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I tell you now ...


I tell you now, prophetically and with a couple of months in advance, that Benjamin Button will win at least the Oscar for makeup and costumes.
And maybe even one for best director. And maybe
Cate Blanchett, one of my favorite actresses, she will win a statuette. Brad Pitt
But no, because with a rival such as Sean Penn's little to do. If you want
guesses at least the satisfaction of being able to assume a spocchiosetta and to be able to say "I told you so", or when I happen?

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Un altro Natale in California

A San Francisco tram is decorated with many of the party, few others seem to believe in Christmas.

A Caramel a beautiful holly grows in the courtyard of the English Mission: It is his chance to take revenge on the other eleven months of the year, when he feels terribly out of place.

A Disneyland si festeggia come si può, con una sfilata piena di principesse che non sanno cosa si perdono a non portare jeans e scarpe da ginnastica. Ma esisterà il Natale nel mondo di Cenerentola e Biancaneve?

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Questo spaventoso silenzio (spaventoso almeno per me, che di solito scrivo con una certa regolarità) è dovuto alla visita più aspettata e temuta dell'anno: quella dei miei genitori in California. Mio padre non era mai stato prima negli Stati Uniti, mentre mia madre aveva fatto un giro della East Coast... nel 1975! Aspettative e dubbi erano tanti. Come si comporteranno? Apprezzeranno la città in cui vivo? Come sopravviveranno al cibo alieno? Will they walk around alone even without speaking a word of English? Here are all the answers ...

Week 1: Lilly and Nick arrive at the airport all happy. The plane is late and the luggage went missing at Charles de Gaulle, but they do not care: challenge the jet lag! The first days are a whirlwind of culinary preparations for Thanksgiving that frustrate the will of shopping Lilly, but when the feast arrives everything goes smoothly. Italian friends with whom we see have a chat and play cards, while the father of Sterling merely smile and say "Grazzi! Grazzi!" when you pass a plate. The following weekend is tourism: the visit to wine country is appreciated by Nick anche se Lilly non beve un goccio, i leoni marini eseguono alla perfezione il loro solito show di puzza e rumore e dopo un pò di proteste Nick riesce a mangiare perfino un granchio (d'altronde siamo in stagione) e la famosa clam chowder in a bread bowl di San Francisco. Lilly scopre una passione per il pop-corn ricoperto di caramello che non la abbandonerà per il resto della vacanza. Nick comincia a guardare la TV senza l'audio, "tanto non capisco niente uguale". Io e Sterling ci guardiamo preoccupati e decidiamo che urge trovare un rimedio.
Livello di stress: 3. Per il momento andiamo bene.

Settimana 2: Io e Sterling scopriamo che Netflix è la migliore baby-sitter digitale che potessimo mai desiderare: Nick Lilly and strategically placed in front of an Italian film every night, and reduces us to work in the bedroom using the small TV to review the games. We also discover that our sofa EKTORP we miss dearly. Fortunately, along comes the weekend in Southern California, time to show Nick and Lilly the beautiful local scenery! Caramel was extremely successful, but not his food: Lilly does not want to taste even a harmless pea soup because "you never know the spices they put into it," while Nick refuses twelve salad is like saying that no one at home. The Big Sur proves too long for their patience, but to make a breakfast from IHOP and Disneyland are immensely appreciated. A Los Angeles wants Lilly see the villas of celebrities in Beverly Hills, while Sterling is ashamed to take her to death. Following Sterling's inner drama, but of course Lilly is the host and always wins. A Santa Barbara to meet Alessia I hope that I manage , companion blogs and long telephone calls which were planning to see us for a lifetime. I rebuke and Santa Barbara Lilly, and Nick feels "as if we were in California. That movie, however, not San Francisco."
stress level: 7. If there is a reason why I live in California and in Italy they begin to understand now ...

Week 3: I have to work, I have some urgent deliveries and so I can not go around with them all day. Nick and Lilly decided to explore on your own Chinatown, where it obviously will not touch the food, and North Beach, where they can find an immigrant originally from Scalea who knows a second cousin of my father who does the traffic policeman and that once the has saddled a fine. Small world. Lilly becomes a brave and taste of sushi roll, Nick tries to keep up but ends up carefully peel away all the seaweed with a knife and fork before eating rice. Lilly tries to take control of the house, especially the kitchen and rearrange as if it were his home. When I tell her to stop it offends me and makes a Neapolitan-style melodrama, in which Nick refuses to play the part of Mario Merola. The dramatized are repeated in the last days of the visit will be a sign that it's time to go home? Fortunately, a tram ride up and down the hills of San Francisco and one of the famous cupcake from Kara's Cupcakes are back at the moment the mood in the family. Nick accidentally tasted a leaf of cilantro and swears that it has closed forever with American food. The last day, after accompanying Lilly and Nick at the airport, Sterling and I go home with the sole desire to sleep. We wake up two or three days later, but it will take much longer to recover completely.
stress level: 9. We're almost to the limit, but the idea of \u200b\u200breturn to be only keeps us alive.

