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Pose improbabili da manichini sotto steroidi

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Nell'estate del 1995 avevo 22 anni, ero molto triste e molto magro, e, tra le altre cose, leggevo avidamente fumetti della Marvel. Nei mesi estivi era uscito uno dei più lunghi crossover dell'epoca, l'Era di Apocalisse: Charles Xavier, fondatore degli X-Men, viene ucciso nel passato, gli X-Men come li conosciamo […]

Imparare facendo o imparare ascoltando

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Loscorso fine settimana, riordinando la cantina di casa, mi sono capitate per le mani alcune vecchie foto, un tempo appese ai muri di altre case e poi finite in una scatola durante uno dei traslochi degli anni passati. Una delle foto è questa:Sono io, stravaccato alla fine della parte mobile della Route Nazionale […]

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(...)For one thing, the Holy Family wasn’t white. For another, they weren’t rich. And they weren’t powerful. But there’s another reason I like this image, beyond the clever visual puns. It is, again, the invitation to see Jesus in the “least” of our brothers and sisters. So, when we see a family broken by war
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Movember!

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Thisyear I turned 50, and I faced a couple of medical scares. While ultimately everything turned out to be fine, for a few months this Spring and Summer I had to undergo several medical tests to esclude I had a tumor either in my testicles or my prostate: I think I visited my urologist […]

[The Summer I Turned 50] 3.9: looking for adventures in Perù with long-time friends. Part 8: Lima and farewell

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Alltrips have an end, and ours came with a final stop in Lima before we headed back to Europe. Lima is a huge city, and we ended up only seeing a tiny fraction of it: we were a bit drained by all previous stops, and, while it seemed like a good idea before the trip, […]

[The Summer I Turned 50] 3.8: looking for adventures in Perù with long-time friends. Part 8: Amazon

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Wearrived in Puerto Maldonado early in the morning after spending a full night on the bus from Cusco, which surprisingly was more comfortable than any flight I've ever taken. Although the sun had just risen, the temperature was already high, along with the humidity. It was a drastic climate change from the Cordillera, confirming that […]

[The Summer I Turned 50] 3.7: looking for adventures in Perù with long-time friends. Part 7: Valle Sagrado

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Afterthe Inca Trail we went back to Cusco, and from there we left for another series of visits in the Valle Sagrado, the Inca’s sacred valley. We first met the woman of the Chinchero cooperative working the alpaca wool, then we moved to the Chinchero market, then to its Inca constructions, then to Mirai’s, then […]