Once upon a time…Rosolio Candy🍬😋

What’s your favorite candy?

There was, once upon a time, near my house, in Milan, the Eusebio pastry shop; sometimes on Sunday morning, with my parents I went to buy a cake and meanwhile they looked for a cake to buy, I remained enchanted by small sugar candies, closed in glass vases, which seemed like baubles of glasses, like those it find on the beach, corroded by the sea. Promptly I went back home with, in my hands, a little paper bag, my treasure.

At home, as a ritual, the candies were putted in centre of the low table, in living room, in one of decorated bowls of my mom and the pure gold of the bowl, stood out the delicacy of their colors.

From that moment, walking around it I took one, then another and another…putted them in mouth, was impossible don’t break those candies with the teeth, they had, a thin delicate sugar shell, and I seem to remember that flowery taste mixed the sweet of sugar in my mouth, was given from its content, the Rosolio, a liquor from the Renaissance Italy.

In a moment, the candies in my mouth, disappeared, and they were really good.🍬😋

A break will be a good idea😀

Do you need a break? From what

Sometimes I’m tired. This life made of always new situations good and bad, places, thoughts, hopes and disappointments, is like a river in flood… I jumped in once and now I can’t get out, I ‘m swimming with the current, sometimes, with philosophy l let myself be carried away, waiting for a rock to attach and relax me a bit.

Facts of life are endurance tests, and, every time I’m not complaining, I passed them, this is hard for me😉, but I try.

Are two years we’re living in motorhome. The last year we stay at our chalet in mountain , a little less than a month. This year, we will do surely new things,we are already organising to make fitness in camping and, there will be satisfactions, so go back to the mountains, it will mean break from our routine.

Digital technology

The most important invention in your lifetime is…

Digital technology , in my lifetime is been the most important invention.

It opened the doors of a new industrial era, as such, transforming completely people life.

Digital used the idea and the tools of old communication systems, modifying and amplifying the result…today thanks to this technology, the world is closer.

Like any invention, could be used for bad purpose or already it’s used🤔. Nowadays could we stay without internet? Oh yes, and the life would be more simply, but It would be a shame not to feed man’s need for knowledge.

Digital technology used well is a great gift of our intelligence to improve the quality of life.

A day in equilibrium

Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.

Wake up at 8.30am, I make my energetic exercise and very slowly the breakfast starts: some fruit, oat, coffee, butter, marmalade…often I change the breakfast menu.

When I’m ready, I go out, walking along the Adda river, when we’re in Trezzo d’Adda or simply in a green hill like now; the best is -before walking- make a fast fitness training with my “personal”Fiore.

For the rest of the day, the ideal for me is, in the early hours of the afternoon create my jewels, one per day is sufficient…two better😄 and then, music, a cup of tea and writing.

In the evening, if I were still in Milan, I would like to go out, to see people, lights, shops, to distract me from my thoughts.

In the night, a good dinner, a cup of wine🍷🍷, with my husband listening blues and jazz Portuguese radio broadcast and the top would be a movie, one of those, that give a good mood, but for this, I think I have to wait to return to Italy, unfortunately I have few GB for internet.

This, for me it means having a day in equilibrium between job, activities, relax…a shame that is not always like this, but I’m working on it.😉.

A confidence injection💉

What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?

When I have to do something for me very important, sometimes I tend to delay it, for fear of not being able to achieve it.

I scared to do it because, I think, for that situation, I don’t feel me strong enough. More the interest is important, and more long are the activation times… I have always an excuse < I don’t have the time now…I’ll do it tomorrow> < I have to prepare, I have to get better.>

Maybe, it’s an unconscious excuse to avoid testing myself. I’m afraid it’s a failure or doing a speech more deeply, I can say that realizing what I care about a lot, my dream would end😱.

However, a confidence injection per day, I think is the right solution.😄 Tomorrow I’m going to the doctor, to get a prescription😁.

I admit, I’m a complainer

What do you complain about the most?

I admit, I’m a complainer.

There are days I complain about everything, to the point of not remembering what I’m complaining about.😁

Maybe, this happens when it’s full moon…and I feel like a werewolf?

My favourite victim is Fiore, my husband…generally the theme is the house that doesn’t tidy up well and if he touches the right button the story goes on a whole day.

Then…

In the motorhome,the tight space can make us nervous, so it’s easy complain of something, and when arrives the moment to go shopping, oh no, I don’t like! <Go alone, but buy all we need>.

Complains for the time never enough to do everything, complains for something that went wrong, for the weather not much, but, you know, that a complain calls another, so, it’s possible complains for nothing!

Fortunately, writing songs helps me keep quiet…my thoughts are more pleasant in song form and, at the end I always say what I’m thinking, however, on this, I still have to work on it some more.

And you never complain?

Artistic ice skating

What are your favorite sports to watch and play?

It’s a long time since I went ice skating. I learned in “Zambla Alta”, in a small skating ring, then I really liked going to the ice rink, in Milan, on Saturday afternoon, this for all my adolescence.

I made ice skating not artistic, but I was enough good.

Now, at my home, in camping,and too here in Portugal, there are ice rinks, but are almost always for children not sufficient big for adults and… I’m still able?, I’m older, but I think that ice skating is like ” going with bicycle” one time is learned it doesn’t forget more😄… But pay attention about falling!🤕

Ice skating, for me, is to play and to watch

Holidays on ice, beautiful show, I’ve seen it, more than once, it’s technique and fantasy together, surely, to go and see it. After seeing it, ice skating remains in the heart. Watch it on tv, isn’t like live, but is however captivating, in it’s being both dynamic and romantic.

Lucky numbers

What would you do if you won the lottery?

it was a winter morning like others, cold and asleep; I didn’t feel like getting up.Out the door there was the fog, who wanted to go to work?

With my eyes closed I arrived in the kitchen, a quick coffee and then, off we go! The train didn’t waiting for me. There was a short stretch of road to get to the train station and my autobianchi still had good pickup.Door at my shoulders and in ten minutes I was already on the train.

The moving train with the chatter of commuters put me to sleep. My head was falling, some words, as “lottery” reached my ears and in that half-asleep I didn’t know if they were real.Vicenza, Vicenza station!, <oh, I’m arrived.>

I went into a bar and I bought one lottery ticket, who was talking about it? This year, the befana instead of coal, will fill my sock with money. I put the ticket in the purse and I went to work.

January 6th. On television we’re talking about the lottery; the extraction had already been done; I took the ticket from the purse and, <oh my god…I am the winner, my numbers are those lucky one.>

Now? What to do?

I communicated publicly to be the winner and I started helping people in difficulty.

But, the requests became more and more pressing and people came at the house…. One morning I found a river of people in front of my door.Impossible go out! Then a voice: <excuse, are you coming down?> <Well, who, what? where am I?>My eyes opened instantly, < I have to go down!> I made space among the people and right after getting off from the train, I put my hand in the purse to look for the lottery ticket. < But, where is it? Oh, I didn’t buy it. It was just a dream.>… Luckily.😉

And, the lucky numbers? If I’ll remember, I’ll play at the super-jackpot lottery😄.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

What books do you want to read?
” you have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way”.
( Jonathan Livingston Seagull,Richard Bach)

One of the best reads is “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”, written by Richard Bach.

I’ve read this beautiful story more than one time and is always true…it feels me, every time, an indispensable piece of universe and it gives me also the idea to be able to do what I want, by overcoming everything.

The words and the thoughts that hover in the air together with Jonathan are energy of life, which in my opinion, each of us should breath, to load, and to be more aware of ourselves, especially now, that the freedom to be oneself is in danger.

I love fly high and my way.