Praise to the Earth

The passionate collection of declarations of love for the soil of the contemporary South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul-Han is explicit :” We have lost all the reverential fear towards the earth. We no longer see it, no longer hear it.” All ancient cultures revered a maternal deity of the soil. For the Greeks she was called Demeter, for the Romans Ceres, for the Incas the Quechua and for other Andean peoples she was Pachamama.

In the soil there is a cyclicity where the powerful and invisible magic happens, where everything begins and everything ends.

We must remind to protect and treat it well.

Saving beauty on the earth

Italian Opera Singing was recently added to the UNESCO ( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage List. Italian Opera developed in the early 600’s in Florence, at the court of the Medici family. UNESCO described Italian Opera as “a  physiologically controlled way of singing that enhances the carrying power of the voice in acoustic spaces as theatres and churches”.  It added that the art promoted “collective cohesion and sociocultural memory”, as well as being “a means of free expression and intergenarational dialogue”.

Libiamo nei lieti calici!

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Leonard Cohen