In this New York Times article, Scott Vener, musical director of a famous TV series, laments the fact that playlists have replaced his favourite music blogs and declares that he misses reading passionate music fans talking about each song they used to post. I agree with him. I mean, I truly believe that hearing good […]
Five years ago, while walking around some stores a few weeks before Christmas, I was suddenly petrified by a scream that erupted in my mind, “Jesus Christ (the supposed reason of it all)! There are so many great songs about Christmas. Why do they keep torturing us with these super-boring ones?” That was when, despite
Since an early age, I’ve been daily consumed by this overwhelming urge to write. To me, writing is a natural and strong instinct apparently embedded in my blood, just like breathing. What has been taking my peace away, however, is this counter-intuitive desire (given how private and selective I am) to share what I write,
saudade/saʊˈdɑːdə/ Technically, it’s a complex emotion caused by the absence of something or someone who, unable to be reached, leaves in their place mixed feelings of nostalgia, lack, loss, emptiness, incompleteness, distance, and sorrow – all watered with joy and gratitude for the memories that keep alive both love and a deep desire to once
Death is in the air! Today, in an evil tradition that, given the roads humanity has been taking, is unsurprisingly gaining more and more supporters around the world (I can’t wait for my neighbours to remove from my sight the horror shows they call “decoration”); next Saturday, in ceremonies that followers of some religious beliefs
For months, if not years, I’ve been trying to bring a minimum of order to the utter chaos made out of my, literally, thousands of files stored in clouds, external drives, laptops, tablets, cell phones and, to the surprise of some (or many), in good old notebooks or any piece of paper where I can
Yesterday afternoon I was thinking about what to share here after such a dense short story. At night, the sky surprised me with an unexpected answer. Although the Northern Lights were really subtle in my neighbourhood, for a day that started so grey, ending with a colourful night felt like a light caress to the
Today is her birthday. Seventy-three years of life; two exactly since some behaviours that had been sporadic until then, sometimes almost comical, made it clear that they were signs of something way more serious than I could have imagined. The physical distance didn’t allow me to properly discern it, but it felt like, in the
Without ever having planned it, or even desired it, fate ended up taking me to live, up until now, in six different cities – three in the country where I was born and three abroad. For more exploratory spirits, dwelling in half a dozen points on the world map may sound like a great adventure.
When brainstorming about what the first post on this new platform would be, the title “Hello, World!” was suggested to me as a joke. “No way!” – I answered. A few seconds later, I found myself wondering, “hmm, coming from me, that title is so unpredictable that it could be actually funny” (and I did
