Spend it all.

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Spend.

Spend words.

Spend thoughts.

Do not accept to live on the surface.

Use all your energy to elaborate, to create, to make it extremely complicated.

Forget the "keep it simple".

Everything can be simple, still you can live it deeply and intensively.

Complicated means alive.

Make questions. Lots of.

Ask yourself difficult questions.

Force yourcelf on the long and winding path.

The steep climb gets to the heights.

Make it impossible to fall asleep late at night.

Impossible to close your eyes.

Impossible to neglet, to forget all the question marks hunting your mind.

Be inconvenient and say what you think.

Dare think what you really want to think.

Make it tough to wake up and smile.

Ask why.

Ask again. And again.

Seek truth. Accept the rarity of truth. Never give up looking for it.

Wear a mask, every day, and pretend to be a simple person.

Do not even think for a moment to become one.

Do not put yourself on sale. 

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“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”

Gatsby 20s Illegal Party at Rivalta Cafè in Florence.

For a few hours, back to the roaring twenties!

"And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dreams must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...

And one fine morning...

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong age?

Since the movie has been released, everyone has been falling in love with Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties.

Truth is that only a few people actually know what "The Great Gatsby" is about.

F. S. Fitzgerald managed to describe how our current society would look like..

A cahos of excess, vice, powerful dreams and hope. 

"The Great Gatsby" is about hope.  

About our very hopes and illusions.

About the elegance we lost.

Tips:

"The Beautiful and Damned" and "Tales of the Jazz Age" by F. S. Fitzgerald

Made (and drunk) in Italy!

Thanks to Mary&Ettore - Super Friends

If I say "made in Italy", what do you think I'm talking about?

Handbags? Shoes? The latest collection by Gucci?

Wrong.

I'm actually talking about something much more precious.

....Wine :)

You take your made-in-somewhere car, 

Leave the city centre with all its noise, pidgeons and expensive useless but "cool" shops (made in China - for the record),

Switch your cell (and brain) off,

And decide to get lost..

Yes, 

You actually have to get lost. Better with some really good friends.

Drive around those marvellous hills, enjoying silence and peace. 

All of a sudden you find yourself in Wine Wonderland:

It is called Capezzana..

 A die-for place, great food, and

a world champion vin santo

(Yep, it means Saint Wine, guess why??)

You made it: you found the "made in Italy" heaven.

Let them think that the best and coolest things in Florence are Pitti and Luisa Via Roma.

 

http://www.capezzana.it/

(A Small Short Sad Thought: 

My Nikon is actually on its way to ReflexHeaven. I didn't have the heart to take her to Capezzana and watch me drink all that delicious wine. 

She wants to die at home. 

In the meantime, as you can see, I am using an Iphone to take my pics... Yes, I know: simply shameful.

Let's hope I become rich quite quickly and can afford a good replacement!)

Izis Bidermanas & The Puzzle Missing Pieces Issue.

Does Every puzzle need all its pieces to fit in..or not?

I went today to the Izis Bidermanas exhibition @the MNAF, in Florence, sure that a lot of the pieces of my world, my life and myself were missing.
Restless. Nervous. Anxious.

Now, with the memory of a memorable afternoon with a magnificent friend I'm not so sure that I need all the pieces to fit into place.
Some pieces of the past don't belong to my puzzle any more. Some others have become essential.
I'll always be something incomplete, because my nature is.
I'll always be seeking peace but I won't really desire it. Ever.
I'll always be looking for something, for the true side of living, the real nature of the people I love. For a different world to live in.
I'll be expecting distances and absences and I'll demand the presence of those I love staying with.
Even if I don't have a perfect puzzle inside me, I'm oddly feeling complete.

When you look at something really really beautiful, something that reflects and rapresents what you think art is, you're able to look at your life in a different way.
In front of those pictures I was forced to be honest with myself and to accept that I've never wanted peace. That I love my past, I'm perfectly able to accept it and that I'm able to face my future as well.

I want my life to be like a perfect b&w photograph, with strong contrasts, harmony and the magic of things you don't deeply understand.
Izis Bidermanas and Paris des reves weren't the only works of art this afternoon... Thanks to a beautiful friend that always makes me feel at home. Who's really a Work of Art.

Steam in Florence - © Estate of Laura Poggi

Stella

Dream More. Stella&Me - © Estate of Laura Poggi

Mirrored Friends & Philosophical Talking. - © Estate of Laura Poggi

... Go Mommy, Go!