It feels like yesterday, but nearly a year has passed since the first newsletter from O&L—a stretch of time (spanning 24 issues) designed partly to close the gap between us and you, our readers, moving from the three-month rhythm of our print magazine to the twice-monthly pace of the newsletter you're reading now.
It feels like yesterday, but almost forty years have gone by since O&L's first issue. It feels like yesterday, yet just enough time has passed for someone to move from "being a mother to being a grandmother, if not a great-grandmother," as Manuela Bartesaghi writes, recalling the birth of Insieme, the cyclostyled newsletter that (as we told you this summer) wanted to cry out "it's possible!" in places where fear or prejudice had stolen courage.
It feels like yesterday, perhaps, because stories of friendship shouldn't bear the weight of time: they seem of today and will belong to tomorrow. Ombre e Luci will always hold among its deepest commitments the custodianship and sharing of these stories, continuing the path begun one ordinary afternoon in 1974.
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The Classics... From a Summer Past
Summer is over. Starting again can be hard—especially in this particular and still complicated 2020. All the more reason, then, not to forget hope as an ingredient in our lives: "Hope sets every action and project of ours in motion. Without it, we proceed with the engine off," Mariangela Bertolini wrote in an editorial at the end of summer 2002. An invitation of incredible timeliness today. (And besides, who said vacations have to happen only in summer?)Seen for Us by Claudio Cinus
As president of the juvenile court in Reggio Calabria, Judge Roberto Di Bella worked to restore to some young people the youth that an unhealthy and criminal family environment had stolen from them. In Word of Honor, Sophia Luvarà documents the powerful dialogue between the judge and these young people, who finally had their chance at salvation. That dialogue later became an actual government protocol, as we discover reading Free to Choose (reviewed by Alessandra Moraca in L'Osservatore Romano), a book written by Di Bella himself with Monica Zapelli.Benedetta's Blog
It Started SUPER WELL
School started SUPER WELL! I began on Monday, September 14 at 8:30. Since I'm in my third year of hospitality school and chose front-of-house service, they moved me to a different campus—I don't go to via dei Genovesi anymore but to via della Paglia. Keep reading...The Survey – We keep asking, dear readers, but it matters to us: thanking the many who've already answered the survey, we invite anyone who hasn't yet to fill it out. Just two minutes!