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Per chi non c’è più. Per chi è solo. Per chi

Per chi non c’è più. Per chi è solo. Per chi cerca speranza. Per chi, a quei numeri, dà un nome ed un cognome.
Per chi si ama ma è distante. Per chi, ogni giorno, continua a lavorare.
Per chi, quel lavoro l’ha perso. Per ciascuno di noi. Un passo alla volta, ma ne usciremo.

E' strana la vita ai tempi del coronavirus, in mez

E' strana la vita ai tempi del coronavirus, in mezzo ad ansie e timori ti trovi a sorridere, grazie alla vicinanza (virtuale) degli amici.

E' strana e colma di dolore, perché non si può non sentire una stretta al cuore per chi sta soffrendo per la perdita dei propri cari, per anziani e soggetti a rischio attanagliati dalla paura. Per i disabili o gli ammalati che si trovano nell'impossibilità di ricevere l'assistenza necessaria, per chi si trova a lavorare in prima linea, ovvero medici e personale infermieristico, ma anche i commessi e cassieri e le tante professionalità che ogni giorni si mettono al servizio della comunità.

E' strana, ma ugualmente bellissima. Perché nella mia vita, nella vita di ciascuno, ci sono persone fantastiche.
Per un pò dovremo imparare dalle piante, ferme eppure in grado di mostrare bellezza e creatività.
Anche in questo momento (*soprattutto in questo momento*) è importante trovare e riscoprire la bellezza delle piccole cose, troppe volte date per scontate.
Grazie a tutti voi, per la composta calma con cui fate del vostro meglio, giorno per giorno.

La socialità ai tempi del coronavirus.

La socialità ai tempi del coronavirus.

In human societies, there is a constant reinforcem

In human societies, there is a constant reinforcement of the idea that animals are fundamentally more interesting and visible than plants.

"Plant blindness" is the inability to see or notic

"Plant blindness" is the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment. Plant blindness, not surprisingly, results in an under-appreciation of plants and in a limited interest in plant conservation.
Because plants barely move, grow close to each other, and are often similar in colour, our brains tend to group them together. With about 10 million bits of visual data per second transmitted by the human retina, the human visual system filters out non-threatening things like plants and clumps them together.
Plant blindness is neither universal nor inevitable. Although our human brains may be wired for plant blindness, we can overcome it with greater awareness. It’s just about imagination.

Red is the most "human" of colors. Red is the colo

Red is the most "human" of colors. Red is the color of our blood and our heart. Humans indicate emotions through color changes to our faces that relate to blood flow, being paler when we feel sick or worried, blushing when we are embarrassed, and so on.

There is a general relationship problem with plant

There is a general relationship problem with plants. We are animals, everything we have built, imagined, seen, is based on us. With Stefano Mancuso's words: “If I show someone a photo that portrays people or animals in the middle of the forest and shortly after I show the same photo without the animal subjects and I ask 'what's here?' Almost everyone will tell me 'nothing'".
It is anthropocentrism that prevents us from really seeing the world around us. Yet without plants, animals would not exist: life itself on the planet, perhaps, would not exist and, if it existed, it would be something terribly different.
I light up the plants with a red glass bottom. To make them alien, to encourage us to look at them, because a call to attention is needed.
2020 has been proclaimed International Year of Plant Health by the United Nations. The target? Remind us that life on Earth depends on the plant world.

"Red", writes historian Michel Pastoureau in Red:

"Red", writes historian Michel Pastoureau in Red: The History of a Color, "is the archetypal color, the first color that humans have learned to recognize, define and reproduce". As such it has dominated visual culture for centuries. It has the maximum wavelength and minimum energy of all visible light and that is why it is assumed to be the first color perceived by children. Red is the archetype of the spirit, of the meaning that the Self seeks and of transformation.
But it is also a sign of danger, a call to attention, to the need to look without simply observing.

Red is a call to attention, to the importance of k

Red is a call to attention, to the importance of knowing and protecting our environment. Climate events are already devastating our planet, here and now. Being wealthy and civilized is of little use when Earth shows humanity its inertia.

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