The worst enemy of creativity is lack of self-confidence Meeting Benches is a fascinating concept that celebrates the importance of benches as places of meeting and reflection. Imagine a park or a square where benches become silent witnesses of chance encounters, deep conversations, love stories and moments of reflection. This project is a tribute to these public spaces that, despite …
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The importance of emotions and sensitivity in the relationship with art Meeting Benches is a website that celebrates art in all its forms. It functions as a virtual meeting and inspirational place, where travelers, artists, thinkers and dreamers from all over the world can share art, travel stories and thoughts. You will find a variety of content, including articles on …
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The Traveler’s Mind: From Gilgamesh to Global Tourism Meeting Benches is a website that celebrates art in all its forms. It serves as a virtual meeting place and inspiration, where travelers, artists, thinkers, and dreamers from all over the world can share art, travel stories, and thoughts. You will find a variety of content, including articles on emerging and established …
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Dwell outside of habits, while time passes The story behind the name Meeting Benches https://www.facebook.com/MeetingBenches/ is fascinating and full of meaning. Imagine a place, a park or a square, where the benches act as a meeting point for people. These benches become silent witnesses of chance encounters, deep conversations, love stories and moments of reflection. Meeting Benches is a tribute …
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The vanity behind appearance, a theme that accompanies us in everyday life The magic of bonfires, their dancing light and the warmth that envelops us remind us of the fleeting nature of life and the beauty of moments shared under the starry sky. Phrases, quotes and aphorisms revolve like sparks around the concept of the Bonfire of the Vanities. For …
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The miracle of a hug No one is too old for a hug. Everyone wants a hug. Everyone needs a hug. We are angels with only one wing and we can only fly by staying hugged. The world is not understandable, but it is embraceable. The Embrace www.ilpensieromediterraneo.it, a novel by Ernesto Masina, instead addresses the theme of latent chauvinism …
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Carmen Boullosa and love through the centuries Among her poems, “The embrace of the earth”: Embrace of the earth, certainty of what the mountain says, secret made voice, silence is your cuneiform breath, the calligraphy of the gods is your smell and your body thirsty for love. Alma Guillermoprieto, Roberto Bolaño and Elena Poniatowska are among the writers who appreciated …
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A handful of writers in search of the impossible For Plato it was the search for the ultimate truth, but there are also those who consider it as the science of being qua being, the search for the first cause of things or the investigation of the real qua real. There is no definitive answer to the questions posed by …
Read More »THE LOOK THAT PLACES ON MADNESS, MANIE AND DEVIATIONS – Guadalupe Nettel and the sharpness of referring us to our own obsessions
Between destiny and free will, collecting what we have to live The body in which I was born, https://www.amazon.it/Body-Where-Was-Born/dp/1609807510 is a book in which Guadalupe Nettel https://www.elle.com/it/magazine/libri/a39329227/guadalupe-nettel-libri/ relives with the mind a succession of events inherent to her own youth, between Mexico and France, confronting some utopias of the 70s. In the pages of this novel by her, perhaps you …
Read More »CREATION, RESEARCH AND LITERARY PERFORMANCE – Marie-Claire Blais, a staunch Francophonist activist
The writer who explored violence, revolt and hatred Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blais https://www.writerstrust.com/authors/marie-claire-blais/ died at her home in Key West on a November day in 2021, yet, she was a native of Quebec, where she was encouraged to write at the Université Laval. In 1959, she published her first novel, La Belle bête https://www.amazon.it/Joualonais-sa-Joualonie-Marie-Claire-Blais/dp/2890524094, appreciated by critics, despite the roughness …
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