Friday, September 29, 2006

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charming "Villa The Watchtower" in the garden

Dear Elf Friends are gone for four months, but now I'm back to writing, you ask where I was over? Here's the answer: I have studied and passed the exam to become a "Food & Beverage Manager at the Vocational Training Centre of the Municipality of Florence and spent more than two months working in a dream hotel" Villa The Watchtower. " An ancient Florentine home of the nineteenth century, overlooking the hills overlooking Florence, was transformed into a five star hotel, with 18 exclusive rooms and restaurant "Onyx", winner of a prestigious Michelin star.
The villa is set in a lush garden next to the Piazzale Michelangelo with a breathtaking view over the city, but the beauty of the place is only the frame, the picture is the environment with the many characters that animate it.
This article is dedicated to them, colleagues and friends with whom I shared a delightful time, I felt warmly welcomed in a big family, co-ordinated with enthusiasm and determination by the director Samuel Porreca. The debut was with the breakfast service and met Raffaella, always happy, joy radiates from every pore and you know the joy is contagious. Raffa is the queen of the cafeteria, his cappuccino is from "Oscar"! Moreover, the Neapolitan origins give it an extra touch that instils in that cafe, decorated with a foam perfect compact ... Customers love it for its way of making nice, but not intrusive and feel pampered in the morning. Begin with breakfast in the room "Aurora" is like saying "good morning" in Florence. The buffet is great and the equipment is in summer on the terrace, the birds flying around the trees and pecking on the lawn to English, in the background the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, Giotto's bell tower .... a paradise full of smiles and kindness. The warmth of in reception, dressed up with great professionalism, through the smiling faces of Carolina, Marie, Serena and almond eyes of Miyako, which adds some calmness East. Do not forget their male colleagues, I greet the dear children of the reception, the porters and cooks very kind of the cafeteria, the head waiter that attended a special hug to the boys with whom I worked in the room, Vasile, Nicholas and Andrew. Thanks to Isella who is a teacher of perfection in table service, the fantastic leaders and Anna Maria, a fond memory for all the maids and magical Stefano maintainer.
You all know very well that my heart beats for the kitchen staff of the restaurant, which overlooks the veranda the beautiful garden and pool. I was admitted with Aurelie, Strasbourg French sweet intern, to work for a short period in a hotbed of high-level designs, to suit the most discerning palates. It is not easy to manage a kitchen star in an environment of reduced size, but the chef Andrea Accordi knows how to combine the ability to manage human resources to the creative. In the menu tastes of Western cuisine are enhanced by the skillful use of spices and Asian influences resulting from years of experience abroad, particularly in the restaurant at the Royal Meridien Phuket Regatta. The kitchen staff is very well-matched with the likeable Luke, Mark and Stephen, assisted by interns. A special mention to the excellent
Massimiliano Blasone, an acrobat, pastry, her cakes are a feast for the eyes and the palate. Decorating is an art that reaches the absolute top pastry chef in ability and was fascinated, so you would not want to destroy the wonderful buildings, but then takes over the gorge and is a triumph of taste ... Dear Max, thanks for your pastry classes, see you, Andrew and great guys to work in the kitchen was an incredible experience!
I hope I never have missed anyone, you know that I miss everyone and I'd love to work with you!
forgot ... a very special thanks to prof. Ivano Bencini who sponsored my application to the stage in the enchanting "Villa The Watchtower."

