"Once upon a Santa Claus" The post that follows is the revival, in part magazine, a note I wrote last year on Christmas day to remember my father for the first time I'm on earth, could not be with us for a mystery that concerns us all, but he has already experienced: The end of life. He always said that "since no one has ever come back, then you will be so bad." Without knowing Vasco Rossi "How many people believe there is afterlife, something, who knows how many people will still, be content that my father showed ....", with these words, his spirit Rock.
I was strange reading. It 'a kind of overexposure. Too personal, no doubt. So much so that if the theme was another, any more, I deleted the note, and certainly would not have posted here, but they are on my blog, within my "rooms", and we want to see my father too, because it is my belief that ' only life possible for those who died, resides in the memory of those who live, and he lives with me because I think about it every day, even alive, but I want around me, because my father, and do not need to say the least.
À chacun son père noël. do not know why I say it in French. Indeed yes, but I will not explain it. This is my first Christmas without a "father" as they say in Senigallia. By me in Abruzzo is called "Daddy" and in any case there will be. His absence brings back old memories. One such example, when he returned from Germany at Christmas and brought me chocolate gift in the shape of a Christmas tree or a giant rabbit. It was like a ritual, and I was happy, not the chocolate itself, but for the idea that this gift had to do to get me this far. I always had the traveler syncope even when I did not. Today I know that this "disease" has sent me my father, in a kind of "all inclusive" genetic ... difficult character orsaggine-proof patent, ultra thin hair and liscissimi in spite of my last name (which to me seems a hoax), a sharp irony, sarcasm almost, and also the ability to laugh and entertain others. Finally, this thing, the syndrome of the wandering shepherd Asia, as the poetry of Leopardi (who literally saved me from impending rejection in high school). My father, my father's father, his three brothers and her only sister were all female travelers, emigrants, to be exact, of those who bring their homeland in the heart, but leave it for ever, without chance to come back. His brothers ended up in America (Central / Latin America) and there are dead. My father, after trying them as the streets of Colombo, has opted for Germany, but he eventually went back home and you are no longer moved in recent years, perhaps he could recover the long absence. His return has not been rosy. Too much alike to not clash. They started as large distances, the Cold War, open hostility.
The distances between us have always existed, but without the excuse that they were the miles between my house and Germany, I weighed a lot more. The chocolate is no longer arrived at Christmas, though he was there and perhaps the hope of remedy, sooner or later. Maybe, "then" to remedy really happened, but it was he who exceed certain limits and meet me. It was the time of my trip to London. Perhaps it is recognized that gesture, and appreciated that the ripercorressi its paths as geographically distant, and I believe him to be sorry to see me back so quickly. He knew better than I that make sense only if the trip will last a lifetime. I think more and more. My journey then gave me back a father who almost overnight became interested aloud to my life and my projects, a father "normal" that eventually helped me.
My Christmas this year will be sad, hard to bear, boring to celebrate. I would disappear from the world of good for as long binges and travel in space if only we could, because my dad this Christmas is not here. I wonder where all the time is over, if it really is everything finished. According to the laws of God at this time is in heaven and it's all a pleasure. According to the world of marketing, take a coffee with Bonolis and Clooney in a state of heavenly serenity. Then there would be "to me" that goes beyond any doctrinal teaching and business. My instinct, in addition to the data collected here and there all my life, I suggest another solution, much less attractive, more "natural" I'm afraid.
When I look up I see blue, gray or yellow, depending on the weather ... when I look at the ground I see green, gray or otherwise, depends on them ... in general I have left the earth as a concept difficult to manage. I prefer the sea or the sky, but it is I walk on earth, this is where I live, and as far as I know, this is where I die. My father then? My mind imagines kept in an airless space, in a game of Chinese boxes made of iron, wood, concrete, marble and flowers - in order of coercion - and above, that is where he can not access, there is sky, which I still have the privilege to see. Perhaps no coincidence that now more than ever, spend more time with his head in the air and on land, among my fellow men.
The fact that he will be there at Christmas, Easter or mid-August as then, is like one of those features drawn on maps, and a natural boundary between before and after. Before I was, and now I am. Nothing is changed, yet everything has changed. I think the things I've always thought, but with an 'honesty that first disguised, sometimes repressed not to feel too much weight on him. Wanting to find a logic at all costs, could mean that sooner or later, like it or not, I'll resume the journey, not only in spatial terms. Will I go back crashing down to people, I'll have to take dozens of dialogues buried or abandoned, I have to leave the nest of paper that I stitched on ...
