Year: 2022

For days I am on the phone and emails and a lot of communication with public and private providers of services; a social security department, a human resources department, an administration department, the fiscal authorities, an on line business application sales department, and the list goes on and on. For some inexplicable reason things are stalling or are under a spell of seriously slow progress. Emails needed to be repeated day after day. And then I spend at least an hour on the phone to resolve issues unsolved by emails. Each one of these calls is enough to ruin my day. I persist with patience. I continue untamed by the power of events. None of these things worth my enthusiasm, my health or my good spirit, I consult myself. I…

As a child I was born and raised in a city. Not a big city still a city, far away from nature, in an apartment where the only sign of nature was a giant pine tree in a small piece of land that was not touched by the greediness of urban building. Those days we were fully allowed to hang out with all the kids in the neighborhood and play till it was getting dark. So we would run on the ground and get in dirt as often as we could discover it in another small patch of land that was not covered in concrete. Periodically, at school, they would take us to a bigger patch with some trees, a bad imitation of what should have been a proper park.…