Saturday, April 29, 2006

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Return to the home of my childhood is always a joy, between the old walls and I feel protected emerge memories of happy days, no worries, where the quiet life flowed between games and carefree laughter of children chasing each other in the garden and in the park, happy to be immersed in a small enchanted world.
The garden now looks devastated by the snow that fell this winter is abundant, they make me tender trees with branches broken off, bent by the weight of that snow white and soft, light in appearance only. The large magnolia
which has more than one hundred twenty years he suffered several cracks appear on the trunk, large branches with the leaves already dried hanging here and there, but I'm sure it will bounce back after pruning and I shall see the sun shining, the leaves deep green, glossy and smooth on a side, opaque and smooth on the other with brown hue. I will always remember the magic of a summer night under the full moon, the bamboo reeds shaken by the wind trembled. The pale light of the moon was reflected on the shiny leaves of the magnolia, the big white flowers give off a heady scent that mingled in the night, I had long remained on the terrace, making wind the breath of the wind and kiss by moonlight .
I venture into the reeds, that desolation see those tall pipes broken and bent, but the bamboos are regenerated and the old roots will be born other shoots, rispunterà a new life, the human being in the throes of a passionate love can be left devastated as the reeds in a snow storm, my heart bleeds, but then the wounds will heal and return to live increased from the experience of love that has changed the way we see and face the world.
the most important thing in life is to love and feel loved, even stories that belong to our past leave us in emotions and memories, which remain dormant for years, then suddenly reappear and go back to their mind unfulfilled desires, remained in the limbo of the imagination, which can drag us into unknown horizons, beyond the clouds, where you chase the dreams of today with those when we were children, who c'inseguono adulthood.
As a child I always admired the butterflies in the garden even now if they meet the beautiful wings with white or colored, when the sun is too strong taking shelter among the trees at sunset and reappear.
Last summer I was on the terrace, just before sunset, I was enjoying the last warm rays of the sun with his eyes half-shut, suddenly appeared two white butterflies that hovered above me and then they were running among the leaves of the reeds that feed into the terrace: butterflies were in love. Joined, then happily parted, and went to brush stroking with wings, then rejoins with infinite a lightness, I was enchanted thinking it would be wonderful to make love imitating butterflies, as in a dance.
starts to rain, I have to go back home, takes a strong wind, the distant glimpse of the lake choppy waters wide, the water also seem to want to get out the hidden passions, but then the wind fades and the back surface of the lake placid with the golden hues of the sun disappears, little by little, behind the mountain tops. Night falls in a quiet place where nature is still untouched.
dawn run the window to open the shutters, I am delighted to contemplate the beauty of the mountains that crown the lake and the snow reflected the rosy light of dawn. The sky is clear, no clouds and the swallows darting in front of the window showing the white breast, full of life. You can hear the chirping of birds of many species that have found refuge in the garden and the park that is a bit 'left, the morning waking up is always enlivened by their music, music that wraps you in harmony with the beauty of Creation .
I love the garden of the birthplace, the spring has white flowers blooming shrubs that contrast with the green hedge of box, next to the lilacs the reeds are in full bloom and the fragrance spreads in the air, will be faded in a few days, but already the hydrangeas are preparing to shower him with rose petals and the life of the garden continues. In the book "Wisdom", which contains the thoughts of teachers in India, I read a wonderful reflection of Mata Amritanandamayi:
"Life is like a garden: it is quite normal for the leaves to dry and the flowers fade. Only if we clean up the decay of the past can we truly enjoy the beauty of new leaves and flowers. Similarly, we clean up the mind from the darkness of bad experiences of the past. The memory of life is forgotten. Forgive what needs be forgiven and forgotten what it is to forget. Embrace life with renewed vigor. We will be able to face every moment of life expectancy with renewed just like a flower blooming. "
Today I want to be a lilac, or pink hydrangea tomorrow ... my life goes in a renewal of blooms.

