In autumn, training activities resume: schools, universities, and professional institutes reopen after a period of enormous difficulties. The pandemic has induced great transformations in behavior, teaching methods, and methodologies, in educational approaches. How to face the change? In a context so profoundly changed that it has created dismay, anxieties, frustrations, […]
Maria Beatrice Lupi
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“But when we reached the land that was nearby, there we saw near the sea a cavern that opened at the highest point, covered with laurels …” (Homer, Odyssey, IX, 181-183) Intensely scented and held in great esteem since ancient times, the Laurel (Laurus nobilis L. 1753) also called Lauro, […]
We all own a smartphone, it has now become almost an extension of our body. Impossible not to have it: it avoids the queues in the offices, allows us to communicate with the institutions, helps us to see our distant loved ones, but … to some extent we have become […]
May cherries It is May, a basket full of cherries reigns on our table. That’s impossible to resist, in the blink of an eye we’ll eat a lot! If we do not get indigestion, there is no need to worry. As well as being delicious, cherries have numerous beneficial properties. […]
“You must first reach the Sirens near you,that all men enchant who come to them.Whoever approaches them, unwillingly, and listens to the voice of the Sirens, that never his wife and children any more they will see him return, they will never have any more delightbut the Sirens, enchant them […]
Once again the sea, the mother and matrix of our existences, fascinates and involves us, taking us by the hand, to let us know its mysterious creatures that ask us only for respect. Our monthly appointment this time is aimed above all at children and teenagers; for them, we have […]
The sea, for all living beings on the planet, is the mother, the origin of life. For us human beings it also represents much more: the challenge with nature, the challenge with ourselves.For this month, I have chosen two classics that you may have already read, but that you will […]
“Capperi!” (Capers! In English: Wow!) Never was an expression of pleasant surprise and wonder more appropriate, as was the amazement aroused by the magnificence and elegance of the caper in bloom.The caper (Capparis spinosa L. 1753) belongs to the Capparaceae family.It is a typically Mediterranean plant, present in the central-southern […]
…. “It rains on the brackish and burnt tamarisksit rains on the pinesit rains on the divine myrtles ……. ”And the pinehas a sound and myrtleother sound and junipermore, different toolsunder countless fingers “(Gabriele d’Annunzio, The rain in the pine grove, 1902) In arid and sunny Mediterranean summers, the thirsty […]
The almond tree has always accompanied the journey and history of man who, over the centuries, has given it highly symbolic meanings of hope and constancy, of birth and resurrection; it symbolizes the renewal of nature after winter death. The esoteric meaning is linked to the fruit: the almond represents […]