<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080</id><updated>2012-02-05T01:11:33.163-08:00</updated><category term='Great Dixter'/><category term='dan pearson'/><category term='wildlife gardening'/><category term='the way of trees'/><category term='lupinus'/><category term='stagno'/><category term='giardino'/><category term='terrace'/><category term='clematis vitalba'/><category term='ecovillage Findhorn'/><category term='garden'/><category term='la via del giardino'/><category term='lambro'/><category term='prati'/><category term='garden philosophy'/><category term='fiume'/><category term='english gardens'/><category term='alberi'/><category term='tree-climbing'/><category term='flow form fountain'/><category term='allium schoenoprasum'/><category term='il respiro di Gaia'/><category term='trees'/><category term='spring'/><category term='the garden way'/><category term='terrazzo'/><category term='the way of movies'/><category term='graminacee'/><category term='la via degli alberi'/><category term='the breath of Gaia'/><category term='autobiografia'/><category term='arte di guarire la terra'/><category term='allium globe master'/><category term='mandala'/><category term='self-biography'/><category term='ornamental grasses'/><category term='ecologia profonda'/><category term='london'/><category term='ecosophy'/><category term='roof garden'/><category term='tree hugs'/><category term='potted garden'/><category term='silence'/><category term='earth healing'/><category term='la via dei film'/><category term='vision'/><category term='la Via del Teatro'/><category term='deep gardening'/><category term='the way of books'/><category term='gardens to feel'/><category term='new perennials'/><category term='ulmus hollandica'/><category term='piet oudolf'/><category term='meadows'/><category term='fiori'/><category term='giardinaggio profondo'/><category term='native plants'/><category term='river'/><category term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category term='pond'/><category term='il viaggio dell&apos;eroe'/><category term='tappeto erboso'/><category term='primavera'/><category term='buxus'/><category term='vision quest'/><category term='hero&apos;s journey'/><category term='linaria vulgaris'/><category term='la Via del Guerriero'/><category term='la via delle parole'/><category term='phyto-resonance'/><category term='la via dei fiori'/><category term='paths'/><category term='giardini da sentire'/><category term='private garden'/><category term='deep ecology'/><category term='mito-botanica'/><category term='the magic of places'/><category term='gardening'/><category term='lawns'/><category term='the Way of the Warrior'/><category term='urban nature'/><category term='giardinaggio'/><category term='fountain'/><category term='la via dei libri'/><category term='flowers'/><category term='natura urbana'/><category term='the way of flowers'/><category term='ecosofia'/><category term='community gardens'/><category term='the way of words'/><category term='silenzio'/><category term='wildlife'/><title type='text'>abbraccio d'albero</title><subtitle type='html'>The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are (J. Campbell)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>73</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-2876243304483290507</id><published>2011-11-29T16:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T10:53:12.276-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vision'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urban nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wildlife gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silenzio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio profondo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vision quest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graminacee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='natura urbana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meadows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prati'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deep gardening'/><title type='text'>a scuola dalla natura</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="149" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yMWdVqFQmiM/TtVx77amrRI/AAAAAAAAAmA/0Qmu8hrpLIE/s200/erbe2.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;sovente trovo una più articolata bellezza - sotto forma di armonie e contrasti di colori e forme e consistenza di petali e foglie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1xiZssj84zM/TtVyQT5ZYMI/AAAAAAAAAmI/SOGnM0lLsSA/s1600/erbe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1xiZssj84zM/TtVyQT5ZYMI/AAAAAAAAAmI/SOGnM0lLsSA/s200/erbe.jpg" width="149" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;scopro una maggiore ricchezza - come numero e varietà di specie che si succedono nel tempo e nello spazio...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mi stupisco di un più raffinato e squisito piacere - derivante da accostamenti inaspettati e sorprendenti...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ecco, mi rendo conto di tutto questo fermento e avvicendarsi di vita in un terreno marginale, una scarpata, un'aiuola dimenticata in cui ci si limita a pochi sfalci d'erba all'anno, il minimo perché non si inselvatichisca del tutto, che nel più viziato e coccolato di quei giardini mantenuti in perfetto ordine per essere sempre &lt;i&gt;presentabili&lt;/i&gt;, come se sempre dovesse arrivare la suocera da un momento all'altro!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hKoJi4jC-n8/TtVyaFaD2-I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/GUNS5R6S22U/s1600/erbe1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hKoJi4jC-n8/TtVyaFaD2-I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/GUNS5R6S22U/s200/erbe1.jpg" width="149" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ebbene, progettisti del verde, giardinieri e appassionati di piante, accorrete: venite a imparare  la bellezza &amp;nbsp;da un pezzo di terra che sia lasciato libero di esprimersi ogni tanto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;allo stesso modo, scopro un calore e un guizzo di autenticità, la spontaneità di un sorriso, la sfrontatezza della verità e talora l'impagabile malinconia di uno sguardo in quanti si trovano a vivere, per scelta, ai margini della società. dis-adattati, conformi soltanto a se stessi, coraggiosi, gagliardi. con qualche spina sì, da stare attenti, ma che freschezza!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-2876243304483290507?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/2876243304483290507/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/lezione-dalla-natura.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2876243304483290507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2876243304483290507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/lezione-dalla-natura.html' title='a scuola dalla natura'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yMWdVqFQmiM/TtVx77amrRI/AAAAAAAAAmA/0Qmu8hrpLIE/s72-c/erbe2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-4801200157008142516</id><published>2011-11-13T14:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T14:53:25.517-08:00</updated><title type='text'>natura urbana</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4PjjvGGdhg/TsBJ6CqoFmI/AAAAAAAAAlo/3ttGKpLA7Nw/s1600/Terrace+Aut+2010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="279" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4PjjvGGdhg/TsBJ6CqoFmI/AAAAAAAAAlo/3ttGKpLA7Nw/s320/Terrace+Aut+2010.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Anche sul mio terrazzo è arrivato l'autunno e con le foglie se vanno anche gli ultimi fiori.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-4801200157008142516?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/4801200157008142516/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/natura-urbana.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4801200157008142516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4801200157008142516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/natura-urbana.html' title='natura urbana'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4PjjvGGdhg/TsBJ6CqoFmI/AAAAAAAAAlo/3ttGKpLA7Nw/s72-c/Terrace+Aut+2010.