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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

C

Story of - ghosts of christmas past

Been talking with a lot of people about this thing called christmas spirit, and as an adult am finding that there are very little people that have it. 

Most of us is completely drained from a difficult year that has just passed: what with jobs being lost, difficult times at work, not much money to grant our or other's wishes, relationships that ended, people we lost...and this economy that is taking too long to get back on its feet.

Christmas is a difficult time for people who have, for a period of time, lived it as a horrible part of the year. When others near us got everything and we didn't. I myself, always found it a magical time, even if as a child I didn't have much, I've always taken into my inner circle only the important people in my life and made the most of it, and this is still today...I try, as hard as I can to give a smile to people around me. I seldom give or expect gifts, but when I do, it's usually made by me. It's more personal and fulfilling, at least for me it is.

This time of year is also the end of a period of time and the beginning of another. It's a time when we draw conclusions, we make wishes and try to believe that it will be different from January 1st, that we will cross a magical door that will take us to a land of new opportunities, and that if we are lucky we don't need to change a thing in our behavior or our lives; because we've made promises and resolutions that will be  buried in the year that has just passed, and the new year, with its new beginning's powers, will make everything all right again.

Story of - lake and sky

I just realized that after all this time I have never written about Arco.

Arco is a town near Lake Garda, in the Trentino region of Italy. It is situated in the north. Arco is near the southernmost border, 10 mins from the tip of the Lake. It has a beautiful castle that is in ruins, and my boyfriend's parents have this apartment that overlooks it.

Whenever we can we come up here, it is the kind of place that recharges your energies...and we love it for that.

Every time we are thinking to come up here ( I am writing laying in bed in Arco) our car gives us some trouble, at first it was the clutch, then it was the gear stick...this time it was the muffler. I don't know what kind of evil spirit has possessed our car, but it gives me the shivers.

The trip up here is almost aways the same, we take the highway then a pitstop to get some junk food at the service station, we get off at the “Brescia Est “ exit and take the long panoramic route that runs along the lake.

This trip is almost aways the same, and this is the beauty of it. I know exactly where we can see the lake for the first time: just a little triangle between houses and trees, quite far away, that under the summer sun gets wavy golden streaks, and in the winter a pale dark greenish blue.

This road is a windy road, that follows the hills and turns of the lake and its lakeside towns. It follows the careless urban development of the old. Sometimes it widens and sometimes it gets as narrow as it can get.

This road gives and it takes; it gives us a glimpse of the past, when roads were built to go from house to house and not from town to town. It gives us the most wonderful sights of the lake and of its majestic peaks. In the summer it serves as the guide that takes us to see the lake become a mirror for the sun and sky. In the winter for the sight of mighty mountains covered in white snow. The only thing it takes in return is a little patience with the tourists and a bit of our time.

It also takes us to Arco, and the most wonderful sight of all is when it turns north, and we can see the peaks one behind the other, and in the middle a smaller one, with the Arco castle on top of it.

Strange situations that make me wonder about stuff.

Sometimes I wonder: is it better to try something new or to follow what generations have experienced before us??? What is the best way to go about life?

And another question pops into mind: what is the best way to understand a given situation? How can we trully pereive it? Can we only do it by our means of undestanding our surroudings OR can we really undestand the situation without any interference of our own ideas and pre-conceptions. 

So the related questions come naturally:  if in the past we've been maltreated, can we ever be at ease in strange situations where we are not completely sure what is going on? EVEN if we are with people that we are sure love us dearly?  What is it that make a good friend? Or a partner? What can we expect from others? Or are we truly alone in this earth? This really scare me, I donnot need people to assure me that everything will be fine, but when I feel that the people that really matter in my life are unable to do so, i feel lost and hollow.

But at the same time I ask myself if it is only my way of computing it in a emotional way...and I lack in objectiveness. 

I need a vacation.

Dreaming awake - universe and dinosaurs

I woke up this morning to a thought that I find quite elegant and pleasing; it has to do with dinosaurs and the universe.

I was like: " whaaaat? Can it be real? " well, it can, in my head and in this blog it can.

In the last two days I've read Calvino's short story "the Dinosaurs" ( thoroughly recommend it) and seen, what I think is the first episode of " through the worm hole" where they explained the M- theory. 

A propos, I never really agreed with the Big Bang theory, of course I will never say it's bonkers, because I ain't a scientist or anything, but it never convinced me in the whole, so some time ago I learned about some of the different theories about how the universe began, some of which I could see as more plausible. I also think that we will never really know what happened, because humans are a proud lot, whatever we find out will serve to demolish or confirm something we already though through...with our limited means that we only develop by understanding our limited surrounding.

Anyhow, back to my crazy though: taking into account the fact that we also don't exactly know what happened with the dinos ( yeah yeah, I know, the meteor...) and taking into account the membrane theory, by which there are different universes only a small distance apart, what if the extinction or the appearance of the dinosaurs is due to a small collision of two universes, where two parts merge and puff, the mighty dinos are gone. 

There, I said it. I am aware that I was half asleep! and that it's still early In the morning for me. But I thought I would share it with someone before I forget my half-awake dream.