After that long cry, I felt emptied of everything, lost, alone. But that evening I made a decision": in words both strong and poetic, Mariangela Bertolini recounted in 1974 her passage — an afternoon at home, tears flowing, from darkness into the light of motherhood to a child with a disability. And how her heart, "tight and hard, petrified," had "opened to others." A testimony to treasure when facing any hardship or deep sorrow life puts before us. At the center of it all: dialogue. Maria Grazia Pennisi's article made this clear from another angle, urging us not to underestimate our own capacity: "the step we must take (…) is never too long."
These are central questions for Ombre e Luci. If the encounter with disability was the focus of a recent issue, the path opened back in that legendary 1974. Always together in Insieme, that remarkable log capable of giving (as Stefano Guarino still tells us) "trust and strength to the timid," turning silence into echo.
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Great Classics … from a Summer Past
Summer, ideally vacations and summer camps. But what is a summer camp at Fede e Luce? It is friendship, closeness, and discovery; a test of integration, the "joy of life lived together"; a sharing that leaves you breathless. Mariangela Bertolini wrote about it in an editorial from 1989, describing the amazement of a doctor visiting a camp: "And they pay to come here too!"Seen for Us by Claudio Cinus
Women are at the center of the two films Claudio Cinus presents today. Carmela Hernandez, a Mexican woman fleeing with four children, her body an act of civil disobedience in Philadelphia in Angels on Diamond Street by Petr Lom; and the three protagonists of the documentary This Train I Ride, who ride alone across the roofs of trains throughout the United States, searching to understand themselves and their place in the world.Benedetta's Blog
Happily, But Every Once in a While
I had to go back to Rome one day in August to be measured for the reception uniform for the school starting in September. But I'm still angry because they closed early this year. In September I'm changing schools. My hotel institute is in Trastevere and has two locations. Keep reading...The Survey – We're asking again, dear readers, but it matters to us: thank you to all who've already responded to our survey. If you haven't yet, we invite you to fill it out. Just two minutes!