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-7832671689415981264</id><published>2011-11-13T12:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T10:19:25.442-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urban nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='natura urbana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mito-botanica'/><title type='text'>punti di vista</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pjZpQ48RzUI/TsAjlYPGSRI/AAAAAAAAAlI/wTJlwGlmWPY/s1600/nature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pjZpQ48RzUI/TsAjlYPGSRI/AAAAAAAAAlI/wTJlwGlmWPY/s320/nature.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Davanti alla New Tate Gallery di Londra, sulle sponde del fiume Tamigi, hanno piantato un boschetto di betulle. Passavo di lì una sera di primavera di qualche anno fa quando vidi questa ragazza seduta lì al tramonto. Ho associato questa immagine all'intervista a un'antropologa che ha girato il mondo studiando popoli diversi da noi, popoli che vivono il mondo in maniera diversa da noi. A un certo punto dice...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Gli &amp;nbsp;chiedo di raccontarmi le loro storie, le fiabe che arricchiscono la loro vita. C'è spesso una strega, un principe e una bella ragazza - non sempre però finiscono, come da noi, con un matrimonio e vissero felici e contenti per il resto dei loro giorni. In Laos, per esempio, la ragazza muore alla fine e si trasforma in un albero frondoso, per dire, o in un pesce. Un po' sono triste per la ragazza e gli dico - peccato, però, che la ragazza non sposi il suo principe...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allora mi guardano stupiti - come, non capisci? si trasforma in un pesce tutto pieno di colori!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-He_yeORYGiE/TsFblKhldHI/AAAAAAAAAl4/jasaABKuFA8/s1600/pesce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-He_yeORYGiE/TsFblKhldHI/AAAAAAAAAl4/jasaABKuFA8/s320/pesce.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-7832671689415981264?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/7832671689415981264/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/punti-di-vista.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7832671689415981264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7832671689415981264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/punti-di-vista.html' title='punti di vista'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pjZpQ48RzUI/TsAjlYPGSRI/AAAAAAAAAlI/wTJlwGlmWPY/s72-c/nature.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-3595801089379598816</id><published>2011-11-13T11:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T23:22:21.154-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new perennials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community gardens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piet oudolf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><title type='text'>un pomeriggio di tarda estate, un giardino</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Ci sono giardini che aspiriamo a visitare dal primo giorno in cui apprendiamo della loro esistenza. Si imprimono nella lista delle nostre aspirazioni turistico botaniche e lavorano di sottecchi, riapparendo nelle nostre letture, sugli schermi dei nostri computer e nella nostra mente, alcuni ce li sognamo anche! fino a quando non arrivano in cima e "dobbiamo" visitarli. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Il giardino di Piet Oudolf è in qualche misura uno di questi luoghi per me e a settembre quest'anno ho avuto l'occasione di recarmi a Hummelo per visitarlo. Immancabilmente laddove si crea una forte aspettativa è alto il rischio di delusioni. E in effetti mi aspettavo la perfezione. Sono contento di aver trovato un giardino.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xnWJ2vuYOD0/TsAYRbSBBPI/AAAAAAAAAkY/ZQoUxmO-MDY/s1600/OU+parterre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="149" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lJMGd0wxoeo/TsAavtReobI/AAAAAAAAAkg/8ht__FBLeTo/s200/OU+parterre.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La storia del giardino è ben documentata dal suo stesso autore che ne ha fatto un campo di prova, un laboratorio per sperimentare le soluzioni e le piante che via via andava testando per le sue creazioni, e anche un vivaio per un certo periodo, per allevare in proprio, verificare le caratteristiche, attitudini ed esigenze, di un'intera gamma di piante precedentemente poco usata all'interno dei giardini. In diversi dei suoi libri vediamo immagini del giardino appena piantato e via via più maturo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PayFBZCz0Z8/TsFYocAC5TI/AAAAAAAAAlw/g0ZUsbbhGB4/s1600/OU+sipario.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="149" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PayFBZCz0Z8/TsFYocAC5TI/AAAAAAAAAlw/g0ZUsbbhGB4/s200/OU+sipario.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Laddove inizialmente, nel grande parterre che costituisce il pezzo forte del giardino a sud dell'abitazione, un largo spazio era ancora lasciato a tappeto erboso e la "composizione" era cadenzata da totem di tasso topiati in forma di cilindri, e le "nuove perenni" - le specie che Oudolf ha portato alla ribalta in giardino e per le quali è giustamente famoso - facevano la loro comparsa rimanendo confinate sui bordi e affacciandosi, per così dire, al giardino spalleggiate dalle siepi perimetrali, oggi tutto lo spazio a disposizione è occupato da questa distesa di erbe che montano spumeggianti e si distendono, si ritirano e investono a ondate il visitatore nel tentativo di avvincerlo anche fisicamente e conquistarlo così alla loro esuberante e rustica bellezza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T1d1BnTYk7A/TsAbRDmZIrI/AAAAAAAAAko/SU7RfZ3oDrw/s1600/OU+quinte.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="148" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T1d1BnTYk7A/TsAbRDmZIrI/AAAAAAAAAko/SU7RfZ3oDrw/s200/OU+quinte.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Fa da contrappunto a questa zona la parte più prossima all'abitazione, in cui è il vuoto a farla da padrone. Un tappeto erboso occupa esesamente lo spazio accortamente suddiviso in senso diagonale da un vialetto in beole che ha per meta diverse formazioni "geometriche" molto ben definite di tasso e altre erbe dalla forte struttura.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PLedZimM-Ns/TsAbVawjYqI/AAAAAAAAAkw/I8h2dSxQ51Y/s1600/OU+cilindro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="148" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PLedZimM-Ns/TsAbVawjYqI/AAAAAAAAAkw/I8h2dSxQ51Y/s200/OU+cilindro.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Un tunnel di carpino e siepi di tasso suddividono ulteriomente lo spazio connettendo, introducendo, occultando le diverse parti del giardino accessibili da qui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3gd7vClWXNE/TsAbs3BbXVI/AAAAAAAAAk4/m09s6-sVWlY/s1600/OU+pero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3gd7vClWXNE/TsAbs3BbXVI/AAAAAAAAAk4/m09s6-sVWlY/s200/OU+pero.jpg" width="149" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Alcuni alberi, un pero vetusto, danno slencio verticale alla composizione. Le "nuove perenni", in questo caso, sono rimaste entro i confini delle bordure, per quanto comincino a starci un po' strette. Sia qui che nel grande parterre, l'impressione è che ci sia bisogno di intervenire con un bel diradamento. E' illusorio pensare che esista un giardino, per quanto siano rustiche e ben adattate le piante che impiego, che non abbia bisogno di una certa manutenzione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sh0NgRXCjyo/TsAcaQZ8CGI/AAAAAAAAAlA/0rXVFUcR-8I/s1600/OU+new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="149" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sh0NgRXCjyo/TsAcaQZ8CGI/AAAAAAAAAlA/0rXVFUcR-8I/s200/OU+new.