TWIST AND LEARNING

  Today is my birthday. I guess this is the remembrance day also out of Italy. Of course in the whole world, it does not remember my birthday but the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp . So the week before my birthday all TV channels broadcast programs on the Shoah . I hate the word "holocaust", this word makes it seem like it's a spontaneous sacrifice and not planned extermination. Despite the sadness exerted by the vision of many TV programs, I arrive at this day with a light heart. A few years ago, I was always very sad on my birthday. Now no more, maybe the time passing, the years more... I do not know. Perhaps ( I do not sure when I have to use "maybe" or "perhaps" so I use both) watching people who suffered really much helps me to be not sad on my birthday. I have been in a boarding school for 6 to 13 years. When I was twelve or thirteen years old I read a lot of books. I read every book that I had found. Among those books, there were

For some weeks ago I suffer from sciatica. I can't go out to run, I can just drive my bike on the rollers. I have bought an electro stimulator and I use it every day. I must have a lot of patience. I cannot any else. I should at least go out to walk, but in this period of lockdown in fits and starts... red zone... orange zone... it is very depressing. I work from my home and I go out only to shopping at the supermarket with my wife. Oh yes, I can watch TV series, many TV series! These days when I drive my bike I watch Occupied , Midnight diner: Tokio stories , Glow , South Park and I wait for the new season of Disenchantment , Better call Saul , Stranger things , Bonding... I miss very much to go out for running, I like running realy so much! It is one of few things possibile in this period and I cannot to do! I signed up to the virtual Corsa di Miguel beacause my wife want the race shirt! I will not be able to run this virtual race either. But how says The Rolling Stones '

  I continue to study English, but with poor results. I wish to have more memory and I would not make the same mistakes over and over again. When I watch a series-tv in English without Italian subtitles I understand some words and even simple sentences. A few times I saw Super Monsters , a cartoon for children, that uses simple language, and I understand its dialogues almost perfectly. Unfortunately in the cartoon sometimes the caracters occasionally sing… And I hate the songs in the cartoons! Until a few years ago I hated all the songs in all the kind of movies. It is not the truth, when I was fifteen and I went to graphic school we student had to watch movies to design posters. I saw West side story and I loved it so much. Later I loved also Jesus Christ Superstar , The Blues Brother and Hair but not The Saturday night fever. Maybe I am getting stoned (you know the age...) but when I hear certain song in certain movies I can't hold back the tears. For example in The deer hunte