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I'm passionate about

The human mind, death, creativity, the sea, the moon, stories (read & told), the heart ,running, clouds, trees, words,starlings, silence and the art of creating non-existing soothing memories.

An idea worth spreading

I have a black cat and a white rat: they coexist peacefully.
Why are we, the top race, unable to do so?

Talk to me about

Anything at all...just talk to me.

People don't know that I'm good at

...being bad.

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• A comment on Conversation: What is really behind the Pope's resignations?

  Feb 13 2013: Well....it wouldn't surprise me if Mr Berlusconi proposed himself for the job :-D

• A reply on Conversation: Today a 12 years old has asked me: "A lot of people seem to be very angry. Is anger useful?" This made me think: can anger be positive?

  Feb 5 2013: Well. it really troubles me to feel 'black emotions' so with time I have learned to bring back everything to love which I believe is the most powerful weapon ever.
  AMOR OMNIA VINCIT....

• A reply on Conversation: Today a 12 years old has asked me: "A lot of people seem to be very angry. Is anger useful?" This made me think: can anger be positive?

  Feb 4 2013: No, all my protests (if any) come from love: I love something therefore I protest against it's opposite. Anger, like fear, makes me feel alive and that yes, is a positive feeling.

• A comment on Conversation: Do you believe that social media has influenced the credibility of our words?

  Feb 2 2013: Beckett said: "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." But he also said: "Words are all we have."
  I do not like any shade of gray but maybe in this case truth is in the middle. Words are a bridge and a bridge can be solid or crumbling... It's not what we write that matters but what makes us writing: a kind of hunger. With technology we are living a second 'industrial revolution' and this new way of communication is at the same time scaring and fascinating.
  Yes, it's also a monument to global loneliness and the death of those small, dirty, smokey coffee shop where you would sit and chat to anyone.
  This said: we can choose, we can still choose between words and silence, FaceBook and TED, clicking on the thumb up or ignore it.
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  A comment on Conversation: What if nothing comes from our devotion, effort, faith and work?

  Feb 2 2013: Well....after the brain-storm created by your comments I can finally say that the secret is all in a simple action: TO OPEN.
  
  
  The Door
  
  Go and open the door.
  Perhaps outside
  there's a tree, or a wood,
  or a garden,
  or a magic town.
  
  Go and open the door.
  Perhaps outside
  there's a dog scratching.
  Perhaps there's a face outside,
  or an eye
  or the picture
  of a picture.
  
  Go and open the door.
  If there's fog outside
  it will go.
  
  Go and open the door.
  There could be outside only
  singing darkness,
  and there could be outside only
  wind's hollow breath
  and there could be
  absolutely nothing
  outside,
  go and open the door.
  
  At least
  there would be
  a draught.
  
  
  Miroslav Holub

• A reply on Conversation: What if nothing comes from our devotion, effort, faith and work?

  Feb 2 2013: Dear Sam(uel) was a very wise guy and maybe it's not by chance that I'm called Gogo. I wish he could take part to our TED conversation...I'm sure he would smile and post:
  "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
  Samuel Beckett
  
  Thank you Theodore....

• A reply on Conversation: What if nothing comes from our devotion, effort, faith and work?

  Feb 2 2013: Yes, I agree. And maybe following the road to the new shore we arrive where we intended to arrive.... Life moves in circles ;-)

• A comment on Conversation: What if nothing comes from our devotion, effort, faith and work?

  Jan 31 2013: Of course I write also for myself because it gives me infinite pleasure (even though it's very hard) but -believe me- the 'BUT' are not something you might build on. I give you one :'Your book is too good for an Italian audience'. Yhis of course, pens a can of worms regarding the social-political issues we have here.
  
  But I'll go on...
  Thank you, Colleen!
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  A comment on Conversation: What if nothing comes from our devotion, effort, faith and work?

  Jan 31 2013: Thank you to you all.Your comments make sense and I actually thought the same things myself but....we seem to be all dreamers. Unfortunately the real life always asks for a bill to be paid and that's when the big question mark arises, when we can not afford to do what we believe in. And it's awful to face the dilemma between keep going and stop. In the specific, I'm a writer in a country where corruption has spread also to literature. I do not write for myself but for you all 'out there'. I keep receiving letters from publisher and they are all full of praises but....they always end with a 'BUT' that doesn't make any sense.
  Writing is perhaps the most difficult, solitary and generous form of art; I love it for these reasons but what to do if my only dream (being read) doesn't come true?
  
  Thank you again,
  Gogo
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  A comment on Conversation: How would you advise a person who would like to explore the world, yet has no money at all?

  Jan 27 2013: READ! READ! READ! Reading is the most wonderful, cheapest and effective way of traveling...