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Diversa la situazione della zona a nord dell'abitazione dove un tempo si trovava il vivaio degli Oudolf è oggi ospita lo studio del paesaggista. Anche qui il giardino è definito da un sistema ben delineato di siepi e muri che fanno da quinte e schermi e offrono il giusto contenimento a un prato dal sapore spontaneo e ancora fresco di &amp;nbsp;realizzazione. Oltre le siepi i campi e mandrie di placide frisone al pascolo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-3595801089379598816?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/3595801089379598816/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/il-giardino-dautunno.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3595801089379598816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3595801089379598816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/il-giardino-dautunno.html' title='un pomeriggio di tarda estate, un giardino'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lJMGd0wxoeo/TsAavtReobI/AAAAAAAAAkg/8ht__FBLeTo/s72-c/OU+parterre.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-3053976889258363338</id><published>2011-11-03T17:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T23:17:42.443-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ornamental grasses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new perennials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graminacee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piet oudolf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><title type='text'>il giardino prateria di Piet Oudolf</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XzYlyq-FrAM/TrMq82y_QCI/AAAAAAAAAjw/QTMcQzV_9FQ/s1600/PO2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XzYlyq-FrAM/TrMq82y_QCI/AAAAAAAAAjw/QTMcQzV_9FQ/s200/PO2.jpg" width="149" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Negli ultimi vent'anni Piet Oudolf è stato il motore e promotore di una rivoluzione in giardino, proprio come agli inizi del secolo scorso Gertrude Jeckyll.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Entrambi hanno dato il loro contributo per rivedere, revisionare l'idea di bellezza e ordine all'interno del giardino. Entrambi hanno testato, sperimentato e selezionato un'intera gamma di "nuove" piante atte a trasportare in giardino la magia e la suggestione delle consociazioni naturali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Un pomeriggio di tarda estate a Hummelo, quest'anno, mi ha dato l'occasione di aggirarmi stupito in mezzo a questo capolavoro vivente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-viq5Sr2yyYk/TrMrAQSnyfI/AAAAAAAAAj4/2SLmsTaBFGM/s1600/PO1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-viq5Sr2yyYk/TrMrAQSnyfI/AAAAAAAAAj4/2SLmsTaBFGM/s200/PO1.jpg" width="149" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Un arazzo fatto di così tante specie diverse raggruppate in masse generose e tanto sapientemente combinate fra loro, per varietà di forme e colori, da darti l'impressione di un'unica grande coperta distesa per l'intera superficie del giardino, una soffice trapunta rimboccata su tutti i lati da siepi sempreverdi foggiate ad arte a forma di cuscini.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Come sempre in giardino, l'esperienza è una in grado di appagare tutti i sensi. Qui, più che altrove, è facile perdersi fra nuvole di erbe che ti sfiorano mentre cammini e ondeggiano al più sottile alito di vento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cQoqfVQ8tpk/TrM4Xn0gVhI/AAAAAAAAAkI/eWisgq5GCyE/s1600/PO3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="149" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cQoqfVQ8tpk/TrM4Xn0gVhI/AAAAAAAAAkI/eWisgq5GCyE/s200/PO3.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;La vista è sollecitata a trovare un nuovo ordine, tanto complesso e sottile quanto appare spontaneo e casuale. Le armonie di colori, i contrasti di forme e tessiture, l'equilibrio delle proporzioni, tutto contribuisce all'estrema raffinatezza della composizione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Mi chiedo ancora, osservando nuovamente queste immagini, come un tale, sofisticato esercizio di addomesticamento della natura possa riuscire in una così suggestiva illusione di selvatichezza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;...e questo è il mistero di ogni vero giardino.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-3053976889258363338?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/3053976889258363338/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/il-giardino-prateria.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3053976889258363338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3053976889258363338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/il-giardino-prateria.html' title='il giardino prateria di Piet Oudolf'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XzYlyq-FrAM/TrMq82y_QCI/AAAAAAAAAjw/QTMcQzV_9FQ/s72-c/PO2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Broekstraat, 6999 Hummelo, The Netherlands</georss:featurename><georss:point>52.0199501 6.2423125000000255</georss:point><georss:box>52.009240600000005 6.218638500000026 52.0306596 6.265986500000025</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-7624808129750213207</id><published>2011-11-01T14:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T01:33:14.109-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ornamental grasses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wildlife gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graminacee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wildlife'/><title type='text'>la strada di tutti i giorni</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NIuIiwisWhc/TrBcpPSQQ_I/AAAAAAAAAjI/0st8TRGBK2s/s1600/sergio+dimartino.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NIuIiwisWhc/TrBcpPSQQ_I/AAAAAAAAAjI/0st8TRGBK2s/s200/sergio+dimartino.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;hai mai fatto caso a quell'aiuola spartitraffico invasa dalle erbacce lungo la strada che fai tutti i giorni per andare a lavoro? hai mai notato, al suo interno, il succedersi delle forme e dei colori via via che sfrecci sulla tua auto? ti sei mai chiesto il senso di questo alternarsi fra foglie scure e vaporose trasparenze nel corso delle stagioni?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: &amp;quot;lucida grande&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;arial&amp;quot;,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-awzkLy0CKOQ/TrBctb4FukI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/bRoxlVSQJAU/s1600/sergio+dimartino2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-awzkLy0CKOQ/TrBctb4FukI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/bRoxlVSQJAU/s200/sergio+dimartino2.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BmsuAhWYczA/TrBcvj1NbzI/AAAAAAAAAjY/KAlnc-cM10M/s1600/sergio+dimartino3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BmsuAhWYczA/TrBcvj1NbzI/AAAAAAAAAjY/KAlnc-cM10M/s200/sergio+dimartino3.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;se un giorno ti va e hai tempo, scendi dall'auto e la osservi da vicino. ti sorprendi ancora una volta, scoprendo quante diversi insetti e piante convivono in uno spazio così ristretto, come una'iuola spartitraffico... è come un Ostello! in questo momento ci sono verbasco, romice e meliloto; malva, avena, speronella e carota. tutte insieme. e ci ho visto la cavolaia, l'osmia e il bombo. chissà la sera come si popola di altri ospiti!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: &amp;quot;lucida grande&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;arial&amp;quot;,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aAIFEDaBEjY/TrBc5wyd1MI/AAAAAAAAAjo/dW3AtpYuOCA/s1600/sergio+dimartino5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aAIFEDaBEjY/TrBc5wyd1MI/AAAAAAAAAjo/dW3AtpYuOCA/s200/sergio+dimartino5.