My boys are teaching me – among a lot of things – one important thing: being open. Being open for new experiences, new people, new places, new tastes, new colors, new feelings. For example, I’ve never dreamt of going fishing, cleaning fishes and cooking them. And when you open our fridge right […]
5.45 p.m. in a restaurant in Venice with their father Big boy: “Hi mom, how are you?” Me: “Fine. Thanks. How about you?” Big boy: “Fine. Mom, can you give me the permission for some apps. I want to play some games on my iPod?” Me: “Hmmm… you want to […]
Sitting at the lake and trying to bring calm into my body. No way. Head is working. Where is the switch? Thinking of the yoga teacher and remembering a yoga posture. Body in quiet pose, head trying to concentrate on the breathing. Head rotating. Not finding the switch for the breathing. Giving up. Feeling […]
Life is like an explosion. It starts like a normal Monday. But it wasn’t a normal day. I am sure you had your normal Monday coming back to work from the weekend, a bit lazy and still dreaming of doing nothing. Me instead, for the first time in my life since I finished my […]
Everybody is gone: my boys on a cruise with their father, some friends in the States, in Greece, France, Italy and so on and on. I am traveling in my mind. I was again a student, hanging around at the river in Zurich discussing with my friends about Heidegger or Derrida, smoking my […]
It was in my first class. I was seven. I had to do those additions: 6+7=12 or 13? 5+8=24 or 23 or 22? I was looking at my fingers, counting, recounting and I was so nervous about these figures. They were turning around in my head. I walked to my teacher, an elderly woman, […]
8.35 p.m. during summer vacation Little boy: “If I have to watch your film, I want to play with your legos.” Big boy: “I don’t want to watch again your ‘Baymax’.” Little boy: “But I don’t want to watch ‘Wasabi’.” Big boy: “Why don’t you want to watch it?” Little boy: […]
12.45 a.m. first day of summer vacation Little boy: “Where is my coffee?” Big boy: “What…?” Little boy: “You promised me a cold coffee.” Big boy: “I beg you pardon.” Little boy: “Don’t you remember?” Big boy: “What…?” Little boy: “For sure. We made a bet and I was […]
While a lot of friends of mine spent their summer vacation on the seaside, my father decided that hiking in the Swiss mountains was the best thing to do with his family. My brother and me tried to have fun with our father’s hobby. But we were very often “like a cat and a […]
3.40 p.m. in the living-room after school Little boy: “What’s wrong? Why are you crying?” Big boy: “Hmm… (sobbing).” Little boy: “What happened?” Big boy: “Well… two class mates wanted to beat me?” Little boy: “Just like this?” Big boy: “No, because I’m talking too much to E…” Little boy: […]