There are special places, yes, indeed... that stand out from the rest for just as many different reasons. I’d heard about Cornwall years ago, yet I’d never thought of visiting it, preferring places thousands of miles away.A couple of months ago, I started watching the TV series Poldark on Netflix purely by chance. I was …
Novel about music, magic and inner Journeys
At dawn, the snow seemed to play its own music against the windows. Fiona remained motionless, enveloped in the scent of old paper and rosin, as the milky light flooded the studio. On the music stand, the open score breathed like a wounded animal. It was still Rachmaninoff’s Prelude, and yet it was no longer …
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Walking around my canton of Ticino
We usually plan trips far from home, to places we haven't traveled to yet or even to places we loved so much that remained close to our hearts.I realize that even the place where I live hides beauties that we sometimes don't even dream of rediscovering.A young woman with whom I shared the Atlantic crossing …
Thanatos
The water flows. With it, time flows, leaving traces only on my body, in my spirit. While indelible memories resurface in the dreams of nights that are always too long. Do you remember? The long walks along the sea where the waves bring tiny shells with such strange shapes to the beach…We would spend hours …
Forgotten Bretagne
The air is fresh and the salty aroma betrays the presence of the sea, beyond the towering cliffs eroded by wind and waves.A gust struck me forcefully in the face, as if to lash its hard punishment and inflicting a sting into the flesh.I wrap myself into the long black worn cloak with dusty edges. I …
Brasile e Argentina: tre folli città ed una cascata divina
Da un anno era programmato questo viaggio, o forse anche ben oltre i 12 mesi, non ricordo in quale occasione me ne aveva parlato per la prima volta l’amico Danilo. Volevo in qualche modo festeggiare la conclusione della mia attività lavorativa… col desiderio di rivedere quei posti che avevo più volte visitato quando ancora lavoravo …
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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! …
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 …
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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You still have time… * Hai ancora tempo…
. Per chi non avesse ancora conosciuto Chrysalis e Joshua... per fr./euro 28.- vi spedisco a casa vostra il romanzo, impachettato con carta-regalo! Inserite i vostri dati personali al link soprastante e un'eventuale richiesta di dedica, il romanzo vi sarà inviato entro le 24 ore. . And for those who had not yet met Chrysalis …
Books are pieces of dreams… I libri sono frammenti di sogni
Inside my novels, there is a common dream aiming to change the world for a better place for humankind... You will find appealing descriptions of places far away, you may travel with the characters on airplanes and sailboats, you will plunge into unrevealed mysteries and you will feel the shiver realizing that most of it …
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Do you want to meet her?
Chrysalis will tell you her story... after the success of the original version in Italian, the novel "The Annwyn's Secret" is purchasable on Amazon.com in English. Don't miss the chance for the special discounted price for £ 7.99! Get your copy now... Get your copy here on Amazon.co.uk By the way... if you need the …
A new family member… Tommy
My husband and I we are "animal rights activists" ... and with our example, we hope to raise awareness and bring many others to behave compassionately towards these creatures that have exactly our same rights! This eight years old gorgeous boy is Tommy. He just arrived yesterday and still he is scared because of the …
The strength of Nature * la forza della Natura
Actually this is only a cartoon... I have seen few dystopian movies, I'm Legend just to name one, where nature take back its place . Others, like Divergent, Shaman, Hunger Games or Cloud Atlas, bring us into some mistic territory where you really have to open up your mind and accept the real possibility that …
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Claudine Giovannoni 