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qyfeaK79qGM/TrBc2X5TkDI/AAAAAAAAAjg/wq00-QSuZT8/s1600/sergio+dimartino4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qyfeaK79qGM/TrBc2X5TkDI/AAAAAAAAAjg/wq00-QSuZT8/s200/sergio+dimartino4.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;questo è un pezzo di "paesaggio" scampato alla cementificazione e all'asfaltizzazione e, non da ultimo, alla pratizzazione "all'inglese" - vera desertificazione in forma di fili d'erba...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: &amp;quot;lucida grande&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;arial&amp;quot;,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;questa è la superficie della terra e quello che ne facciamo dice un sacco di cose di noi altri "umani".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: &amp;quot;lucida grande&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;arial&amp;quot;,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-7624808129750213207?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/7624808129750213207/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/la-strada-di-tutti-i-giorni.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7624808129750213207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7624808129750213207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/11/la-strada-di-tutti-i-giorni.html' title='la strada di tutti i giorni'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NIuIiwisWhc/TrBcpPSQQ_I/AAAAAAAAAjI/0st8TRGBK2s/s72-c/sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-3045359826765385866</id><published>2011-09-15T15:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T14:27:46.410-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardini da sentire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte di guarire la terra'/><title type='text'>Amsterdam e il giardino diffuso</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wikcRenT46A/TnJ6poTn4FI/AAAAAAAAAiw/IjSxiJEg-jg/s1600/6137399629_967e26798f_m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wikcRenT46A/TnJ6poTn4FI/AAAAAAAAAiw/IjSxiJEg-jg/s200/6137399629_967e26798f_m.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Primo pomeriggio di un paio di giorni alla scoperta di una città sconosciuta. Mi avventuro per le strade del quartiere Jordaan. Sopresa: niente turisti, niente biciclette che ti sfrecciano affianco peggio delle automobili, niente miasmi da coffee shop. Mi riprendo dall'impatto iniziale con Amsterdam, la città più... adolescenziale che abbia conosciuto! Fra le strade di questo quartiere, che corrono parallele fra loro e si intersecano ortogonalmente, è facile perdersi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Le facciate delle case si susseguono ordinate una dietro all'altra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;A distinguerle piccoli "giardini di strada" improvvisati a ridosso degli edifici. Si tratta di piccoli spazi, spesso soltanto dei ritagli di terra a destra e sinistra delle porte di ingresso. Eppure quante piante ci possono stare! e non solo, ognuno di questi piccoli - a volte davvero minuscoli - giardini è spesso arricchito di una panchina, una scultura, talvolta addirittura un tavolino con un paio di sedie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F43ScijNrz8/TnJ7k6p59uI/AAAAAAAAAi0/nl4kISaxXe4/s1600/6137397315_03e245e97a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="149" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F43ScijNrz8/TnJ7k6p59uI/AAAAAAAAAi0/nl4kISaxXe4/s200/6137397315_03e245e97a.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Qui le strade sono spesso strette e la luce cade radente sulla facciata degli edifici e quasi ogni ingresso è accompagnato da qualche pianta. L'insieme ha qualcosa di aggraziato e gioioso e vagamente malinconico come la canzone di un signore che, cantando, fila via in bicicletta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vlHp-bVtPFg/TnJ9SDjFstI/AAAAAAAAAi4/IT-ijVRGUmI/s1600/6137397583_901201ba7a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="149" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vlHp-bVtPFg/TnJ9SDjFstI/AAAAAAAAAi4/IT-ijVRGUmI/s200/6137397583_901201ba7a.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Oltre a questa fuga di piante lungo la maggior parte delle strade, si assiste, quando lo spazio si apre in slarghi e piazzette al fiorire di aiuole pubbliche che hanno tutto l'aspetto di essere gestite&amp;nbsp;ancora una volta&amp;nbsp;da privati cittadini, sempre mossi da quella che mi sembra una volontà di ingentilire e rendere più aggraziato il percorso di ogni giorno attraverso la città.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IWiGl8sxY7Y/TnJ_YtCxaQI/AAAAAAAAAi8/uMKLAY-o3Fc/s1600/6137944154_2086452262.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IWiGl8sxY7Y/TnJ_YtCxaQI/AAAAAAAAAi8/uMKLAY-o3Fc/s200/6137944154_2086452262.jpg" width="149" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Abbiamo un giardino quando un qualche rappresentante del genere umano entra in relazione con qualche rappresentante del mondo vegetale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;La natura di questo rapporto poi, il grado di comunicazione che sarà possibile instaurare fra i rappresentanti di dei due regni e la complessità di interazioni che verranno a crearsi con gli animali e le sostanze minerali presenti sul posto, determineranno la natura del giardino. La sua salute e, oserei dire, la sua felicità.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-3045359826765385866?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/3045359826765385866/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/09/che-cosa-fa-di-un-pezzetto-di-terra-un.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3045359826765385866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3045359826765385866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/09/che-cosa-fa-di-un-pezzetto-di-terra-un.html' title='Amsterdam e il giardino diffuso'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wikcRenT46A/TnJ6poTn4FI/AAAAAAAAAiw/IjSxiJEg-jg/s72-c/6137399629_967e26798f_m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-344049533608289014</id><published>2011-08-23T20:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T14:29:20.943-07:00</updated><title type='text'>cerchi nella rugiada</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlEXbyNYaZY/TlRo-mJTidI/AAAAAAAAAis/APAYwA3WDuQ/s1600/Chris-Parsons-Dew-garden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="228" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlEXbyNYaZY/TlRo-mJTidI/AAAAAAAAAis/APAYwA3WDuQ/s320/Chris-Parsons-Dew-garden.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;FreeSans&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; margin-left: 4.6pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;FreeSans&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #595959; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;©Chris Parsons, Dew Garden 1991&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;FreeSans&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #595959; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;FreeSans&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.6pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;In partenza per un viaggio che mi porterà a nord. In terre di alberi e giardini.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.6pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-344049533608289014?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/344049533608289014/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/08/cerchi-nella-rugiada.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/344049533608289014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/344049533608289014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/08/cerchi-nella-rugiada.html' title='cerchi nella rugiada'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlEXbyNYaZY/TlRo-mJTidI/AAAAAAAAAis/APAYwA3WDuQ/s72-c/Chris-Parsons-Dew-garden.