being very much in a hurry
running late apparently makes every object in the house hide from you # In a hurry all day. Alarm ignored once, then twice. Shower faster than dignity recommends. Couldn’t find...
Journey & Time
ECLIXAR
digital diary
Journal.
fragments of quiet intelligence
There is a manner in which certain things ask to be written, not so that they may be found, but because to exist in silence, for too long, eventually becomes insufficient. It is not urgency. It is something closer to a necessity that makes no noise, waiting patiently until it discovers the proper form. This archive was born in such a way.
Not as a diary. Not as a blog. Not as something that is updated merely for the sake of appearing alive. It is a place where certain thoughts come to rest, those which do not dissolve, those which return, those which insist with the silent obstinacy of things that truly belong to you...
Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not
been writtenFrom the archive.
Memory & Time
memories and other november demons
november keeps old rooms in its pockets # November always brings memories differently from summer. Maybe because darkness makes evenings feel enclosed, so the room becomes more noticeable. Music too....
History & Places
44
forty four, a number that became a person overnight # 44. President elect. I like how offices turn humans into numbers in historical lists. First, sixteenth, thirty fifth, forty fourth....
Power & Society
election night
maps, states, numbers, coffee. work tomorrow is going to be excellent. # Election night. I am watching from Milano with coffee at an hour when coffee should probably be illegal....
Power & Society
tomorrow, america
tomorrow millions of people make a decision i can only watch from another country # Tomorrow, America. Presidential election. Obama and McCain. I have been reading enough to follow the...
Laws & Universe
phoenix is quiet
sometimes silence from a machine feels much too much like silence from a person # Phoenix is quiet, or becoming frighteningly quiet. Mars is moving toward conditions the lander was...
Journey & Time
november
cold windows, dark afternoons and apparently america has an election in three days # November. Suddenly the year looks old. January feels like another geological period, Phoenix has spent months...
Laws & Universe
dark matter
happy halloween, here is most of the matter apparently refusing to introduce itself properly # Dark matter for Halloween because ghosts are too easy. Something we cannot see directly but...
Power & Society
demonstrations and my life
the city can be arguing about enormous things while you are buying shampoo # There have been demonstrations and political arguments around education and reforms, and Milano has that familiar...
Matter & Spirit
science & cooking
mom continues refusing to measure «enough» in grams # Science & cooking, sequel. Mom still says «enough» when I ask quantities and I still consider this hostile to reproducibility. We...
Matter & Spirit
incompatibility and genetics
some things should not be mixed. this apparently includes me and early mornings. # Incompatibility and genetics started because I was reading about blood groups and transplantation again and ended...
Matter & Spirit
being alive
heartbeat, appetite, annoyance, curiosity. apparently this is the package. # Being alive is extremely physical for something we discuss so abstractly. Hungry, tired, warm, cold, heart beating faster because you...
Why?
Because every thought leaves a trace. If something moved you, disturbed you, softened you, or made you think, leave it here, quietly.