the Copernican revolution
milanesizzarti tends to Milan.
you analyze, judge you, complain, you discard, you smile.
It 's a city that, To survive, they must be continually justified.
And as a long disease incubation, one day you wake up do not even notice the first symptoms of your milanesizzazione. Small, almost imperceptible signals suggest you that change is underway, any vaccine that ultimately proved useless: in close contact with certain aspects of the city will enter the blood.
begin to speak more often about money, you have solutions for any malfunction, no greetings so often when you go into a bar and never more awkward gestures of kindness that will remain without even a thank you in return. Bile salt you more often and start Malfidano you, you're afraid to make mistakes and export and begin to give weight to the opinions of others even if they are unknown. Choose the first local friends, I get nervous if people underground does not move to the right on escalators, you will not enjoy more moments of rest taken by the frenzy of do, do, do.
But there is a silver lining in all this: the disease has a cure.
and to try until I was in Poland, the southern wastelands of the country, where five hundred to half a scientist and mathematician, had an intuition proved useful to me at this time.
basis of the work of Copernicus is known as the heliocentric theory or the theory that argued rightly that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not vice versa.
In a period of Inquisition and barbarism in fact, while most of the continent regressed to a state of violence and widespread loss of confidence, the Polish scientist revealed that the planet as we knew it was not the center of the universe, but only a part .
But, philosophically, the more remarkable, Miklaja Kopernik thanks to his studies to reveal how the Sun to determine the motion of the Earth, and not the other way.
Or how it is possible that what - found common ground-it makes us passive objects could instead be put into question totally transforming us into protagonists of our present.
Since it had a lot of confidence in Copernicus, I followed his advice and to combat milanesizzazione I flew to Krakow, a city that I had met but said goodbye to fourteen years with the promise to return.
Promise kept in the company of a new traveling companion, Mario, who in addition to those of a friend, roommate and fellow student also acquires the status of the new customer Cassiani Junior Travel.
Ed Krakow was the product I was looking for a city exciting, more beautiful than I remembered, in perpetual motion and a treasure trove of little secrets.
as the district of Kazimierz, Krakow studded with a local Kreuzberg Parisian flavor, the main square (the largest medieval square in Europe) that leaves a feeling of airiness in Milan forgotten the Castle overlooking the Vistula, the paths taken care of the historic center of the explosion of colors' Inside the church of St. Mary, and lively nightlife.
Guests couchsurfers of crazy we could enjoy everything, leaving a 'space also examine the Wieliczka salt mine (who surprised us with a cathedral built entirely of salt to 135 meters below ground level) and to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Although they had already visited them eleven years ago, leaving the anxiety has not diminished but perhaps it is increased, evidence of the danger of applied science hatred, are a piece of European history from the incredible emotional power. Now that we are gradually losing all direct witnesses of that war, I wonder if future generations will retain vivid memories this drawing it from the books as we do this by associating us with stories of their grandparents.
We go back to Milan full of life, and determined not to leave again in the smog and the complaints of this city sad and distressed.
Spring, stage the definition of which is imminent (I did request for the EU Delegation in Lebanon, to Washington for the IOM and the UNHCR in Geneva, crossed fingers), and the Copernican revitalize the energy lost in March: once again, the heliocentric revolution has wrought in the Middle Ages ease looming.
Big hugs anointed pierogi and wet Zubrowka
Tommy
PS: And finally make public some of the photos of recent trips: after a long wait, here
week in Bohemia Negin, May 2009: # http://picasaweb.google.com/Tommyjay13/PrimaveraBoema
twelve days in Corsica with Negin, Lollo and other friends: http://picasaweb.google.com/Tommyjay13/UnPetitSoujourCorse #
and the famous photo of the summer and expectations with Ethiopian Jaka to the African continent: # http://picasaweb.google.com/Tommyjay13/IlFangoELaCroce
Let me know how you seem to ... hug!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
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ALLEGRO A SMOOTH SEA
must be said: I Milano is reaping.