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-4569660475667800568</id><published>2011-08-21T09:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-23T08:46:33.825-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecologia profonda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mandala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urban nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deep ecology'/><title type='text'>un cerchio nel prato</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzWSQLF37s4/TlEoP4oBUXI/AAAAAAAAAio/eciOBeIikGU/s1600/6037992478_3b7983ac01_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="196" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzWSQLF37s4/TlEoP4oBUXI/AAAAAAAAAio/eciOBeIikGU/s320/6037992478_3b7983ac01_z.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Metti un giorno una gita, ai margini di un bosco trovare un campo. Nel bosco hai raccolto foglie di felci e ricci di castagno. Una pigna. Nel prato trovi spighe, foglie di romice, fiori di achillea e tanto altro ancora. Ti aiuta un'amica, hai in progetto un cerchio nel prato, compimento di una promessa e augurio per la buona riuscita di un'impresa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Lavori alla luce del sole, coi materiali del luogo. Creare un mandala vivente. Ordinare diversi elementi secondo un'armonia che risponde alla tua sensibilità, al tuo gusto per i giochi di colore, al piacere che provi giocando coi fiori.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Prima di allontanarti e lasciare al prato questo cerchio, che se ne appropri secondo i suoi tempi, lo contempli. Respiri profondo. Ti porti a casa la nostalgia per un altro mondo. Quello dove, per la prima volta, creasti un simile cerchio.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;You took a trip one day, you came across a field on the edge of a wood where you picked fern leaves and chestnut husks. And a pine cone. In the meadow you found grass spikelets, sorrel leaves and yarrow flowers. A friend is helping you in your findings and doings. There you assembled a "meadow circle", the fulfillment of a promise and a good luck sign for someone's wishes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;You did everything under the light of the sun, using local materials, creating a living mandala. You followed your sense of beauty , a taste for harmoniously arranged colours and the pleasure you feel when playing with flowers.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Before walking away and leaving your circle to the natural elements all around, you contemplated it. You took a long breath. A sudden longing for a different world took you. The same one where you first envisioned and did create one such circle.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-4569660475667800568?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/4569660475667800568/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/08/un-cerchio-nel-prato.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4569660475667800568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4569660475667800568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/08/un-cerchio-nel-prato.html' title='un cerchio nel prato'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzWSQLF37s4/TlEoP4oBUXI/AAAAAAAAAio/eciOBeIikGU/s72-c/6037992478_3b7983ac01_z.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5796631675223273530</id><published>2011-06-04T21:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-04T21:33:11.814-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Un giardino di parole</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JSh9AWN7GeE/TesFGJudx7I/AAAAAAAAAig/pOy-rW8fEr4/s1600/liz+mailer+lindisfarne+castle+gardens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JSh9AWN7GeE/TesFGJudx7I/AAAAAAAAAig/pOy-rW8fEr4/s400/liz+mailer+lindisfarne+castle+gardens.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;a lungo ho cercato una definizione di giardino che potesse abbracciare i molteplici significati che questa parola racchiude, evoca e abbraccia per me. non l'ho trovata nei dizionari, non l'ho trovata nelle tesi di laurea, nei testi per gli addetti ai lavori, raramente ho condiviso a questo proposito il punto di vista dei nuovi professionisti del verde... il giardino è un'estensione della casa, una salotto all'aperto... definizioni di comodo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;un giardino si esprime manifestandosi ai sensi, al di là delle parole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;una vista presa in prestito - a indicare la voglia del giardino di entrare in relazione con il paesaggio intorno, a volte persino tentando di escluderlo ma pur sempre prendendolo in considerazione; un muro di confine, meglio se realizzato con materiali del posto e secondo le tradizioni locali -&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;a suggerire la voglia del giardino di definire un suo mondo, la sua individualità; un portoncino, un cancello, meglio se rustico e se scricchiola sui cardini - una soglia ben definita,&amp;nbsp;il punto attraverso cui entro ed esco dal giardino; e sentieri, in terra battuta, che si insinuano fra la vegetazione come correnti in un mare spumeggiante di colori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;un giardino come il mare, mai uguale a se stesso eppure certo della sua identità, del suo odore, dei suoi colori. e come maree le stagioni che fanno montare la vegetazione, a onde, si increspa di verde il giardino... e quindi la ritirano, nella terra riposa ogni anno il giardino.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5796631675223273530?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/5796631675223273530/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/06/un-giardino-di-parole.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5796631675223273530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5796631675223273530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/06/un-giardino-di-parole.html' title='Un giardino di parole'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JSh9AWN7GeE/TesFGJudx7I/AAAAAAAAAig/pOy-rW8fEr4/s72-c/liz+mailer+lindisfarne+castle+gardens.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-6915935637721279306</id><published>2011-05-18T06:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-18T12:26:19.819-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A lavoro</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--c_HBoLRqDM/TdPGwOaBeKI/AAAAAAAAAiU/1jRGjwLS3Tc/s1600/GillesClement-LaValle%25C3%25A9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="281" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--c_HBoLRqDM/TdPGwOaBeKI/AAAAAAAAAiU/1jRGjwLS3Tc/s320/GillesClement-LaValle%25C3%25A9.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;quot;lucida grande&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;tahoma&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot;, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;"Bisogna costruire un'intelligenza nuova per fare in modo che il giardino non sia considerato come un oggetto ma come qualcosa che vive, nel tempo, attraverso la cura del giardiniere e, quindi, qualcosa di intimamente connesso alla vita delle piante, degli animali, dell'ecosistema. Questa è l'essenza del giardinaggio che però, purtro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;quot;lucida grande&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;tahoma&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot;, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"&gt;ppo, molto spesso resta totalmente ignorata. Succede che si impieghino notevoli risorse per realizzare dei progetti ma poi mancano i fondi per mantenerli e per formare i giardinieri che abbiano coscienza di questa complessità, e questo è terribile"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gilles Clément, in &lt;i&gt;Nove Giardini Planetari&lt;/i&gt; a cura di Alessandro Rocca (2007)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;quot;lucida grande&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;tahoma&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot;, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"We need to promote a new understanding, so that gardens won't be considered as sheer objects any more, but as something living over time, and thanks to a gardener's care, and thus intimately connected to the life of plants and animals and the whole ecosystem. This is the essence of gardening, though, unfortunately, so often completely ignored. What happens is that considerable amounts of money are spent over new developments, only to find out that no funds will be available to keep them and to train gardeners so that they may acknowledge such complexity - and this is awful"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;quot;lucida grande&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;tahoma&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot;, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gilles Clément, in&lt;/i&gt; Nove Giardini Planetari (&lt;i&gt;Italy, 2007&lt;/i&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-6915935637721279306?