Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
I spent hours last night looking for old Italian songs on iTunes. I was stunned to discover lots of albums from the 70’s and 80’s that I used to listen to and love when I was in high-school and college. And I am not talking about the main stream italian pop (although I Pooh...
An Associated Press article on Yahoo news: On their first day out, they found someone alive — 20 days after Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans’ protective levees and flooded this fish bowl of a city. (…) By the time the Florida team arrived on Saturday, most of New Orleans had been searched by...
A few weeks ago I felt quite sorry for myself (long before Katrina, when I didn’t yet feel ashamed to feel sorry for myself). It was Friday evening and I was still at work finishing a report. Usually I leave work earlier on Fridays and I enjoy some Anto quality time by myself. I...
I was on vacation last week, for a family trip to the Bay Area. I thought I would blog like crazy, but I didn’t. Partly it was because of Katrina. As my sister Paola wrote, the storm drowned my thoughts. The sadness, the anger, and the helplessness merged in a total paralysis. I enjoyed...
The management of CBC, the Canadian Public Broadcasting radio, broke the labor negotiations that had been going on for 15 months and locked out 5,500 CBC workers on August 15. The dispute is around the hiring of contractors and part-time workers. CBC, which has received no funding increase in five years, decided to solve...
Everybody is blogging on their mothers lately. Jory started with a post on her mom, Joy, that made me sob. people have somehow caught on to this woman’s ability to not judge– even in matters concerning me–to listen, and, if you’re meeting her in-person, to feed you. [After that post, Joy decided to start...