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

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Together for Peace

The earth needs our help because it is a planet in crisis. A Florence "Terra Futura", international exhibition and conference for the sustainability of good practice for three days, thousands of visitors have flocked to visit the many stands of organic products, fair trade, ethical banking, specialized publications, products recycling, green architecture, cleaners and toys clean, voluntary organizations, representatives of regions, towns, cities ... The program
a reflection of EF Schumacher: "Our job is to look at the world and see it whole, we must live more simply to allow others simply live, "an invitation to spend less, save valuable assets such as water and share resources. A
per hour debates, lectures, panel discussions on topics as diverse but with one goal: to improve the quality of life of men respecting the earth and narrowing the gap between poor countries and industrialized ones. Now in its third edition of the show had an audience considerably, many children in the square happy to see cows, sheep and lambs meekly allowed themselves to ride donkeys and pet, but also a lot of noise and hum.
oasis of tranquility in the octagonal room where friends of the "Temple of Peace" organized an area of \u200b\u200bspirituality, interfaith prayer and meditation on the theme: Together for Peace. I was happy to hear so many witnesses, including friends Coccheri Paolo, Antonella Candles, Julia Bolton Holloway, Marco Romoli, president of "A Time for Peace".
The most intense and exciting was the meeting with Father Alex Zanotelli, a Comboni missionary, who wowed everyone with his words directed to people's hearts. He began by saying that beauty was in being gathered together, people from different religions, the richness of diversity. In the face of our society is denied, but it is enriched only in the exchange of personal experiences, in making contact with the other's face. "To face must be committed to the faces of others and experience the diversity of life, my way of life has been profoundly missionary, but if the missionary is not the case converted and the conversion takes place when you can smash your ego and your walls and other meetings that different from you. "
The best matches of his life were with people of other religions, "the other is the wealth and rich for you, that different from you. There will never meet by chance, every encounter in life is a mystery, you are together and touching each other ... In my moments of lucidity I wonder: Who am I? But who am I exist in relationship with others ... Each of us has a unique face and unique. "
Unfortunately in our society today we have a culture so overpowering and instead we need to rediscover the uniqueness of each of us, but do not transform into atoms because "the atom is loneliness." We have to meet the gaze of his brother and sister I do not support or condone, but to find the wealth of the other "because" there is no humanity if not in the plural. " We must rediscover what the bishop called Tonino Bello "the coexistence of differences." Even in the search for God we need to deal with others because no one possesses absolute truth, however, each research must be taken from other cultures and what they have built the way of truth: "God does not have, you do not have the truth ".
Many suggestions have been left by Father Zanotelli, his stories of the experience in Africa, the message of hope left for women who have great wealth in their deepest essence: tenderness, "if he wins the empire and patriarchy, machismo, now it takes the woman and her tenderness."
could not miss the accusations about the situation today where you can not go around as if nothing had happened, without thinking about the incredible crisis in the southern hemisphere where the poor are getting poorer, without worrying about an ecological crisis that is unprecedented, with a planet where life may end and then we must act. The job of a preacher is not only based on faith, hope and charity, you could say that it must have courage, but to say "courage to Today is not challenging enough, now it takes bravery and a holy rage, rage for justice that are prostrate on the streets, angered by the looting of the world, anger for children dying of hunger, anger for the folly of militarism .... "
The message is clear, also to be advocates of peace should act recklessly, let's do it: the earth's future is in our hands.