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/6915935637721279306/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/05/lavoro.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6915935637721279306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6915935637721279306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/05/lavoro.html' title='A lavoro'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--c_HBoLRqDM/TdPGwOaBeKI/AAAAAAAAAiU/1jRGjwLS3Tc/s72-c/GillesClement-LaValle%25C3%25A9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-6758980393122703074</id><published>2011-04-28T12:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-28T13:49:52.074-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='primavera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><title type='text'>La ruota dell'anno</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YZgyontYt1U/TbnLyQCoNOI/AAAAAAAAAiM/ND9Ttfwpi4A/s1600/sera%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YZgyontYt1U/TbnLyQCoNOI/AAAAAAAAAiM/ND9Ttfwpi4A/s200/sera%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600731675771811042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Oggi qualcuno ha detto "chi corre perde l'ombra". Come a dire che perde qalcosa di essenziale di sé, ciò che ci rende umani fino in fondo...&lt;p&gt;Così ogni attività che ci richiede di fermarci e respirare e sentire come stiamo in questo momento e osservare quello che sta succedendo intorno e dentro di noi ci offre un'occasione per ritrovare il passo che ci appartiene e ritrovarci con gli strati più profondi di noi stessi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Così è col giardinaggio, ti insegna la pazienza e la cura. Allora può capitare che volevi fare bella figura con gli amici e hai seminato il prato nuovo, ma l'erba non è cresciuta in tempo per il tuo party. Hai steso un prato a rotoli, era stupendo appena l'hai acquistato, ma ora della festa si è ammalato. Oppure hai il rimpianto perché quell'azalea era davvero spettacolare tutta in fiore, e adesso che hai gli invitati, fa l'effetto di una sala del cinema quando accendono le luci dopo l'ultimo spettacolo. Ecco, in giardino, niente e nessuno corre, sta a te accordarti al ritmo dei giorni che passano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Così può capitare che una sera di primavera, dopo qualche ora, come tante, passata all'aperto a rinvasare, seminare, spostare; potare, eliminare, raccogliere; vagliare, bagnare, pacciamare ti ritrovi coi tralci lunghi di un caprifoglio che hai contenuto perché non invada il terrazzo dei tuoi vicini e intrecci una ghirlanda, guardi le ombre del tramonto e ti dici "è ora di rientrare". &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-6758980393122703074?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/6758980393122703074/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-ruota-dellanno.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6758980393122703074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6758980393122703074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-ruota-dellanno.html' title='La ruota dell&apos;anno'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YZgyontYt1U/TbnLyQCoNOI/AAAAAAAAAiM/ND9Ttfwpi4A/s72-c/sera%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5836573443769069099</id><published>2011-02-27T13:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-07T15:43:23.000-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><title type='text'>Una questione di integrità</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5ZD4Wb3ftuI/TW1juAMc41I/AAAAAAAAAh0/rJnMYT_C2bo/s1600/copyright%2BTechnogreen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579225155359269714" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 129px; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5ZD4Wb3ftuI/TW1juAMc41I/AAAAAAAAAh0/rJnMYT_C2bo/s200/copyright%2BTechnogreen.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Parlano di noi. Raccontano quello in cui crediamo, dicono chi siamo. Sono gli alberi che vediamo in giro nei nostri parchi e nei giardini. Sono le piante mutilate, sbrancate, capitozzate che parlano per conto dei loro proprietari... Sento le voci di questi ultimi e i loro giri di parole quando non vogliono ammettere quello che provano... diciamo di amare gli alberi, la verità è che abbiamo paura che crescano liberi e vigorosi, che siano floridi e ricchi di frutti; ai nostri occhi non fanno che sporcare coi loro frutti e con le foglie che intasano le nostre grondaie, imbrattano lo scivolo dell'autorimessa, soffocano l'erba; e poi fanno polvere; attirano gli insetti; temiamo che cadano, che si abbattano sul tetto, che si schiantino sulla casa del vicino. Non dormiamo la notte perché abbiamo paura. Abbiamo PAURA dei nostri alberi... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Un uccello vede in un albero un'occasione per ripararsi, un'eventuale fonte di nutrimento e riposo, un territorio da difendere; un cane l'opportunità per fare i suoi bisogni; un gatto l'occasione per affilarsi le unghie, per andare a caccia e farsi un riposino; insetti e altre piante poi, muschi e licheni, vivono del sistema albero. Noi invece vediamo un albero e abbiamo paura. Paura della sua forza, paura della sua bellezza. Paura del suo vigore, della sua pervicacia, della sua autonomia. In fondo non vogliamo che sia libero di esprimersi, portare a compimento il disegno della sua forma, il progetto che era racchiuso nel suo seme. Siamo quasi infastiditi dalla sua determinazione a portare avanti il suo compito, la sua missione - essere ciò che è.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2m6Crjvz2YA/TW1jdjMnatI/AAAAAAAAAhs/Q1Qd54wbvow/s1600/omaggio_a_un_patriarca%2528c%2529sergio_dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579224872697424594" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2m6Crjvz2YA/TW1jdjMnatI/AAAAAAAAAhs/Q1Qd54wbvow/s200/omaggio_a_un_patriarca%2528c%2529sergio_dimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Forse perché abbiamo tradito noi stessi il nostro intento originale, quello in cui credevamo, il nostro ideale, i nostri sogni. Chi volevamo essere, chi volevamo diventare? Per un albero o un filo d'erba è più semplice, loro seguono un disegno ben preciso, tanto è vero che anche se li tagliamo, li amputiamo, li capitozziamo, pazientemente tendono a ricostruire quella forma, a ridare espressione a quel modello ideale di pianta a cui aspirano. Noi ci perdiamo più facilmente.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Allevare una pianta non è semplicemente piegarla, costringerla nella forma e nelle dimensioni che fanno comodo a noi. Allevare una pianta è condurla pazientemente e sapientemente a esprimere le potenzialità della sua specie in accordo con il suo, per così dire, "carattere personale" - sviluppatosi in seguito alla sua storia particolare, alle condizioni di giacitura e composizione del terreno in cui cresce, alla vicinanza di altre piante, edifici e manufatti, all'esposizione alle avversità che ha incontrato, alle intemperie, agli attacchi parassitari e non da ultimo a interventi "manutentivi" impropri.