How many times have I written and rewritten this article…so now, hopefully, this version will be finally sufficient. I spend as much time as possible in nature every day. It helps clear the mind of unpleasant thoughts, and it gives energy. But I perceive a difference between being in the wild nature and one’s own garden. The mountain we live on has many trails made hundreds of years ago by people who lived there in stone houses. Even today it is possible to see the remains of their gardens and the places they cared for. Every time I’m there, I imagine what it was like to live in their time.…
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Slow living in the Italian way
When people talk about slow living, I imagine being in a Scandinavian hygge simple minimalist house in the middle of the woods, where I sip coffee while writing down my thoughts and emotions, lifting my head and looking out the window at the landscape where it is snowing and a bird flies by. Chopin’s nocturnes playing in the background. Let’s say that I am very far from this interpretation. And yet I realized that I experienced real slow living. And it all happens here, in Italy. The most frenetic and loud slow living. Italian slow chaos I remember me and a friend of mine, who lived here years ago, as…
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Simple living in a modern context
My life is leading me to a place where simplicity is a core value. I was really tired of everything being so complicated. I believed that I had a complicated nature and therefore a complicated life. But what really happened was that I resisted the flow of life and I tried to forcibly direct it somewhere I thought was better. But what do I know about the plan of my soul? My mind knows nothing about it for sure. Over time, I’ve noticed that the theme of simplicity began to appear more often in my life. Not only because I was tired of the complications, but also because I needed…