Everything's gonna be alright

"Everything gonna be alright"...quote from Dante or...Bob Marley?

Ciao a tutti, since my last post in January so many things have changed, and you know why, I don't need to explain it... Well, good news: I am still here, bad news: the world is shattered by so many losses that the pain is so hard to send away, and we will feel this pain for years or decades, even after it is all "resolved".

So who cares about getting or not a scholarship, postponing a trip, renouncing to a position... Life made it clear: what to care about is life itself, here and now, that means: your loved ones, your country, your planet, this spheric shaped place we call home. And all the people who inhabit it and make it special (almost always).

Well, I am still teaching French, but from home, and to the best students ever. I am still busy studying, but I am not leaving in the Fall for the US. My daughter is going to Canada in January and I'd love to go and see her next year. Last time I went there was...1997, so many years ago. I still cherish in my heart the memories of Niagara Falls and Toronto.
I was invited in France to a conference, but then of course it was cancelled. I applied for a conference in Ireland, but then it was postponed. I am learning Irish, though, and trying to understand Old English. I am reading Icelandic sagas and Medieval French literature. I am reviewing a journal issue on Italian literature and labour. In the meantime, if your level of Italian is intermediate/advanced, you can read this very informative article I found on the internet:

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