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About Me

An eclectic, slightly inconstant and curious being, Lela looks for inspiration in the printed paper, art and design world, nature and people interactions. She has traveled a few professional paths and lived in many houses in Italy and Canada. She longs to be able one day to visit the outer space, but what she'd really love to do is to travel in time.
She enjoys learning, solving problems, drawing and designing for the human body and its space. She has a radical interest in anything that is cooking and baking and a naive one in neuroscience, psychology and statistics. She has a love/hate relationship with birds and a weird fascination with bones and x-rays slides. Her favourite animals are octopi. She always feels good in and around water.
She lives in Italy with her lovely husband and daughter.

Location:
Italy, Busto Garolfo, Mi
Gender:
Female
Languages:
English, Italian
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    A reply on Talk: Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes

    Jan 12 2013: "What I am describing is noticing to the amount of thoughts in one's mind when we place our attention inward instead of outward."

    That's actually exactly what mindfulness meditation tried to achieve. The idea that the purpose of meditation is to somehow purge the mind of thought is pervasive but quite inaccurate.
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    A comment on Conversation: "What did you want to be when you were little?"

    Apr 10 2011: A painter, with my own studio under a mansard roof in Paris. And an astronaut, but somebody told me that I needed to be perfectly healthy and have perfect eyesight to become one. I had just started wearing glasses so I put that dream on hold until when in grade two I learned about Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in a space project. I wanted then to be a teacher. Somehow I thought they could make an exception about my eyesight if I was a really good teacher. Also a mathematician in the Soviet Union because I was afraid of a nuclear war and was told that Russians were always ready to put their best people in bunkers to keep them safe. And of course a chef.

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