December is the darkest and quietest month of the year. Winter spends its final days in silence, guarding the seeds of the many summer and autumn fruits, waiting for the light to slowly make them germinate, restoring them to a thousand lives.Giuseppe Ungaretti writes: “Like a seed, my soul also […]
Anna Lacci
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We are in the second-to-last month of the year, and the increasingly shorter days, made even more noticeable by the switch from summer to winter time and the arrival of autumn rains, make us long for a spot by the fireplace, perhaps with a pan full of chestnuts, their skins […]
“In autumn, the sun and all objects seem to be of a different color, the clouds of another shape, the air of another flavour. It seems absolutely as if all nature has a tone, a look, all its own, of this season, more distinct and marked than in other seasons. […]
“A bee has 960,000 neurons in its brainstem. With this limited number of neurons, it can perform cognitive feats such as learning to distinguish Monet paintings from Picasso paintings, and then instantly recognize new works by Monet and Picasso that have never been seen before. With its 960,000 neurons, the […]
September is the month when many of the flowers that brightened spring transform into colorful and nutritious fruits for wildlife preparing to endure the winter cold with a “blanket” of thick subcutaneous fat. This is the time when the fruits of two very well-known species ripen: the pear and the […]