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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.

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.

The faraway line that met and melted with my line.

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.

Italy is for the second time football European Champion.

European Champion 1968, 2020.

World Champion 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006.

Leaving Berlin. Driving direction South, direction another new life.

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.

“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)

Quantum Mechanics (not to mention Strings and Multi-universes psychedelia) appears too crazy for me, and will always be as I guess I do not have enough notions plus it does not seem to fit into my brain’ settings. That is probably why I find it fascinating. According to one of the quantum theories, It’s all – we are all – about irregularities of a field!!!

I just finished reading (and partially understanding) the book “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes” by Stephen Hawking. Every night I couldn’t wait to read some pages more before falling asleep and continuing travelling the Universe in my mind. How understanding the origin of the Universe could lead to the formulation an Unified Theory (and vice-versa) and the Anthropic Principle are takeaways I am looking forward to further exploring.

“The Anthropic Principle says that the universe has to be more or less as we see it, because if it were different there wouldn’t be anyone here to observe it. … As an example of the power of the Anthropic Principle, consider the number of directions in space. It is a matter of common experience that we live in three-dimensional space. That is to say, we can represent the position of a point in space by three numbers. For example, latitude, longitude and height above sea level. But why is space three-dimensional? Why isn’t it two, or four, or some other number of dimensions, like in science fiction? In fact, in M-theory space has ten dimensions (as well as the theory having one dimension of time), but it is thought that seven of the ten spatial directions are curled up very small, leaving three directions that are large and nearly flat. It is like a drinking straw. The surface of a straw is two-dimensional. However, one direction is curled up into a small circle, so that from a distance the straw looks like a one-dimensional line. Why don’t we live in a history in which eight of the dimensions are curled up small, leaving only two dimensions that we notice? A two-dimensional animal would have a hard job digesting food. If it had a gut that went right through, like we have, it would divide the animal in two, and the poor creature would fall apart. So two flat directions are not enough for anything as complicated as intelligent life. … Read more

Buon Compleanno Wanda!
Buon Compleanno Diego!

Diego, Wanda, it’s been a beautiful day! We had breakfast eating your birthday cake made by you and Mamma Guni, surrounded by the presents you received, and you were so excited… And we spent the sunny day at wonderful Obersee, playing, eating, walking. Together.

A beautiful day, me and your mother were feeling so rewarded seeing you so happy. We are so happy for your and our joy.

We love you Wanda and Diego.

I wonder if, while playing in this movie, they had imagined that after 62 years someone like me, not yet born at that time, would have been laughing loud while having breakfast 7 AM in front of a TV watching them in this great performance.
I guess this is my favorite Totò movie, “I Tartassati” , with Him and Aldo Fabrizi.
Here, the entire movie and one of my favorite scenes on Youtube.

Lucio, Elton, Lou. They were all born in March. There must be something special about the way stars and planets align in this period of the year. So many gifted people born in March, themselves are gifts to the World. Happy birthday to you.

Weather is back to be cold, those couple of sunny and warm days in February were misleading, but enough to bring additional energy and joy and forward looking to summer days. Lately… few days on my own, spending some time outside with friends N. and D., walking around, watching spy movies, practicing Tai Chi in complete silence. And what’s also beautiful now is that my family is back home to me after one week spent in Herrenberg.

Understanding where you are heading is good. It’s about Flow, it’s about Resetting, it’s about Peace. The Tai Chi 24 form.

The temperatures are below zero since a couple of weeks here. The city is full of snow, I can’t remember such scenes in Berlin since my first year here in 2011. Last Saturday we had a nice time out at Obersee Park, frozen lake and kids having lot of fun.