Life in the warm summer nights

So, the northern nights are here! Days are endless, really endless.  Yesterday, a couple of days late, I celebrated the midnight sun by going out. It was a hot, hot day and a hot, hot, and loooong night. Now, let’s be clear: we do not have any midnight Sun here, but very nearly so. The …

Time and time, here and there

When is it time to live? In Italy, time is very subjective: it’s usual to be late, 10-20 minutes are totally acceptable and my friends would arrive up to an hour or more late for any dinner or social gathering, no problem. Here in Denmark, where I live now, they are ultra-punctual! I’ve had to …

Why buy Art?

Today we are living much more at home. I any case, one can easily move to an entirely different place and situations are fluid.  Buying art to hang on the walls is actually a good wellness investment! It makes any place feel ‘uniquely yours’ and homey. And a move doesn’t change that factor. We tend …

When the lights go off

One is living the ‘perfect’ life until… one discovers that the lights went off. And so did I, after years here in my new home, I found my light had gone off. The world had gone dark, my spark was… where? I thought I had it right here! I went about a few days thinking …

Truth, wisdom and transformation: love and children

I’m of the old generation: my mother stayed home with us children and it makes a huge difference. Of course one could say she ‘had to’ because she was living abroad and didn’t know the languages at first, and back then women couldn’t easily work, they were expected to stay home and rear children. But …