I can force myself to deny it, hope to discuss, play hide and seek, but it would be a wasted effort.
the mere fact that the first post in March of 2010 to write it says a lot about my current situation.
Like a rhythmic symphony andante, allegretto and tips with flashes of pure happy, November I started my life in Milan and simply has not stopped since.
This does not mean that Milan has trapped me in its rhythms, indeed.
Rather, I did not escape the fact only one of the stimuli that this place could offer me, filling my days of ever-changing events that I planned to address at this year's exile in Lombardy. But first things first ...
FIRST MOVEMENT: LONDON - The most European city in Italy find it hard to love. You try to do anything to escape the stereotypes, but I will not even pretend with you: it is a metropolis cold, inhospitable and where the god of money becomes the first order the means. And the fog is: then that in Brescia or Brianza is much more dense (typical justification Milan on) does not mean that one of the capital, in short, it is still too much. The other side of the coin is the cultural and night life, the second enviable and unmatched (in Italy) first. Unfortunately, both very elitist, because Milan is an expensive city.
SECOND MOVEMENT: THE MASTER - The best reason to have come this far, and stay within these clouds. Extremely challenging, definitely pragmatic, and designed to make me really out of this year ready to challenge any emergency. Well, so far a 9 out of 10, tending to half past nine. And then after all live with different cultures around the world, mediation between the various ethnic groups who attend Italic is stimulating and attractive, for a minstrel with the hobby of ethnography.
THIRD MOVEMENT: PROJECTS - And they could not miss the side projects. Primarily related to the master himself, as the study tour on which we prepare our arguments, and to be held in May in Palestine. Know, listen, get an idea and contact the protagonists of the scene of the tragedy of the twentieth century longer, then suddenly a short short film that looks and analyze its possible resolution. Following This internship, which is still too early to predict where I will, but to serve as a springboard to the world of work that I have gained so much experience in various corners of the world. In the middle, sometimes they come back: and the premise that mon amie chere Giulia (better known in the world of mediation as Molinenkoff) had never gone, you owe it to the me involved in a project supported by the EU to the discovery of the Open Space Methodology .
Five appointments in four different cities (Berlin, Frankfurt - from which I have just returned - Turin, Lille), three working groups and sixteen young Europeans to deal with a participatory methodology (based on maieutics) management public spaces: everything will be realized in the proposed mediation of the contrasts of a multi-ethnic district of the city of Lille in northern France.
Except that would take me seriously, I'd say there should be made a reality.
FOURTH MOVEMENT: LES VOYAGES - In Milan, master, and the tremendous number of projects and possible (no one has ever understood what NOT contain) rosicchino eagerly my days, there is nothing that can distract him from the curiosity atavistic of the corner. Whether Pisa for a Chagall exhibition, a quiet afternoon by the diffused light in Cremona, and the beautiful setting of Lake Como to explore the narrow streets and soft colors of pearl Bellagio, to cancel the trip does not go anywhere near the options of my display. There are those who take the journey of the disease, and who was born there: I do not think I have my doubts about the second group. Especially if Codest travel more often include the company of a beautiful blind girl to make small impressionist paintings.
And the sunny season is approaching appropinquano spectra of future trips, rather than tempting avengers: the summer seems to be the Middle East, or perhaps back to the Cyclades. Without anticipating too much, because even in the midst of other surprises are already in preparation ...
not essendo io Beethoven o Schubert, mi accontenterò del canone dei quattro movimenti, per evitare il tedio delle sinfonie troppo lunghe. Vi basti sapere che questo 2010 allegro un poco mosso ha parlato molto di voi, e molto ancora ne parlerà: il mio primo obiettivo, quel tornare in contatto che auspicavo in settembre al mio rientro nel Belpaese, sembra germogliare bene.
E non è ancora primavera.
Un abbraccione lumbard (ma neanche..)
