It’s a very cold winter it seems to me, and I not going out much these days. Plus teleworking, plus covid restrictions equals a time not extremely exiting and social lately. But in the meantime they took away from my mouth a tooth with an oral surgery procedure, so I not getting bored anyway.
Third Covid vaccine dose today, the so called “booster”.
Foundation’s calling
I am reading a Jack Reacher’s book by Lee Child and I like the feeling of liking it and enjoying looking forward to reading more of the story. Once or twice a year it happens to me, a lousy reader, to come across a book i feel good about. Like the recent ones on chemistry and quantum mechanics by Tim James.
And I got the feeling I need to return soon, again, to dream in the Foundation’s Universe.
Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy is my favorite novel. My dream. Feeling like returning back home.
Also Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 Space Odissey and Randevouz with Rama are immensely great. But Foundation is touching base with myself.
At the feet of the Vesuvius
4 days at the feet of the Vesuvius, where I did grow up … like many other things. 4 days with an heroic Diego, who gives us love, joy and vision of the sense of life.
Planet Venus

Starting November visiting the Stuttgart Planetarium with our kids, and celebrating the Anniversary of our encounter in Milan 18 years ago with 🌹 red roses and Paolo Conte’s concert tickets!
“Venus if you will, Please send a little girl for me to thrill. A girl who wants my kisses and my arms, A girl with all the charms of you. Venus, make her fair, A lovely girl with sunlight in her hair. And take the brightest stars up in the skies, And place them in her eyes for me.“
Nico was here!

A night out with my dear friend.
Compari in Ländle
Meeting Matthias. A short but intense nice time. Thanks for visiting us Compare!
Tai Chi 2.0
Today first time Qigong and Tai Chi lesson in Herrenberg. First time ever live (and not online/remote). In the open air, with a beautiful countryside view in front of me. Splendid. A great start of weekend.
First time, Training Day.

Sweet Morning

Staycation
I have lived a Summer Staycation with my family and friends here in Herrenberg which is a place new for us, while was always a place for vacation for us. And now is our home town and our place.
With Nonno and Nonna visiting us, Blaubeuren @ Guni’s Klassentreffen, Calw, Opa and Oma, Pauline and Almi, MaisLabyrinth, Salvio, Herrenberg Naturfreibad, Tübingen, Spielplatz, Spielplatz, playing football with Diego and Wanda, Spielplatz, Spielplatz, Diego, Wanda, Guni.
A Summer full of love and happyness. I have been enjoying the kids 24 hours a day during the Kita closing period.
And today, that the Kita and my work start again, with a feeling of nostalgia I have been walking alone along the same path around home – from home to the bakery and playground – which Wanda Diego and myself walked together many mornings this summer.
With Salvio!

È stato dolce ed emozionante vedere i miei figli interagire con il mio migliore amico Salvio, durante i tre giorni incui è stato qui.
Mi rendo conto che ricevo da loro, da Diego e Wanda, così tanto che sono io a crescere e cambiare insieme a loro. Imparo ogni giorno di più da loro, ogni giorno una lezione nuova, una dimostrazione dell’amore e di ciò che è giusto e che conta. Come oggi il palloncino a forma di unicorno per la piccola, dolce, immensa Wanda. Domani, spero, farò un errore in meno. Domani, spero, sarò migliore di oggi. Grazie a voi, piccoli miei.
3 Gnocchi in Calw

A beautiful day out in Calw with my amazing kids. Lot of Spielplatz, eating Spaetzle and Salmon in the MarktPlatz, visiting Opa’s church, they can’t miss gelati, driving through the countryside, lot of fun and lot of love.
@Blaubeuren

The faraway line that met and melted with my line.
Country Comfort

Soon the pines will be falling everywhere
Village children fight each other for a share
And the 609 goes roaring past the creek
Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week
I saw Grandma yesterday down at the store
Well, she’s really going fine for eighty-four
Well she asked me if sometime I’d fix her barn
Poor old girl, she needs a hand to run the farm
And it’s good old country comfort in my bones
Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known
Just an old-fashioned feeling fully grown
Country comfort’s any truck that’s goin’ home
Down at the well they’ve got a new machine
The foreman says it cuts manpower by fifteen
“But that ain’t natural”, well so old Clay would say
He’s a horse-drawn man until his dying day
Now the old fat goose is flying ‘cross the sticks
The hedgehog’s done in clay between the bricks
And the rocking chair’s a-creaking on the porch
Across the valley moves the herdsman with his torch
Songwriters: Elton John / Bernie Taupin

After too many months…
Finally Ugo and Anna. We needed so much to meet again. The kids needed so much the nonni. Beautiful three weeks in August with tge Nonni in Herrenberg.

