I have known Tito for 44 years, ever since I worked in the same bank where he was a valued client. Fate then brought us together a few years later in the Dominican Republic, where I had lived for a year and where Tito had business relations. A missed meeting during my trip to Mexico …
Up to the North
For a few years I had a "plan" to visit Scandinavia with a dear friend and his oldtimer car. For various reasons, however, we did not succeed... the fate. Then suddenly the cards turned on the table and the possibility of doing this even more adventurous adventure came up again... but with both my children! …
Holodomor: the genocide of the Ukrainians
(Italian translation see below) Although as a young girl I attended history lessons with marked interest, I had never heard of it. I discovered it with horror and sadness only in 2017, during a visit to Kiev. For me, the holocaust was that of the Jews... My parents had told me about their experience during …
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War in Ukraina: the horror against civilian
After two years of a global pandemic, which left a trail of deaths and disastrous consequences across the planet, "mankind" was thought to have learned something of a lesson... Unfortunately we have not dealt with the power-hungry madness, whose folishness has darkened our future by bringing to the memory of all of us other useless …
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Multilingual Poetry * Poesie multilingue
In the specific Poesie * Multilingual Poetry section, there are the direct links to Swans.com where you will find the multilingual poems written with Guido Monte and commented by Francesca Saieva, two dear friends from whom I learned to give a new guise to poetic emotions. Sadly, Guido Monte died on December 5, 2017, he leaves …
Strands of Crystal in Paris * Fili di Cristallo
A blanket of dark clouds covers the sky of that gloomy afternoon, yet an indefinable joy drags my thoughts, through those same alleys where, a few weeks before, an autumn sun had radiated over our steps.The smell of wet leaves and grass, tickles the desire for a moment of intimacy in some bistro; the man …
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Memories * Memorie
(excerpt from my novel Mists on the Moor - Nebbie nella Brughiera) The water flows. With it time, which only leaves traces on my body, in my spirit. While indelible memories re-emerge in the dreams of the night that is always too long. The long walks along the sea where the waves carry to the …
Isn’t over… biodiversity is still in danger
It was a decisive weekend for biodiversity in our little Switzerland. This doesn't mean that the problems for some species of animals are over. There will always be hunters aware that in order to practice their bloodthirsty "sport", they will kill pregnant ungulates or undersized one’s mistaking them for some other species... they will kill …
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La vergognosa politica * The shameful politics
In queste settimane, gli animi si sono accesi parecchio, e a far discutere è la modifica della Legge sulla Caccia! Quale ecologista amante degli animali, non sono l'unica ad essere stata più volte attaccata verbalmente come pure su scritti apparsi sulla stampa del cantone Ticino. Sono piovute parole spregevoli e ai limiti della denuncia... Ma …
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NO to the killing of guiltless animals * NO all’uccisione di animali protetti
http://www.legge-caccia-no.ch Il 27 settembre è una data importantissima per il futuro della biodiversità svizzera. Abbiamo bisogno del voto di tutti voi, di tutti quelli che hanno a cuore la natura e gli animali dei nostri boschi! NO a una legge confusa e inaccettabile che mette a rischio di abbattimento preventivo molte specie ora protette tra …
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Fighting for them: the creatures without voice
26.8.2020 Corriere del Ticino The global extinction of many species of flora and fauna, or a reduction / loss of the same in a specific natural environment, can be a temporary or permanent phenomenon depending on the situation. In the case of deforestation, the disappearance of the habitat of many species, without the possibility of …
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The Clock [thoughts from: The game of glass beads – Hermann Hesse]
The Casa Camuzzi in Montagnola - Collina d'Oro - Ticino, was built in the middle of the 19th century by the Ticino architect Agostino Camuzzi and was completed in 1853. The Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse from 1919 to 1931, as well lived there. The Glass Beads Game is one of Hesse's notable works. I …
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Let’s mobilize to prevent the slaughter of animals * mobilitiamoci per impedire stragi di animali
See the post in the blog "amici del lupo svizzera italiana" This is the translation of a derogatory article against the “protectors of Nature”. It is really true that apples never fall far from the tree: if I remember correctly, Mr. Berta, who wrote the article of 5.8.2020 “Wolf, predations and true solutions”, or “I …
FINDERORIÉN
In a place difficult to reach by land, an ascetic lived and probably still lives. He was no longer young, but the years had not yet marked his flesh with aches and pains that are typical of aging. Time seemed to stand still for him! Many came from afar to ask for his advice or …
Power of human brain? * Usiamo il cervello?
In recent months I have repeatedly asked myself whether there is a relationship, albeit indirect, between the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and global warming.On the one hand, it is stated that there is still no scientific evidence, but many times reference is made to other viruses of the same Orthocoronavirinae family, for example SARS, for which a …
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Claudine Giovannoni 