Monday, March 20, 2006

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grass

We really spring, even if the weather is crazy, just as you would expect for the month of March, a bit 'is cloudy, cold and windy, but then along comes a beautiful sunny day and the nature ride reach out the sky blossoms of plum, peach, apricot ...
Vincigliata on Saturday was a triumph of color and I photographed the soft violet of the "garden of the soul" that I sent today to the girls of course "Food and Beverage," which are closely linked. We're good together, we can shoot out joy and was funny to see us together on Friday afternoon visit to the salon "Firenze a Tavola," Frank tried to imitate, the teacher of enology, the professional tasting of wines, but after the third tasting pseudo sommelier had turned into a merry band of young girls on a school trip, laughing and joking and commenting on dips Salsette Calabria, more Hot or not, or equipment for boards of noble ladies, with embroidered tablecloths and starched, gleaming silver and crystal, fine china items ... so beautiful to behold, but that had little to do with our lives in the name of a hurry, where we use plastic mats, unbreakable glasses, cutlery and dishes in the dishwasher to hunt quickly without too many precautions.
The haste is what Western civilization breaks down irreparably, his friend Paul is right to propagate the movement "from the slow" because today we go so fast that it is almost impossible "to pay tribute to what we encounter and could arouse our wonder ... should be able to enjoy the poetic sense in reading a few pages of a book, watch a flower, caressing a dog, have a chat with a friend, opening a space for contemplation, gratitude, understanding, have the sublime sense of wonder and surprise to return to us by life. " These words of Paul
put them into practice when they pulled the plug from the city and its pace accelerated and clipping me three hours to take refuge in the calm of the woods and olive groves of Vincigliata rediscovering the value of silence and contact with the mother land, writes S. Francis "sustains us and governs us and produces various fruits, colored flowers and herbs ....
I love the color of grass in the spring, I love the contrast of the tender green of the grass, new lives are born and move in the wind of existence with the brown trunks and silvery olive trees, some centuries old, the rough bark covered with moss, witnesses to the wisdom and symbols of peace.
few days ago in a television broadcast remembered the last months of life by Tiziano Terzani, in contemplating his happiness, and fully immerse themselves in nature, the decisive step is the abandonment of ego, what binds us, preventing us from identify with "a blade of grass," we must completely cancel the ego to fully enjoy the beauty of creation ...
can not imagine the beauty of the feeling of being part of creation, the moment when we leave our thoughts and we get hard to listen to something much bigger than us. We walk with awareness among the young blades of grass at every step feeling contact with the ground beneath our feet, a land that is alive, button ... and we breathe with her, the beating of the heart, our breath is in harmony with the breath of life of the blade of grass swaying in the wind of spring. So Saturday I was in the midst of olive groves Vincigliata, I was alone and so happy that I started running, shouting "I love you" to God and the beauty of nature around me ...

Sunday, March 12, 2006

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in the Clouds Wind

A day of strong wind, as you rarely see in Florence, it's cold and it feels good in the sun. The sky was clear that the morning is filled with clouds, but I do not give to go for a walk in the woods Vincigliata, elf like I need air, contact with the trees, the earth, I love the smell of the grass, look at the flowers that shyly beginning to appear, as if to show that spring is coming, even though winter still does not want to go.
involves Valentina, who like me loves to walk, and we venture into the woods, we are well covered, the wind is cold, it begins to sleet, but the path we are protected by cypresses and does not feel the cold, we arrived in the clearing olive trees and we stopped to enjoy the peace resting on a trunk rough: it is wonderful to observe the landscape. The silvery leaves of olive trees move in the wind, like the tops of cypress trees, but in clearing the wind is slowed down as his voice is heard only in the forest, combined with that of birds. Sleet
stronger, the sky is leaden, even if the sun tries to peep, as the wind pushes a small flurry of snow crystals that we invest in, laugh and walk faster to reach the church of S. Lorenzo and S. Maria a Vincigliata and find refuge in the rectory. The garden, with Paul that I have dubbed the "garden of the soul" is full of violets, make me tenderly, in the garden peach and apricot are already flowering, hopefully not freeze tonight. Come back
the sky opens, the wind pushes the white clouds that follow in the blue above the treetops, I am reminded of the "Canticle of the Sun" by S. Francis of Assisi, where he praises the Lord for "Brother Wind and air, cloudy and serene, and every time." I love the wind that managed to wipe out the gray clouds and brought the white, turning a winter afternoon in a windy and cold spring. I arrived home to find the email that Valerie had sent me when I confided that I loved the white clouds, are thoughts that I shared by Osho first moment:

