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STORIES OF REBIRTH
Which garden do you like?
THE PATH TO SELF KNOWLEDGE PASSES ALSO THROUGH A GARDEN
OUR PERSONALITY, OUR ASPIRATIONS AND OUR CAPACITY TO DEVELOP THEM MIRROR IN THE TRANQUILLITY OF A SECRET GARDEN OR IN THE SIMPLICITY OF A SMALL GREEN CORNER INSIDE A COURTYARD. WHAT CAN’T BE TOLD WITH WORDS CAN BE COMMUNICATED THROUGH AN ORIGINAL SYMBOL, LIKE THE GARDENING TRADITION.
THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK RETRACES THE HISTORY OF OVER 30 TYPES OF GARDEN AND IN EACH OF THEM IT IS POSSIBLE TO FIND THE WISH TO TAKE CARE OF THE DEEPEST AND MOST AUTHENTIC PART OF OUR INNER SELF. SO WE FIND OURSELVES ONE-TO-ONE WITH OUR MEMORY AND A SKIPPED HEARTBEAT REVEALS US THAT THIS MOMENT AND THIS PLACE FIT US PERFECTLY.
IN THE END, THIS IS THE MEANING OF THE BOOK: “… TO HELP PEOPLE DISCOVERING SOMETHING MORE OF THEMSELVES BY LOOKING AT THESE IMAGES”.
REBIRTH IS A GREEN AND SILENT PATH.
Duccio Demetrio, “Di che giardino sei? Conoscersi attraverso un simbolo”
(ndt "Which garden do you like? Know yourself through a symbol")
Edizioni Mimesis, Italy
ALCHEMY OF REBIRTH
THE OLIVE, THE SACRED FRUIT OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
Fundamental ingredient for Rebirth, the olive has been depicted pictorially well before Christ: testimonies of primitive olive -pressing machines are kept in museums in Crete, Israel and Egypt. Oil was shown not only as a food but also as a medicinal, cosmetic and energy source. The importance of the olive and its fruit comes to us from the ancient times: the Greek myth attributes to Athena the birth of the first olive tree, the tree of peace and well-being, that the goddess gave as a gift to the people of Attica to light night, dress wounds and provide nourishment.
Sometimes habits lead us to forget how lucky we are in being children of the Mediterranean Euroregion, heirs to a light culture and an environment spontaneously generous and rich. It is enchanting to grasp the beauty and goodness of what surrounds us and it is also helpful to rediscover that harmony too often lost between offices and PC.
The natural presence of vitamin E, whose nutrient and antioxidant properties are recognised, and the right amount of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, make the Extra Virgin OliveOil an irreplaceable product.
Average composition of an olive:
Oil 15-20%
Water 30-60%
Sugars 19%
Fiber 5.8%
Protein 1.6%
The 96-98% of the oil is contained in the pulp, while only 2-4% is contained in the seed.
ALCHEMY OF REBIRTH
#8 | Alchemy of a city
Venice, with its uniqueness, left indelible traces in the soul of the artists who arrived in the Lagoon. Among these famous travelers, even a young English Lord was kidnapped from this decadent and at the same time lively charm: George Gordon Byron. The young poet, once left England because of debts and scandals, had embarked on the Grand Tour and finally arrived in Venice where he lived for about three years, from 1816 to 1819.
At Palazzo Mocenigo on the Grand Canal,where he lived with two monkeys, a fox and two hounds, he composed part of the Childe Harold, Beppo and the first songs of his masterpiece, Don Juan, alternating writing with several love encounters, swimming to the Lido and visiting the Jewish Cemetery or San Lazzaro degli Armeni, great places to fuel his romantic spirit.
Venice has played a key role in theformation of Byron: he had a certain spiritual affinity with the city, given by “the gloomy gaiety of the gondolas”. Paradoxical city, full of contrasts (as Byron himself), Venice became the muse of the English poet, with its luxurious carnivals and the decadent glory of a declining city. Byron made famous the bridge that connects the Doge’s Palace with the prisons inventing the name "Bridge of Sighs”, for the prisoners’ sighs seeing for the last time Venice and freedom:
I stood inVenice, on the Bridge of Sighs,
A palace and a prison on each end:
I saw from out the wave her structures rise
As from the stroke of the enchanter’s wand:
A thousand years their cloudy wings expand
Around me, and a dying Glory smiles
O’er the far times, when many a subject land
Looked to the wingèd Lion’s marble piles,
Where Venice sate in state, throned on her thousand isles!
(Childe Harold, IV, 1)
LordByron, Selected Poems
Oxford University Press
STORIES OF REBIRTH
#8 | The Light Between Oceans
On the occasion of Biennale Cinema, the usual column dedicated to books moves to visual arts, presenting "The Light Between Oceans", which will be released in Italy in February 2017. The film is based on the bestseller novel by M. L. Stedman, published in 2012.
The film has been presented in competition at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 1st, 2016 and is the dramatic story of Tom, a lighthouse keeper in a small Australian island between the Indian Ocean and the Austral Ocean, and his wife Isabel.
The first part of the film flows focusing on Tom's psychology - he is a reduce from the First World War, who finds peace in the immensity of nature and in the isolation of the lighthouse. He falls in love with Isabel and the couple will address several difficulties, up to the moment when they found a sank boat carrying a baby crying beside the body of a man.
The film offers us the opportunity to reflect on absolute themes, thanks to the stunning photography by Adam Arkapaw and to the beautiful soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat. The picture is deeply moving, putting us in touch with our emotions. The talented actors with their performance urge us to recover the value of forgiveness, as an act of true Rebirth and as a timely message that nowadays it is important to share.
The light between oceans by Derek Cianfrance, with Michael Fassbender,Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz. New Zealand , 2016. (further information here)