UP TO A POINT
Shame is one of the most painful emotions humans can feel, and the distinctive facial flushing that typically accompanies it certainly doesn’t help.
To blush when one is ashamed communicates to others precisely what we would like to hide at that moment, somehow betraying ourselves, since the only…
THE AMOEBA CAN’T LEARN KOREAN
Where does the lost weight go?
My breath catches at this question: I’ve never asked myself that, never thought about it. I’ve always been in such a hurry to shake it off, to get rid of it without looking back, because it was too heavy, too fat. I never stopped to wonder: where does it go, in the e…
YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DIE
September is always a complicated month…you have to let go of summer, the colors, the sounds, the promises of summer. The days are gradually getting shorter, the air is cooler, the body is returning to the rhythms of daily commitments…the school year begins again.
Every time is different, ever…
LET’S STOP EVERYTHING!
The whole of Italy will come to a standstill on September 22, 2025.
I was reading several articles about the general strike for Gaza announced for September 22, 2025. I thought…
Will I have to stop too? Okay, but if I stop, what will I do? What will I say? Where will I go?…
Silence.
Septe…
THE AUTISTIC MONKEY
In order to appear scientific, psychiatry is increasingly focusing on genetics, the study of the brain, and overt behavior, thus losing sight of the human being and their mind, which is not the brain. All this is also leading to an increasing number of children being labeled with neurodevelopmental d…
TUG OF WAR
We have read everything in this period, absurd things, horrible things, things that don’t make us feel good. It seems really difficult to have fun like before, to feel light. All that news makes me think that the world is like a sick patient. And I wondered what the cure might be. I tried to listen…
WHEN THE WORLD IS ASLEEP
In recent days, around fifty boats from more than 40 countries around the world have set sail or are about to set sail for Gaza, carrying food and medicine. The Global Sumud Flotilla, as stated on its official website, “is a coordinated, non-violent fleet, composed mainly of small boats sailing from…
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
That of the impostor is the so-called syndrome from which those who think they do not deserve what they have, the goals and successes achieved, the job gratification or even just the compliments of others suffer.
Convinced that they will always be able to ‘deceive’ everyone, however, unlike psycho…
A COUNTRY MEANS NOT BEING ALONE
“You need a town, if only for the pleasure of leaving. A town means not being alone, knowing that in the people, in the plants, in the land there is something of yours, that even when you are not there, it remains waiting for you.” (S. Accorsi, final monologue of the film)Radio Arrow).
Warm, movin…