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3er3yX_pjtg/TW1ix1woPBI/AAAAAAAAAhk/SlZaABYjOVE/s1600/i%2Bfrutti%2Bdell%2527olmo%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579224121766067218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3er3yX_pjtg/TW1ix1woPBI/AAAAAAAAAhk/SlZaABYjOVE/s200/i%2Bfrutti%2Bdell%2527olmo%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Allevare una pianta - come qualsiasi altro essere vivente - è una responsabilità, è un richiamo continuo al nostro stesso percorso, all'espressione delle nostre stesse potenzialità e a quello che di noi possiamo offrire alla collettività quando noi stessi avremo raggiunto la nostra maturità e saremo pronti a fiorire e portare frutti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;--------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Allora, che cosa fare? Diffondere e promuovere una cultura di rispetto e cura per i nostri alberi - lo ha fatto recentemente la LIPU con la pubblicazione di un &lt;a href="http://www.lipu.it/pdf/DossierLIPUalberi.pdf"&gt;Dossier&lt;/a&gt; che merita di essere diffuso a tutti i cittadini e a tutte le Amministrazioni Pubbliche su tutto il territorio nazionale e lo ha fatto il Comune di Torino con la Pubblicazione del &lt;a href="http://www.treeclimbing.it/alberi/torino.html"&gt;Manuale per Tecnici del Verde Urbano&lt;/a&gt;. Denunciare ai Sindaci e ai Settori competenti i casi di errata gestione e mal governo del patrimonio arboreo comune coi relativi danni che ne conseguono alla cittadinanza, come hanno fatto in maniera pacata ed esemplare le maestre della &lt;a href="http://www.legambienterivierabrenta.org/?p=869"&gt;Scuola Elementare di Dolo&lt;/a&gt;, in provincia di Venezia. Rivolgersi a professionisti di comprovata esperienza ogni qualvolta abbiamo bisogno di fare una valutazione e intervenire sui nostri alberi e nei nostri giardini, qui &lt;a href="http://www.fito-consult.it/default.htm"&gt;un esempio eccellente&lt;/a&gt;. Se siete dei giardinieri, astenetevi da interventi che ritenete inutili e dannosi per le piante anche a costo di perdere un potenziale cliente; sappiate che là fuori c'è tutta una serie di persone, possessori di piante e giardini che non aspettano che trovare un giardiniere qualificato in grado di prendersi cura dei propri alberi. Eseguite potature di cui essere fieri, siate sicuri che un bambino possa guardare con gioia e serenità il lavoro che avete appena eseguito. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--lusyyPiLXA/TXH2fM-S3rI/AAAAAAAAAh8/tHxUDUSouUk/s1600/castle_oak%2528c%2529david_pearson.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580512429207641778" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--lusyyPiLXA/TXH2fM-S3rI/AAAAAAAAAh8/tHxUDUSouUk/s200/castle_oak%2528c%2529david_pearson.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Per quanti dei miei lettori poi "somatizzano" - non possono cioè fare a meno di accusare un senso di malessere e un dolore quasi fisico di fronte allo spettacolo di capitozzature e dannose e inutili mutilazioni della chioma degli alberi nei nostri parchi e giardini, oltre alle azioni di cui sopra, consiglio una piccola pratica di riequilibrio. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Osservate il misfatto, se le capitozature sono state inflitte a più piante come su di un filare o a un intero gruppo di alberi può essere utile sceglierne una singolarmente, rimanete per qualche minuto nel disagio che vi causa. Cercate di percepire dove si colloca nel vostro corpo - negli arti? allo sterno, al plesso solare? a livello degli occhi? - e di quale colore si tinge - è rabbia? impotenza? indignazione? sconforto? dispiacere? paura? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Primo passo. Prendetevi qualche minuto per accogliere questa sensazione e le emozioni e i pensieri che suscita in voi. State con lei e quindi ritrovate il centro del vostro equilibrio, osservate il vostro stato da una certa distanza.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Secondo passo. Siate certi che l'albero in questione sta vivendo questa esperienza su un piano diverso dal nostro. Esso non giudica, semplicemente mobiliterà tutte le risorse che possiede - riserve energetiche a livello delle radici e del fusto, gemme quiescienti, etc. - e metterà in atto tutte le soluzioni che conosce - compartimentazione, callo cicatriziale, etc. - per far fronte e possibilmente rimediare al danno subito.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Terzo passo. Collegatevi all'immagine intatta dell'albero così come ve lo ricordate, se lo frequentavate e lo conoscevate già da prima, o così come è propria di quella determinata specie. A questo proposito può essere utile, una volta identificata la specie dell'albero in questione, cercarne l'immagine di un esemplare sano e vigoroso, o anche il disegno della sua silouette ideale. Rimanete con questa immagine, coltivatela dentro di voi ed entrate in risonanza con l'albero vicino a voi. Sentite quello che succede allora, e scambiatevi un abbraccio con il vostro albero. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5836573443769069099?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/5836573443769069099/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/02/una-questione-di-integrita.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5836573443769069099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5836573443769069099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/02/una-questione-di-integrita.html' title='Una questione di integrità'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5ZD4Wb3ftuI/TW1juAMc41I/AAAAAAAAAh0/rJnMYT_C2bo/s72-c/copyright%2BTechnogreen.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-2775141652454151034</id><published>2011-02-17T15:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T04:20:48.739-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wildlife gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meadows'/><title type='text'>sognando l'estate</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--x4ZrjblwIY/TV2sQr2yZVI/AAAAAAAAAhA/yuZc97qQuLg/s1600/country%2Bgarden%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574801316404946258" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--x4ZrjblwIY/TV2sQr2yZVI/AAAAAAAAAhA/yuZc97qQuLg/s320/country%2Bgarden%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I giardini più riusciti sono un perfetto equilibrio di ordine e caos. La tensione creata da questo equilibrio costantemente minacciato è il battito cardiaco del giardino. (&lt;em&gt;Il giardino perduto&lt;/em&gt;, H. Humphreys)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The best gardens are a perfect balance of order and chaos. The tension created by this constant threatened balance is the pulse of the garden itself.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;(&lt;/em&gt;The Lost Garden, &lt;em&gt;Helen Humphreys)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-2775141652454151034?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/2775141652454151034/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/02/sognando-lestate.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2775141652454151034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2775141652454151034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/02/sognando-lestate.html' title='sognando l&apos;estate'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--x4ZrjblwIY/TV2sQr2yZVI/AAAAAAAAAhA/yuZc97qQuLg/s72-c/country%2Bgarden%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-8458475560777697568</id><published>2011-01-19T17:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-16T14:07:44.890-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecovillage Findhorn'/><title type='text'>Un disegno comune</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeUqdafXAI/AAAAAAAAAgE/l4eKLtPEAMY/s1600/P5034975.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564079321810689026" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeUqdafXAI/AAAAAAAAAgE/l4eKLtPEAMY/s200/P5034975.