My nature, if not impossible with busts had forced the Chinese was to a more concrete, I gladly craft dream: Crete, oils, chalks, pencils, paint thinner, impossible smells and matter, this was my natural inclination. A life of thought sometimes I just lifts off and takes me too far from what I can move the veins. These years of violent and altogether useless autocostrizione, I drew him a 'yet another geographic line, one of my limits. I am comforted to know that everyone, really everyone has one, it amuses me that some do not even suspect, and when I think I'm wrong every single important choice, then I realize that is not true, that all makes sense, if only because Makes no sense really, if the ultimate meaning is to finish as canned sardines.
attempted by speeches immense and immensely banal as "life" I conclude that I understood the essence (or rather, my essence) only when I saw the fading breath of those who started in with my world. My father without a soul on that bed was the heaviest and most serious minutes of my entire existence. I've fixed all the time, sometimes with a morbid curiosity and final. I thought for a moment in "21 Grams" in the film more topic I could think of and I found it amazing that I could think of a movie, things everyday. I touched his skin still warm, I shook his hand, perhaps for the first time in thirty years, and I kept close, very close to mine for more than an hour, almost atrophy, wondering fucking reason for that something so simple and obvious it had not ever happened, not once before this moment that is the equivalent of any "too late" because he's gone. It does not matter how hard I thought before, the theory is nothing compared to that second that alone is enough to light in all its banal things that seemed to show up who knows how complex. You live and you die, you can breathe and then you stop breathing, you see and then you stop to see. In light of this obvious fact, many social myths / trade I have even more unbearable, especially when you've got to understand him a bit 'like everyone else.
At each of the What have I ever, but I lost the 'absolute, that was my biggest temptation. Today they are on and maybe, "relatively" better, with less than playacting in the head, and a principle of disenchantment that turns a little 'time my high expectations after years of "vain beating" and "vain hopes" as the poet who wrote I read up to ride the lines.
The mind thinks things never thought of before, and has the courage, perhaps a bit 'naive to tell someone to go and sometimes to other illusion that it is clear that new path that separates me head in two, and that but my thing is, nothing but my own. Back on the no man's land. It's always me, and I'll never be me. Now I know I am mortal.
All I knew at the first rationale, now runs through my veins and I runs through the body from head to foot all day, without rest. If there is a side effect is that my life is now filled with urgency. All that could wait until yesterday hours pulling my hair, tormenting me as an obsession, so I am surprised it had not yet exploded, Hiroshima style. I do not think about the future. It stopped being a priority several years ago, and now even less, now I have this, and hence the perception of everything changes so immense. I reacted in an atypical final journey of my father.
Di I left too soon, but I did as he liked, with a suitcase in his hand. I went to Paris because I would have only been able to go, and if ever a decision was the right one, this was it, not once but twice, always a choice between more just for me. I love this city where every corner has been crossed this opportunity to give their life to years of study at times Atrophy, returning to lives lived out of nowhere and kept me company. I said goodbye to friends in the most unexpected places (cemeteries, for example) between Truffaut, Baudelaire and many others in search of a thought where rests the body of those with the word or the image has been able to talk about things that many feel even as their own, but few would know to express in those terms. I am a bit ashamed 'for this, but Paris has served me to return to earth, to find any trace of bonheur which is the essence of the grand villas . I was almost correct. I had the terrible indelicacy of being selfish. Maybe that's why I'm a little 'sick to balance everything. Then once he returned to the usual purgatory (Ligabue says well, that's a place which one you choose) I had a naive extravagance and like every person I like to think that my father has sent me not to drown me. Some kind of angel, without a real body, not a life of its own. I can summarize in like a wonderful idea, to save me from the precipice at least once a day without having a clue as appropriate, are good at acting. As I said, I think things have to kill in the bud and do not know where all this will take me. Will surely be a different wander.
After much talk freely, I do not have much to add. There is no morality, there is no message, just floating along in distant places, may be inappropriate, too personal. But I've always been so. I can not be jealous of my thoughts, but only because I do not think that share will diminish.

The image above is of Talani. It is bad law, so rewrite the contents:
"Travelling at night is always better, especially if it's a night you are wearing a blue coat and blue, but of those hot and heavy, good ones. If even then your eyes shine you can be confused with the sky and the stars. "