Thursday 31 December 2009

Happy 2010!


I wish to all of you happiness, health and freedom!
May we see for 2010
a free Iran,
a free Palestine
and a Silvio-less Italia
in a better world.

2010 starting with a full moon,
a symbol of beauty in Persian culture,
I wish you a lot of beauty
in your lives
and in your hearts.


ΠΑΛΙΝ ΑΚΟΥΣΑΤΕ ΑΡΧΟΝΤΕΣ (ΚΥΠΡΟΥ)

Tuesday 29 December 2009

Garden physic

What kind of gravitation theory would Newton have discovered if he had received one of those leaves (and not an apple) upon his head during the most legendary nap in the History of physic?

Sunday 27 December 2009

Worshippers

God does not like to be worshipped by an ignorant man who imitates someone else.

Gibran Khalil Gibran,
Khalil the heretic

Friday 25 December 2009

Dry Christmas in Venezia

This picture was taken some years ago, in Venezia, in piazza San Marco:

It would have been quite harder to take such a picture nowadays as piazza San Marco is a lake now: "acqua alta" as they call it there…
Another consequence of the global warming?
Another global warning?

Thursday 24 December 2009

New traditions

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΓΕΝΝΑΤΑΙ ΔΟΞΑΣΑΤΕ
A Christmas lemon tree: we do what we can with what we have…
But a real lemon tree with real lemons!



BON NADAL A TOTHOM!!!

Wednesday 23 December 2009

Els Reis de l'Orient i l'estrella

A simple star as Christmas decoration in our street…
Not much but it is more than enough for our small village in this (end of) crisis: no need to spend millions for that.
Moreover a single star was enough to guide the Kings from the East to Bethlehem.

ΑΝΑΡΧΟΣ ΘΕΟΣ ΚΑΤΑΒΗΒΗΚΕΝ


Sunday 20 December 2009

Fractals

Fractals? Chaos? Which theory should we use as a model for the growing of branches of trees?
Something definitively non-linear.

Saturday 19 December 2009

Snow Leopard

And it is not an add for the new OS of my computer: winter is definitively here and cats in the gardens have to adapt to this new playground.

Thursday 17 December 2009

Zoom or not zoom?

By zooming in we have a beautiful view of this fountain…

but we simply miss these trees with their warmest reddish leaves!

We cannot have everything: life is a series of choices!

Tuesday 15 December 2009

Fairy tale swan

What should I have done to transform this swan in the beautiful princess she once was?

Monday 14 December 2009

Italian balls

Il suo alleato, Bossi, ne ha elogiato «le palle», argomento decisivo per tutti e due.
Rossana Rossanda,
Il Manifesto, 12/12/2009

Quando Fabrizio Corona l’altra sera in tivù ha preso a cazzotti un muro (dimostrando scientificamente che palle e cervello non comunicano), la sua fidanzata Belen Rodriguez ha chiamato il programma per dirsi orgogliosa di amare uno «con le palle».
Alessandro Robecchi,
Il Manifesto, 13/12/2009

Autumn sky

Imagine how depressing it can be when such black clouds cover all the sky and we cannot see any blue…

Saturday 12 December 2009

Sleeping garden

Woods waiting for next spring/summer to support some climbing vegetables: beans &c.

Sunday 6 December 2009

Winnie weekend

A baby-sitting night for Saint-Nicolas (patron des écoliers…) with my nephews here, with lots of Winnie’s for them to make their stay nicer:
  • a Winnie light to make their dream sweet
  • a Winnie & co tablecloth for breakfast…
and a good cappuccino.
But this one was for me!


Saturday 5 December 2009

Το αγκάθι

Πρωινά λαχανιασμένα
rendez vous ματαιωμένα
δρόμο παίρνεις δρόμο αφήνω
κόμπο δένεις κόμπο λύνω
στην ηλιοφεγγιά σε φτάνω
στην αστροφεγγιά σε χάνω

Όποιος φοράει τη θλίψη στέμμα
ίσως ποτέ του δεν θα μάθει
τι δρόμο ανοίγει ένα ψέμα
τι μέλι κρύβει το αγκάθι

Στου Απρίλη τις ταράτσες
ονειροπαρμένες φάτσες
σκάβουν στη σιωπή λαγούμι
με τσιγάρο και με ρούμι
σαν φαντάροι απολυμένοι
που κανείς δε περιμένει

Όποιος φοράει τη θλίψη στέμμα
ίσως ποτέ του δεν θα μάθει
τι δρόμο ανοίγει ένα βλέμμα
τι μέλι κρύβει το αγκάθι

Μόρτισσα καραμελάτη
τσακιστή και μυρωδάτη
με κερνάει σαν νυχτώνει
του έρωτά της το αφιόνι
κρύβει η νύχτα το μαχαίρι
και μας παίρνει απ' το χέρι


Thursday 3 December 2009

Humans or passports?

Reflexioné, también, que toda incertidumbre era preferible a la de un diálogo con esos consanguíneos del caos, a quienes la infinita repetición de la interesante fórmula soy argentino* exime del honor y de la piedad.

J. L Borges
ANOTACIÓN AL 23 DE AGOSTO DE 1944,
Otras inquisiciones
* one can of course replace argentino by any other nationality…

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