A white cloud is a mystery: his arrival, his departure, his very existence. A white cloud exist without any roots, is a phenomenon rooted out, that does not rely in any place, or rather, rests not in place. But even so, there is abundant and exists in the form.
All of life is this: without roots, without cause, without purpose: it exists. Exists as a mystery. A cloud has nowhere to go. It moves, it moves on all sides, mistress of all sizes, as well as directions. Nothing to be prohibited. Everything is there, in full acceptance.
The clouds do not have their own way: drifting. Means having a path somewhere. The real path is a path without direction. Move, but without intent to maturity; move without a rational decision.
why I call my journey "The Way of White Clouds." I like that you were like the white clouds drifting in the sky. They drift, do not make for a point. Wherever you are, what is the goal. The goal is all the time: the path is the goal. Transformed into white clouds. Stay only there, do not resist, do not fight: just enjoy life, celebrate the moment, the pleasure, the ecstasy of life. (Osho)

would be wonderful to be transformed into a white cloud ...

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

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Women, women simply

I wanted to not write anything for this March 8, Women's Day celebration which frankly leaves a bit like 'bitter taste in the mouth, since it commemorates a massacre, better to call it simply "women's day", as says my friend Amalia sculptor ... but then came the e-mail addresses of friends, text messages on your phone, Lamberto and Augusta that give me a beautiful bouquet of mimosa, freshly picked from the tree of the garden ... I shared with all the nice girls that attend the course "Food and Beverage Manager."
The girls and women I call because we had so much fun together and look like eternal teenagers, who have not lost their childlike innocence, always ready to laugh and joke for a joke, Maria Lucia now has crashed, you are strong, dear Gwendolyn, as I have dubbed the teacher of wine!
Do you find yourself catapulted into the atmosphere of this day so let's not forget these women, just women who struggle, love, suffer, cry, smile, make children and raise them with love, work and do things two thousand ... because women do not stop ever, are always in a hurry. When you are down, they find the strength to rise again, as I wrote in "Hope Floats", in which I quoted the passage Cugia Diego, alias Jack Crowd, dedicated to "Women in rebirth." Reread it if you feel torn down, a woman always gets up again, even after the worst falls.
He wrote well in three rows Valentina recalled how women must be both "strong and brittle, always somewhere in between being a woman, having to have the balls of a man and will remind the world that we females also. "
To all of you, dear friends who read me, the vital words of Teresa of Calcutta, devoted to women who do not have to give up ... never

Women only phenomenal

Keep in mind that the skin makes wrinkles, hair becomes
white
the days turn into years .. But what
which is important not to change;
your strength and your conviction does not have age.
Your spirit is the glue of any spider.
Behind every finish line is a line of departure.
Behind every success there is another disappointment.
long as you're alive, feel alive.
If you miss what you were doing, go do it.
not live on yellowed photos.
insist even if they expect dropouts.
not let it rust the iron in you.
Make sure that instead of compassion, take you over. When
because of the years you can not run, walk fast.
When you can not walk fast, walk. When
you can walk, use the stick.
But do not hold back ever!
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Monday, February 13, 2006

