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  Immagine di Felicity Zucchi – Sant’Ilario Baganza, PR “Una vita è un’opera d’arte. Non c’è poesia più bella che vivere pienamente” George Clemenceau Una domenica pomeriggio, mentre sto camminando su una strada in campagna vicino casa nostra nel Nord d’Italia, sono colpita dalla pace che mi circonda mentre lascio il trambusto della città e le colline si estendono davanti a me. Una sensazione di libertà e unione con la natura mette un sorriso sul mio volto. È stata la scelta giusta  uscire in mezzo alla natura e lasciar alle spalle tutte le cose urgenti, almeno per qualche ora. All’improvviso, mi chiedo: perché ho dei sensi di colpa per aver preso un po’ di tempo libero? Chi crediamo ci stia addosso? Ogni giorno della nostra vita è un dono, una possibilità di fare qualcosa di nuovo, di sviluppare più profondamente le nostre passioni e i nostri talenti e di offrir qualcosa di noi stessi che possediamo unicamente noi. II canto spensierato del proprietario della caffetteria mentr...

  With faith, I know that everything will be taken care of. Even the difficult times become learning experiences to help make my faith stronger. Torrii Hunter (Baseball Player) A narrowly avoided front-on collision in the car at high speed; a van that refuses to move out of the way whilst I am running towards them on a country lane; or suddenly feeling like an Olympic swimmer in a race, when my husband and I are caught out by the speed of the tide coming in on one of the Greek Islands. How do we really cope when it is not a practice or a drill and the pressure is suddenly on, in an unexpected moment? We have all had those hair-raising moments that we would prefer to wipe from our minds but, as a friend wisely suggested, it is good to have got through them and hopefully we can still find something to learn from even the most horrific situation. The heat can test all of us. It is great to enjoy the rays of sun on your face at the beach or during a walk in the summer, but when it is c...

  "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present." Roy T. Bennett When caught up in a web of tangled situations that seem to spread into all aspects of your everyday life, you might wonder whether it was an appropriate time to try to write an article on happiness. However, this is precisely the moment when it is needed. Until we realise that happiness is a way of life, and largely controlled by our reaction to events and not the actual physical circumstances themselves, we will never be satisfied or content. We need to be willing to fight for our happiness, to enjoy the steps we take to go forward. These include savouring every triumph no matter how small, and having the courage to set boundaries and creating a balance that satisfies our own desires and needs alongside those of the people who are important to us. Hitting 40, the pursuit of developing the way I live was somewhat magnified and the signific...

  "We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are." ​ Ana ï s Nin How many times have you taken a photograph in one way, only to realise that the angle taken by the person next to you seems to more effectively capture the essence of the panorama unfolding before you? Time and time again, you return and take the same photograph from your comfortable viewpoint and end up getting more or less the same result. When you eventually look back over all the collection of photographs you suddenly realise that they are practically all the same. None of them have actually achieved the atmosphere and angle you were hoping to obtain. So often, we go guns blazing with our black and white thinking. Could there not potentially be a splash of grey in our decidedly channelled vision of events? When faced with a situation or reaction from others that typically generates complacency, what would happen if we were to choose contemplation and a delay in our response rather than resorti...

“The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!” - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah The trumpet blowing tide has quickly been invading our shores, filling every nook and cranny with its brazen and unceremoniously impatient and peremptory assault. There is so much hype nowadays. Things have to be louder, more blasé and fast paced to coax us into seeing the situation or unfolding series of events in a set way and feeling specific emotions. Outspoken behaviour incites more curiosity and the display of wealth and throwing money at things so often gains respect. We are taught by society that loud, brashly confident and forceful behaviour works better, a winning combination. Anything that does not stay within the carefully designated confines of the social box is harshly discarded. Clearly by the number of people seeing psychologists, gaining their hits through drink, excessive gym sessions, extended credit cards and the increase in broken relationsh...

  John 3:16 You gave your life to give me mine. I am free, how can it be? Why do we often have to wait until the last hour to get our breakthrough? We go round and round seeking a solution and the horizon seems flat, stripped bare. We try to write about the issues, solutions and possibilities and the page is still blank, the places we normally go for inspiration are empty. So, what is going on? Look at the situation in the Ukraine, Russia and in so many places around the world. Everyone is waiting with baited breath for the next move, holding on, hoping and praying for something good to happen. Maybe we cannot change the events that are happening to us at the moment or are not even responsible for them, but we can alter our response to how we wait during the process. Our attitude towards those around us, ourselves, our choices, values and faith regarding the things that we can do are all fundamental points of leverage in starting our break through. In Auschwitz, the prisoners could...

  I need more time...to make another impossible choice, another decision, to pack another suitcase, to catch another plane, to find yet another way...As I hunt around in the dark, early hours of the morning for the light above the capper in the kitchen, I am drawn to write another article. What is the topic of this next entry? Time. It came to me as I woke up determinedly and lay wide awake reflecting on the word...TIME...It has a fairly poignant ring about it...and unfortunately on the lips of many in the current situation with the war, Covid and some pretty cruel realities of life thrust at our door. The whistling kettle is a harsh reminder that time waits for no one. You can be the richest person, the most intelligent individual, an incredible musician or athlete, wonderfully generous, living a happy, normal life, but time will eventually come calling. The thing is, we can waste it erring on the side of caution or we can face it straight on, head held high. What do you have to l...