Let's start trying to explain the meaning of this blog, dedicated to the pursuit of beauty as a daily exercise in order to enrich our lives. The mention of anti-mafia hero Peppino Impastato seemed perfect to open our blog and guide us in each publication on this page:
"If you teach beauty to people, it would provide a weapon against the resignation, fear and silence. The existence of horrendous palaces arose suddenly, with all their squalor, speculative operations, you get ready with ease, the curtains at the Windows, the plants on the windowsill, and soon one forgets how were those places before, and every thing, merely because that is so, it seems to be so always and forever. That's why we need to educate people to the beauty: why men and women do not creep over the habit and the resignation but always remain alive curiosity and amazement. "
We must first of all pay tribute to this man, who despite being the son of the mafia had the courage to rebel and openly condemning abuses of power at the cost of his own life. But we don't have the presumption to address issues so high and for those wishing to delve into the story of Peppino Impastato refer to site maintained by fellow Peppino http://www.peppinoimpastato
We simply want to make real some of his precious words, because we are convinced that training to seek beauty is really a way to live better with .com/index.asp.ourselves and with others. Often the beauty isn't flashy, but he has more often than not the character of discretion and humility and is therefore more difficult to see, even when is close to us. For this, we must educate us, learn to seek and to see beauty even when it is not so obvious, then why will appear and it will tear a smile of wonder, as the appearance of a cloud in the room of a crumbling building like in poetics works of dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde.
Is this the feeling of astonishment that we seek and that, as Impastato sad, held alive in us curiosity and power to try the finer things in life, striving for the best, the one that gave him the courage to react to a world ruled by mafia — the opposite of resignation that our lives and the world around us must be as we know them.
The pursuit of beauty is a gift that we allow ourselves to be surprised by the wonderful things that life has to offer if we learn to look for.
(Berndnaut Smilde website:
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