………

Shoot the poor

There are those incredible headlines for news regarding Lybian guards shooting on Italian fishers’ boat.
Almost all of them insist on them being fishers (and Italians) and not clandestines.
As it would be normal to shoot to a boat transporting clandestines, as if they do not count as possible human victimes.
Another war has started?

Cycles

Some issues come up cyclically.  On 27 April 2004 I wrote a blog called Home exchange. I proposed our flat in Barcelona in exchange for some place somewhere in the world.

This year we have experimented the exchanging, first at the Cervino mountain and then at Lanzarote and it worked well.

And there is this story I am writing on heritage’s abolition: started in Chad, carried on in Ivory Coast and now alive again, in Belgium.

Now and then,I find some notes or some letter where I am reflecting on ideas or activities that I am again dealing with some years later.

Bad, good?  Who knows?

Intellectuals

Where are there?  Why there are no more persons that people could listen at and may be disagree with;  respecting them anyway.

People who could take positions going against the mainstream but not just to be in the next TV show or to ‘cash up’ after few minutes.

Pasolini, Sciascia, Moravia: one could like them or not, agree or not , but they did exist and played a role.

Now their role is taken by comedians, TV figures and fotball players.

Intellect seems not to be a valuable asset for the future.  Poor us.

I had several good ideas for a blog note ….

…. but now I can’t remember any of them.

We went to Canarias, more precisely Lanzarote, and it was good, but this is not a meaningful comment.

Here in Belgium is raining and it is cold, but that is no news.

Our dog survived a first week into a ‘pension’ ….. who cares?

Finally, we will soon buy a cupboard. It will come from the same set as the table.  This is quite news, but dubiously interesting little away from the family circle.

I may remember afterwords.