The discovery of Spirto Gentil gives me courage to play the music that I love with renewed insight and spiritual strength. –Kuok-Wai Lio, pianist Pier Paolo Bellini is associate professor at the University of Molise where he teaches Sociology of Comm...
During the 2020 Christmas break we were invited by some friends from Chicago and Cincinnati to spend the week after Christmas in Florida, renting beach houses close to each other and enjoying the warmer winter beach days together. This has now become a tr...
We arrived at 18th Street, in the heart of New York. We were not sure if we were on the right side of the street, but we soon recognized it: there were several people chatting in front of the entrance, and it is easy to catch Italian words too. It is the ...
We were both moved by how many people around us are suffering in the current climate, so we sat down to judge what's going on, and drafted something to share with everyone. Writing down this judgment together helped us remember that simply when working on...
War is inevitably catastrophic. The ensuing humanitarian crisis, often followed by starvation and epidemics, with almost overwhelming destruction and loss, inevitably cause immense human suffering which simply break the human heart. When we speak about he...