Tommy
must be said: I Milano is reaping.
I can force myself to deny it, hope to discuss, play hide and seek, but it would be a wasted effort.
the mere fact that the first post in March of 2010 to write it says a lot about my current situation.
Like a rhythmic symphony andante, allegretto and tips with flashes of pure happy, November I started my life in Milan and simply has not stopped since.
This does not mean that Milan has trapped me in its rhythms, indeed.
Rather, I did not escape the fact only one of the stimuli that this place could offer me, filling my days of ever-changing events that I planned to address at this year's exile in Lombardy. But first things first ...
FIRST MOVEMENT: LONDON - The most European city in Italy find it hard to love. You try to do anything to escape the stereotypes, but I will not even pretend with you: it is a metropolis cold, inhospitable and where the god of money becomes the first order the means. And the fog is: then that in Brescia or Brianza is much more dense (typical justification Milan on) does not mean that one of the capital, in short, it is still too much. The other side of the coin is the cultural and night life, the second enviable and unmatched (in Italy) first. Unfortunately, both very elitist, because Milan is an expensive city.
SECOND MOVEMENT: THE MASTER - The best reason to have come this far, and stay within these clouds. Extremely challenging, definitely pragmatic, and designed to make me really out of this year ready to challenge any emergency. Well, so far a 9 out of 10, tending to half past nine. And then after all live with different cultures around the world, mediation between the various ethnic groups who attend Italic is stimulating and attractive, for a minstrel with the hobby of ethnography.
THIRD MOVEMENT: PROJECTS - And they could not miss the side projects. Primarily related to the master himself, as the study tour on which we prepare our arguments, and to be held in May in Palestine. Know, listen, get an idea and contact the protagonists of the scene of the tragedy of the twentieth century longer, then suddenly a short short film that looks and analyze its possible resolution. Following This internship, which is still too early to predict where I will, but to serve as a springboard to the world of work that I have gained so much experience in various corners of the world. In the middle, sometimes they come back: and the premise that mon amie chere Giulia (better known in the world of mediation as Molinenkoff) had never gone, you owe it to the me involved in a project supported by the EU to the discovery of the Open Space Methodology .
Five appointments in four different cities (Berlin, Frankfurt - from which I have just returned - Turin, Lille), three working groups and sixteen young Europeans to deal with a participatory methodology (based on maieutics) management public spaces: everything will be realized in the proposed mediation of the contrasts of a multi-ethnic district of the city of Lille in northern France.
Except that would take me seriously, I'd say there should be made a reality.
FOURTH MOVEMENT: LES VOYAGES - In Milan, master, and the tremendous number of projects and possible (no one has ever understood what NOT contain) rosicchino eagerly my days, there is nothing that can distract him from the curiosity atavistic of the corner. Whether Pisa for a Chagall exhibition, a quiet afternoon by the diffused light in Cremona, and the beautiful setting of Lake Como to explore the narrow streets and soft colors of pearl Bellagio, to cancel the trip does not go anywhere near the options of my display. There are those who take the journey of the disease, and who was born there: I do not think I have my doubts about the second group. Especially if Codest travel more often include the company of a beautiful blind girl to make small impressionist paintings.
And the sunny season is approaching appropinquano spectra of future trips, rather than tempting avengers: the summer seems to be the Middle East, or perhaps back to the Cyclades. Without anticipating too much, because even in the midst of other surprises are already in preparation ...
not essendo io Beethoven o Schubert, mi accontenterò del canone dei quattro movimenti, per evitare il tedio delle sinfonie troppo lunghe. Vi basti sapere che questo 2010 allegro un poco mosso ha parlato molto di voi, e molto ancora ne parlerà: il mio primo obiettivo, quel tornare in contatto che auspicavo in settembre al mio rientro nel Belpaese, sembra germogliare bene.
E non è ancora primavera.
Un abbraccione lumbard (ma neanche..)
Tommy
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