Moral of the story: I read the experiences of other Italians who have visited the parents in America and all are very positive. Now the possibilities that come to mind are two possibilities: either all have lied, or am I being a monster. I do not believe to be a monster, but I also believe that this huge geographical distance between me and my parents is not completely random. Even before moving to San Francisco I lived in Rome and went back to Salerno to visit them once a month or less. The distance has definitely improved my relationship with them, but even so the way to go there. For the moment I'm staying here, away from the family dynamics that made me lose my mind until a few years ago, then we'll see ...

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of the Magi the myth of Prometheus and Pandora


It is said that Prometheus, the son of the Titan Iapetus, modeled giving the man out of countenance similar to that of the gods: here stands the comparison with the spontaneous way in which God created Adam ... In addition to creating
Prometheus men wanted for their good and therefore, with the help of Minerva ( Athena), stole fire from the chariot of the sun and gave it to humanity. According to others, lit a torch from the fire that burned perpetually on Olympus, and others say they took it from the forge of Hephaestus (Vulcan). After giving fire to mankind, Prometheus taught them how to use it to build weapons to hunt and defend themselves with him learned to build houses, to shape vases and bowls.
When Zeus (Jupiter), he found that men became more and more progress, angry, punished Prometheus: bound him to a rock and every day an eagle ate his liver every night regrowth, so that punishment would be forever until when, one day, Hercules freed the Titan. A
Zeus, however, that revenge was not enough: he wanted to punish men.
Hephaestus molded her desire for a girl with clay and water: Athena gave her the breath of life.
Pandora was educated in the wiles and deceptions by Hermes (Mercury) and Aphrodite in the art of seduction, then, dressed in silver and crowned, went to the sight of Zeus.
Zeus gave her the gift of a box, never told her to keep it open for any reason (and here one thinks of Eva ... she did not have to take the tree of good and evil for no reason but ...) and proposes to marry Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus. He was not as wise as his brother and was flattered to marry the woman chosen for him by Zeus.
For some time the two lived happily (just as Adam and Eve in Eden), but one day, Pandora, tired and bored, while Epimetheus slept, overcome by curiosity and some to find some kind of wealth, he opened the casket.
Now, he unleashed all the evils that afflict humanity since then spreading everywhere. Pandora
desperately tried to quickly replace the box but it was too late. Zeus had taken revenge (as Lucifer, in the form of a serpent that tempts Eve ..)
The only thing that Pandora was able to lock in the casket was the hope with this humanity can since then to go on surviving pain diseases, and all sorts of adversity.
This mythological episode concludes that the poets call "'Golden Age." And in any case can be interpreted as an allegory fable that explains why so man must fight every day for his whole life against all kinds of adversity, however, aware that it can rely on the hope that in my opinion should never abandon .






Photos:
Laconian kylix with Prometheus and Atlas; manufactured in Sparta is a cup, attributed to the painter Archesilas II.
Cerveteri 560-550. BC Vatican Museums.
"Pandora" by John William Waterhouse.
"Adam and Eve" (detail) Peter Paul Rubens.

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"Paumgartner Nativity" by Albrecht Durer-1502/1503- preserved in the Alte Pinakothek of Monaco.
The triptych, known as "Paumgartner Altar," was commissioned by the children of Martin Paumgartner, for the church of Santa Katharina, in memory of his father who died in 1478.
In the central panel, the two sides at the bottom depicts the family of clients, left the father with two sons, Luca and Stefano, the man with the beard is the second husband of the widow Paumgartner, Hans Schonbach. To the right of the client's mother, Barbara Volckamer with her two daughters Mary and Barbara. In the two side tables
clients return in the guise of St. George (Tony) and S. Eustachio (Luke).
The painting is to be noted from the symbolic point of view, the ' donkey and ox .
There is a verse from Isaiah which reads " The ox knows his owner and the ass his master's crib, but Israel does not know my people do not understand " : from these words that theologians concluded that the ass of the Nativity is used as a symbol of Judaism and is opposed to the ox, a symbol of paganism. In
symbology however, the 'donkey lends itself to conflicting interpretations: it can indicate humility, obedience, simplicity, but because of his legendary stubbornness, also may have negative connotations and became a symbol of sloth, arrogance, stupidity and lust. When
is on his knees in front of a glass, is an attribute of St. Anthony of Padua.
The donkey is often depicted with Silenus, drunk, barely rests on the back of the animal.
In the myth of King Midas, plays a negative character: in fact, Apollo, to punish the impudence of the king who, during a contest between the god Pan, had spoken in favor of Pan, to grow the ears of an ass. The ox

mainly appears as beast of burden, fatigue.
was once considered a sacrificial animal, in place of the lamb, then a symbol of the sacrifice of Jesus
In the Middle Ages, is associated with the allegory of Patience.
iconography of the Nativity, the ox, near the donkey, may represent the New Testament as opposed to the Old Testament represented the ass.
The ox is also attribute of St. Augustine, who as a young man was called "quiet ox," and Saint Lucia, which was tied to a shot of oxen.

In this painting is worth noting also the angel in the sky: the ' Angelo, a symbol of the divine message, does it indicate that comes from the announcement of the birth of Christ to all men.

Mary appears kneeling: defining image that has been in the Renaissance, which is when the Adoration of the Child Jesus is the dominant motif in the iconography of the Nativity.

Joseph is always portrayed kneeling, but also the appearance of an old man, and this highlights the divine paternity of Christ.

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