Leaving without making a noise For a land away from here For a place to sooth your heart When the sun rises on you, it sets on me Leaving without making a noise I have searched in vain for your footprints next to mine I turn my back to your shade When the sun sets…
God created the universe in one week. It took her 2.200 days to destroy her world. She burnt it down slowly, meticulously: houses and homes, trees and written words, shops and expectations, skyscrapers and dreams, prisons and nightmares, until even the last stray dogs fled with the tail between their legs. The feeble flames were…
I was born on a day of the year that I would learn to forget as nobody cared to remember it. I was unwillingly pushed out of warm womb to meet the coldness of the world to which I belonged. Strong hands pulled me up and deposited me on a soft chest. I looked around…
A pirate’s vessel sailed steadily towards the unknown coast. The pirate was not looking for treasure as the gold and diamonds were already onboard. She had sailed for many days through stormy waters and thundering skies and at some point she was sure that the treasure must have gone lost to the bottom of the ocean. It…
What does civic responsibility and voting mean to you? What does it entail? It is given for granted that citizens have the right to vote and being informed, though I prefer looking at the matter from another perspective, in other words as a duty of citizens who are part of a society which they help…
I wrote a comment on my blog in Italian on the debate that took place at the Bozar in Brussels on January 30 and which saw Mario Monti and Sylvie Goulard presenting the main ideas written in their book „De la Démocratie en Europe“. Following the suggestions of some non-Italian speaking friends I have here…