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Air Spring Hope Floats

For more than a month I go to Vincigliata not, but yesterday the weather was so bright and warm that I could not resist the lure of the hills and I dragged with me Valentina, who was enchanted by beauty of the landscape. The forest smells of moss and wild, the clearing of trees, which I had last seen her covered with white snow, is covered with a cloak of bright green grass, the color that announces the spring, we lie in the sun Silence only hear the chirping of birds and the distant tolling of bells. Taking the road stopping time to time to enjoy peace, enjoying the first daisies peeking down the path. Further we arrive at the abandoned chapel in the meadow among the olive trees, the hedge of rosemary is filling up with tiny blue flowers, the fragrance is very intense and wonderful breathe leaving kiss from the sun is so hot that you are fine without jacket.
the lawn sprouting buds of yellow buttercups, are still closed, waiting to open a few more days of sunshine and pay their pollen to the bees already flying on the hedge of rosemary. When I see bees I can think of Gibran's verses from "The Prophet":
"the pleasure of the bee is to collect honey from the flower, and also the pleasure of the flower is to give up her honey to the bee. Since the flower to the bee is the source of life, for the flower bee is a messenger of love, and to both, bee and flower, the giving and receiving pleasure is a need and an ecstasy ... Be in your pleasures as bees and flowers. "
I like the idea of \u200b\u200bthe bee as a messenger of love and tomorrow is a day dedicated to lovers of the earth, but I wish he had lived with feeling and emotion, not as a commercial moment with gifts of silk cushions shaped red heart, perfumes, chocolates and scarlet roses. Perhaps the bees and flowers can make us understand how live with passion, joy, pleasure, sharing ... a love relationship, here's a little story that I dedicate to lovers.
last spring in the forest of wild Vincigliata watched a bee on a flower pink with lots of pollen and pistils incantai me to see what the bee was focused on that flower. With deviated legs gently and then sucked the pistils happy, enjoying a moment flapping wings of pollen received and then came back with its feet on another pistil of the same flower, sucking again, then went to another pistil, and so on for many times. I love to observe nature, without haste, you will learn many things, nature is the teacher of life, particularly because it was quell'ape the flower had been so long, when I left she was still on the flower ... faithful to that flower.
I came to think that love is like an ape man and woman is the flower, the pistils were the years of love to last forever to be fed, the pair is especially important that the woman commitments to keep alive the relationship because men are lazy in this, it must prevent you run out of love for pollen hold on his bee, and in turn the bee should not flit from flower to flower, but remain faithful your flower ...
you got the message my dear love, love certainly is not all rosy, and often we suffer of evidence, but he is right Gibran, the important thing is to love and embrace strongly the feeling that binds us to the beloved: "When love is calling you follow it, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you surrender to it, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound and when it speaks to you believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. "
Spring is coming, in our inner garden prune the broken branches from the north wind, sweeping the fallen leaves, plant flowers in the sun and smile that brings fresh air, all sprout, flourish again and the bloom of new love ...

Saturday, January 21, 2006

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The beginning of the year was troubled, the rare happy moments and many disappointments that I'll break your heart in two, and you can not rincollare the pieces, but a voice inside tells you that you have to do as we sometimes do not never have to end, life should be lived with courage, love even when you feel unloved, because that stops loving their impoverished existence. We love without considering that the intensity of feeling makes us vulnerable, no matter continue to love.
Never lose hope in life should not be overwhelmed by adversity, they strengthen us. We can be hurt, to pieces, like the warrior after a hard fight in which has been defeated and he risked his life, then retreats to heal the wounds and preparing to be reborn to face the world boldly, to start life anew.
I met several friends and all, more or less, are in difficulties in family relationships, at work ... some seem to be on the verge of giving up, try too much from life and then dedicate it to them and to you women of all ages that I read a book written by Jack Crowd was able to deeply understand the feminine universe. The title is "Women in Renaissance and thank Valentina that made me know, I liked these lines from the first moment when I read them:

More sunsets, most of the flight a bird, the wonderful thing of all is a woman in rebirth. When they stand up after the catastrophe, after the fall. What one says is over. No, never finished, for a woman. A woman always gets up, even when he does not believe, even if you do not want. I speak not only of the immense pain of those injured by anti-personnel mine that gives you the death or illness. I'm talking about you, that this period never ends, you're playing there in a difficult job, which is a test every morning, worse at school. You, implacable judge of yourself, as your boss that you decide if you will look at or if you have to condemn.
So every day, and this novitiate never ends. It is you who you last. Or talk about you, you're afraid even to sleep with a man that you are terrified that a story will take off the air, because you do not flirt with anyone from entering the terror that someone in your life. Worse, if we remain caught in the middle you, then you suffer like a dog. Are you tired there is always someone with whom you have to justify that you want to change, or that you have to change for you tenertelo close.
So you're cultivating the loneliness inside. Yet you tell it, I will also say when you talk to the other: "I'm fine. I'm okay, I'm better this way. " And the sky falls by another palm.
Or with the guy you love to distraction. In man we've thrown in the soul, and it's been so long, there have thrown so much blood that one day you begin to look for you in the mirror because you do not know who you become.
Whatever the case, now you're here and I know there was a moment that you looked down and my feet were in cement. Wherever I was, we were close: In your story, your work, in your solitude. And it was a crisis. And you cried. As God cry! Do you have a water source in the stomach. You cried as you walked into a crowded street, subway station, on the motorcycle. So, suddenly. You could not hold him. And that night you took the car and you drive for hours, because the air dark you wipe your cheeks? And then you've dug, you have spoken. As you speak, girls! Tears and words. To understand, to pull off a six-meter long root that gives meaning to your pain. "Why do it? How is it that I always repeat the same pattern? Am I mad? "If you are asked for all.
Then go down with the bulldozer in your story, two-, four-hands, and jump out thousands of pieces. An intricate puzzle. Here, this is where it starts. Did not you know? It is from that large liver that you want us to look like that, fragmented in a thousand confetti, it starts again. Why does a woman again, however, has an instinct inside that will drag on and on.
You will need a strategy, you'll need to invent a new form for your new you. Because you are destined to meet again, to introduce yourself. You can no longer be what it was before. Before the bulldozer. Do not you excited? You will attract interest slowly. Falling in love again, of themselves, or do it for the first time, it's like a diesel. Party plan, we must insist. But when you go, go in the race.
is an adventure, to rebuild themselves. The largest. No matter where you start if from the house, the color of the curtains or the haircut. I have always adored women in rebirth, for this wonderful way of proclaiming to the world "are new" skirt with a flower, or a fresh curl. Why everyone should understand and see, "Beware: the site is open. We are also working for you. But most of all for ourselves. " More
of sunrises, most of the sun, a woman in rebirth is the greatest wonder. To the person who meets and for herself. It's spring in November. When you least expect it. (Jack Crowd)

In these days of the end of January is very cold, the sky is often cloudy, but for women in the rebirth of the sun reappears and is already spring.

Sunday, January 8, 2006

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Snowing

Snow in Florence and has been missing for twenty years as a spell that has transformed the face of the city. He had begun to sleet in the afternoon of Wednesday last week, but only during the night the snow fell in flakes greater. I was enchanted by the window to see the show ... The sky was dark, the white snow and the glare of city lights, and made him pink in the middle of the night seemed to be to get the sunrise. The day after the city appeared to have changed the white carpet, streets, squares, monuments, everything takes a different image, it was great to get out early, at seven, to see the show before the streets fill with cars and people, the atmosphere was hushed as
... I needed to immerse myself in the silence with the snow and I went to Settignano on the hill, to seek peace.
The dirt path that leads from the village to Vincigliata was completely covered with snow, I ventured alone in the woods, the road is steep at the beginning with ancient cypress trees, some gnarled and wrinkled. After the snowfall transformed the landscape appeared, his feet sank into the white veil, the silence, only the birds and the trees that we talked each with its own language.
the common nature, just to listen, turn the ear of the heart ..... Elf
I felt really free to wander in solitary in that snowy forest, enjoying the beauty. Every breath was coming in peace in me. At times the path was icy, proceeded slowly to avoid slipping in the solitude I did not feel any fear.
If you are not afraid with God, nature is God who speaks, it is difficult to completely surrender, but if you do wrap is an extraordinary experience.
I was long on the steps of an abandoned church in Florence to watch the show at my feet. Alter cypresses guard the entrance, I called them affectionately as "guardians cypress" I love the plants, every time I stop in this place I contemplate their branches to the sky and the hedge of rosemary around the staircase, when flowering the smell is very intense.
can not describe the beauty that gets inside you when you're up and leave. Next to their church silhouetted against the silvery green olive trees on the white snow, a fairytale landscape quieter than usual, I was happy in the solitude, the only human being to enjoy such beauty.