Wanda & Diego…Every day they amaze us with their beauty and with the things they do and say.
And today is the last day of the maternity leave you started months ago Guni. Thank you Guni, it’s been a beautiful and increadibly important time for us, for our kids, for our Family.

Dinner for 2, outside, on a Friday evening. Oma und Opa entertaining the kids. Enjoying Herrenberg.
Campioni d’Europa!

Italy is for the second time football European Champion.
European Champion 1968, 2020.
World Champion 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006.
In Herrenberg







We now live in Herrenberg! We are so happy about all the new beautiful things around us and looking forward to enjoying the ones ahead.

Leaving Berlin. Driving direction South, direction another new life.
Second Covid19 vaccine dose today
Rediscovering

I am sweating, struggling, I am puzzled sometimes by the chaos and artificial entropy that we humans are able to generate. But I am also having more fun and enjoying. A new job role, new environment, new goals. And looking forward to live in a new place, Herrenberg.
Geodesic and time dilation, about falling objects. It was the missing piece of my superficial understanding of the General Relativity. Imagined and checked.
I have cried and I cry for the overwhelming emotions I get from the music of Lou Reed, from the genius of Albert Einstein. For beauty.

“qui arriva l’idea straordinaria, il puro genio: il campo gravitazionale non è diffuso nello spazio: il campo gravitazionale è lo spazio. Questa è l’idea della teoria della relatività generale. Lo «spazio» di Newton, nel quale si muovono le cose, e il «campo gravitazionale», che porta la forza di gravità, sono la stessa cosa. È una folgorazione. Una semplificazione impressionante del mondo: lo spazio non è più qualcosa di diverso dalla materia: è una delle componenti «materiali» del mondo. Un’entità che ondula, si flette, s’incurva, si storce. Non siamo contenuti in un’invisibile scaffalatura rigida: siamo immersi in un gigantesco mollusco flessibile. Il Sole piega lo spazio intorno a sé e la Terra non gli gira intorno perché tirata da una misteriosa forza, ma perché sta correndo diritta in uno spazio che si inclina. Come una pallina che rotoli in un imbuto: non ci sono misteriose «forze» generate dal centro dell’imbuto, è la natura curva delle pareti a fare ruotare la pallina. I pianeti girano intorno al Sole e le cose cadono perché lo spazio si incurva. Come descrivere questo incurvarsi dello spazio? Il più grande matematico dell’Ottocento, Carl Friedrich Gauss, il «principe dei matematici», aveva scritto la matematica per descrivere le superfici curve bidimensionali, come la superficie delle colline. Poi aveva chiesto a un suo bravo studente di generalizzare il tutto a spazi curvi di dimensione tre o più. Lo studente, Bernhard Riemann, aveva prodotto una ponderosa tesi di dottorato, di quelle che sembrano completamente inutili. Il risultato era che le proprietà di uno spazio curvo sono catturate da un certo oggetto matematico, che oggi chiamiamo la curvatura di Riemann e indichiamo con R. Einstein scrive un’equazione che dice che R è proporzionale all’energia della materia. Cioè: lo spazio si incurva là dove ci sia materia. È tutto. L’equazione sta in una mezza riga, non c’è altro. Una visione – lo spazio che si incurva – e un’equazione. Ma dentro quest’equazione c’è un universo rutilante. E qui si apre la ricchezza magica della teoria. Una successione fantasmagorica di predizioni che sembrano i deliri di un pazzo, e invece sono state tutte verificate dall’esperienza.” (from “Sette brevi lezioni di fisica (Opere di Carlo Rovelli Vol. 1) (Italian Edition)” by Carlo Rovelli)
Hans, mein Igle
Diego singing this one, so sweet. I love him. And this morning he was teaching me the lyrics. “Hans mein Igel wohnt in unserem Garten”…

I miss my family. They are in Rügen since more than 2 weeks, enjoying a Kur. Home is empty without the Energy of Diego, without the Symphony of Wanda, without the Magic of my Regine.