Hands

Hands
Originally uploaded by margiana.

... hands shaking, clean, dirty, wounded, sensitive hands.... cold and warm hands... united, slender, stubby, horny hands... left and right hands, clapping hands, hand in hand, hands up, hands off... lots of hands. I like hands!
I am happy hand in hand with my soul mate:-)

Thanksgiving!

We ate everything you did... turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, corn, green beans, pecan pie and pumpkin pie... but above all... we also had the time to remember to count our 'blessings' and to be thankful for everything we have and don't have.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Giving my blood away!

I finally did it. I woke up early, Patty my friend picked me up and we both went to the laboratory. I passed the visits and finally I donated my blood.

The blood they took me is going to go to the neonatal intensive care unit. I feel good!

Back to the full-time job!

Is it relax or what?
Originally uploaded by margiana.

This picture represents well what this last month has been for me: relax, total abandon to the pleasure of home and 'family' life, sleep and read and cook...
From december I'll get back to the full-time.
I am happy, since I really need extra money but I still think that we should do something so that in the whole world, everybody could work and then work part-time. It gives you extra energy and extra time. I am sure we'll all have less personal problems and the society will be more just! I know the French understood everything. They work 35 hours a week and they show that this is a possible system!But other than those statements, I can tell you I feel good. The house is clean, the refrigerator is crowded with healthy dishes, the cat is recovering and right now purrs over the turkish carpet. I am listening to the best free radio in town and drinking my mint infusion. What can I ask for? Somebody wants to iron the pile of clothes I am hiding under the bed?

Smile!

Smile!
Originally uploaded by margiana.

You are probably used to read me grumble about everything, from politics to personal complaints... but now you have to know that I feel
TOTALLY HAPPY!
Yes you read it right: TOTALLY HAPPY.... TOTALLY AND FULLY AND GREATLY HAPPY!
I don't know how to explain this but I am HAPPY, I'm afraid to have an HAPPINESS DISEASE. I am uncontrollably happy.
It's like if this permanent contract uncorked me. And now all the extra energies are flowing out. I smile, from the morning to the night... everybody who's next to me is infected by my happy virus...
I don't know what it is. I'd love to control it, to contain... but the smile-grimace is uncontrollable... it starts from the 2 sides and it stretches the mouth from ear to ear.
I feel free... free with not enough money but free... I feel free to go on vacation, to call me sick at work, to think of what I'd love to buy, do and say.
Free to be happy.
I don't know how long it will last. But I want you to know that I am Happy.
So, if tomorrow I will die...or when I will... then you know that I have been clearly, purely, HAPPY... and you will be happy for me!

I still wisper Monocolo is getting better and better :-)

Sicko

I just finished to watch this movie and I have been reminded of how lucky I am to live in this sick country!

Sometimes, what we need in order to easy our anxieties and frustrations, is simply look at the neighbour's grass and see that our is greener!

Other than this statement, I don't feel particularly happy to know that in a so-called-democratic country like the US, it's so difficult to get cures for the sicks.

I think this is a worth to watch movie!

About this topic... my Monocolo appear to be recovering.... (ashhhhh ashhhh don't say it too loud!)

FALLing into you...

FALLing into you...
Originally uploaded by margiana.

Today's windy.
I should rack those leaves... but I am hypnotized by their moves...
... a cup of wild berries infusion, an homemade blueberry muffin, the cat in the basket, the good Radio Città del Capo playing.. and me watching the leaves go by.... feel the Fall...

Colours...

I wake up and watch outside... in the backyard the Parthenocissus quinquefolia is now changing colour everyday. Every single leaf has a different nuance of red, brown and orange. In the middle of the wall the green-yellowish leaves of the wisteria keep on climbing around. The green grass is now hidden by the foliage. I prepare my dark wildberries infusion and drink it in front of the window looking out at the coloured cherry tree. I get caught by the blues...
Monocolo sneezes and my heart squeezes.
I take out the quilt Julie gave us as a wedding gift... it's coloured!
Fall must be colourful in order to prepare us to live the grey winter...
I feel in one of those moments in which I have to order the mess of colours inside of me so to create more space for others to get in... The world is coloured and to live is beautiful.

It's a free world... (the movie)

My life is coming out a lot lighter in those days.... Yesterday for example we woke up late, indulged in bed for long, had lunch together and at 3.30pm I went to work. At 8.15 I was already back home, had a piadina in our favourite piadina-place and then went to the cinema to watch the last Ken Loach's movie: It's a free world...
For those of you who don't know Ken Loach or never watched his movies, it may be a little harsh... but if you already watched Bread and Roses (one of my favourite movie), The Navigators, and some other of his movies you can get to the point quite easily.
The realism in which the story grows give the movie extra power.
Angie (Kierston Wareing) is a women in the her prime who is full of energy and ambition. She has been through a lot of different jobs in the past and difficulties but now she want to show what she is worth and needs to keep her life in her hands. This is the moment! Together with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis), Angie decides to start a recruiting agency.
It's a free world... it's a story about the modern English reality, characterized by the "miracle" of the flexible work, globalization, double shifts and by lots of happy consumer: us, who take advantage of the illegal immigration and of the poverty of a lot of persons.
The movie is all by Angie's point of view, and it doesn't give a solution... Loach just put the problem on a table and there it is...
It may be because I work with immigrants and poor persons or because I feel I am a victim (on a lighter note) of the flexible work but this movie get to a point that is central to nowadays society and should be surpassed!