"I am Darrel Standing. Very soon they will come to get me to hang me. In the meantime, in these pages I will express my opinion by writing about different times and places."
from the incipit of The Tramp of the Stars by Jack London
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While strolling the streets of Parma,mainly to test out my new Meike 50mm f/0.95 lens, I was drawn to this elegant bicycle with a beautiful colorful umbrella in its basket, parked right under an old sign painted on the wall—a sign I'd honestly never noticed, despite having passed by here hundreds of times.
We know how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
A return to what has always been... because the path to knowledge is a change of direction, a process of cleansing and subtraction, rather than a process of accumulation. A rediscovery and a rediscovery of oneself to reach the essence, an inner cleansing that symbolically begins also with the exterior, with clothing, roles, and personalities, a...
Among the many ways to travel, the one through suggestion is one of the most fascinating, and you don't have to go far, at least not physically...
In this extraordinary card we see the Sun represented and one of its supreme manifestations, that is, ourselves, since the human being is a creature of the Sun, it is an emanation of it, in particular its essence, that is, the soul, the divine essence.
A suggestive stretch of the Via Francigena in winter dress, between Cassio and Berceto.
If out there all the certainties and all the truths collapse miserably and inexorably, the only certainty and the only truth remain ourselves. Out there are only bewitching words and deceptions, tricks and pitfalls, little shows, flattery and poisoned apples.
A small stream between Romagna and Tuscany, wild enough to give you an adventure in the labyrinth of yourself
In these first rainy days of early September, summer, with its vivid colors, its intense lights and the scorching sun, already seem like a distant memory, yet it was just yesterday. Not even the time to sort out the shots taken in August, and we are already catapulted into autumn, time runs as they say, and the landscape runs with it....
"... it is evident that there is nothing to know, but only experiences to be had, fruits to be savored, bodies to be enjoyed, spirits to be perceived, lives to be loved. It is the dizzying understanding that life is an infinite process of self-generation. No Creator, but only the simple and interminable pulsation of a breath whose metamorphic...
DON'T BE DECEIVED, THE TRUTH IS WITHIN US!
While reading an interesting booklet on homo selvaticus I came across this phrase which particularly struck me and opened up a sea of questions: "...the cult of trees in places that were already sacred well before the advent of the new religion of the desert".
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