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; “Le cooperative sociali sono morte”. Fa lui. “La cooperazione è morta”. So che non parla tanto per dire qualcosa. E allora mi chiedo che cosa intenda, Sandro, affermando una cosa così. Lui che “nel sociale” lavora da ventitré anni ed è mio collega da dieci anni, quando siamo nati proprio come &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperativa_sociale"&gt;Cooperativa Sociale&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Realtà complesse, sviluppatesi a partire da esperienze di volontariato e laboratori protetti da cui aspiravano a differenziarsi, le Cooperative Sociali fanno dell’aspetto produttivo e imprenditoriale, della occasione di produrre degli utili per poter vivere autonomamente all’interno del mercato un punto cardine della loro realizzazione. Che sia stato questo aspetto, il loro stesso punto di forza, ad averne decretato contemporaneamente il successo e “la morte”?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeWXul_mAI/AAAAAAAAAgc/IBMf1QkAgC8/s1600/3404936297_14d0f4a200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564081199028082690" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeWXul_mAI/AAAAAAAAAgc/IBMf1QkAgC8/s200/3404936297_14d0f4a200.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;E di quale morte stiamo parlando se le cooperative sociali rappresentano in Italia un'importante realtà, sia sotto il profilo occupazionale sia per quel che riguarda l'erogazione di servizi, con una crescita significativa in questi ultimi anni, come si evince da un recente e interessante &lt;a href="http://www.intesaformazione.it/pagine/pubblicazioni/Modelli_organizzativi.pdf"&gt;rapporto&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;È cambiata la società in seno alla quale fiorirono originariamente queste esperienze, sono cambiate le aspirazioni di quanti si trovano a dar vita, oggi, a queste nuove realtà nelle quali il mio collega Sandro forse non riconosce più nulla dello spirito che animava le cooperative d’antan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Che “fare cooperativa” sia divenuto sinonimo di “fare impresa” nella misura in cui se fallisci come impresa hai comunque fallito come cooperativa? Ma avere successo come impresa significa automaticamente avere successo come cooperativa? È importante soffermarsi su questo aspetto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeW47fvNPI/AAAAAAAAAgk/YiP5lWSsBDo/s1600/3405748916_651bdf25be.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564081769427186930" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeW47fvNPI/AAAAAAAAAgk/YiP5lWSsBDo/s200/3405748916_651bdf25be.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Che concentrandoci sulla nostra propria sopravvivenza economica abbiano perso di vista, come cooperative, l’importanza del revisionare e rinnovare costantemente il senso del nostro esserci e operare quotidiano?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abbiamo trascurato gli aspetti più filosofici della nostra identità? Abbiamo cessato di porci le domande fondamentali: chi siamo? da dove veniamo? dove stiamo andando?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abbiamo insistito sulla “dignità” del lavoro – il lavoro inteso come strumento principale di riabilitazione sociale – spesso dimenticandoci che cosa sia un lavoro dignitoso, imponendoci grandi sacrifici a fronte di soddisfazioni spesso limitate pur di sopravvivere sul mercato. Siamo ancora così certi che inserire le persone su questo mercato, a queste condizioni, sia “la cosa giusta”? lo strumento più adeguato per restituire loro autostima e dignità sociale? Dobbiamo farcele queste domande.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeXDriOT5I/AAAAAAAAAgs/DvB5Lk1YKps/s1600/3407391779_ab72f8e751.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564081954121207698" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeXDriOT5I/AAAAAAAAAgs/DvB5Lk1YKps/s200/3407391779_ab72f8e751.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;E che ne è del “legame con il territorio” che da sempre contraddistingue le cooperative sociali? come siamo stati capaci di onorarlo e approfondirlo facendo sì che le nostre attività lascino un territorio più ricco - in termini di creatività, cultura, bellezza, riconoscenza per tutto ciò che ci offre - riespetto a quello che abbiamo trovato? o questo legame, con il tempo, è andato sempre più assottigliandosi e riducendosi a un rapporto più strettamente utilitaristico come è vero per la maggior parte delle aziende sul mercato?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E infine come abbiamo promosso e qualificato la crescita – professionale e personale – dei nostri operatori sociali? Perché, se è vero che “per fare le cooperative ci vogliono le persone” voglio credere nella possibilità che anche le cooperative fanno le persone all'occorrenza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeXOD88rYI/AAAAAAAAAg0/ci8fwKW7bhk/s1600/3424518413_0d60affd30.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564082132474441090" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeXOD88rYI/AAAAAAAAAg0/ci8fwKW7bhk/s200/3424518413_0d60affd30.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Se dovessi suggerire dove cercare, oggi, ispirazione e nuovi stimoli per rianimare le cooperative con lo spirito di un tempo nella sua veste più matura e aggiornata, rivolgerei la mia attenzione alla realtà emergente degli &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillage"&gt;ecovillaggi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In queste nuove realtà sembra che si stia manifestando in maniera consapevole ed equilibrata un nuovo equilibrio fra "economia" (aspetti sociali ed economici), "persona" (aspetti culturali e filosofici) e "territorio" (aspetti ecologici). Equilibrio che, a mio avviso, dobbiamo nuovamente ricercare e riscoprire come cooperative se vogliamo onorare il nostro originale intento volto al "perseguimento dell’interesse generale della comunità alla promozione umana e all’integrazione sociale dei cittadini."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Immagini scattate presso l'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ecovillagefindhorn.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ecovillaggio di Findhorn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; nell'aprile 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-8458475560777697568?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/8458475560777697568/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/01/un-disegno-comune.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8458475560777697568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8458475560777697568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/01/un-disegno-comune.html' title='Un disegno comune'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TTeUqdafXAI/AAAAAAAAAgE/l4eKLtPEAMY/s72-c/P5034975.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-4199838738166429877</id><published>2011-01-11T07:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T18:07:42.408-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardens to feel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardini da sentire'/><title type='text'>A caccia di forme nel giardino</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSx6LiuQ7oI/AAAAAAAAAe8/qbqlOceATMY/s1600/4341774432_ee42aa83e3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560953978613722754" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 150px; cursor: pointer; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSx6LiuQ7oI/AAAAAAAAAe8/qbqlOceATMY/s200/4341774432_ee42aa83e3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Intorno agli edifici della &lt;a href="http://www.fondazionelemadri.it/"&gt;Fondazione Le Madri&lt;/a&gt; a Rolo, Reggio Emilia, si estende un giardino che mi ha stregato dal primo momento in cui lo vidi, un anno fa, al buio, sotto un manto di neve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi ero recato presso la Fondazione per seguire un corso sui cosmogrammi biodinamici ed ecco questo giardino fu l'introduzione pratica - e vivente - agli argomenti che avremmo esplorato in aula.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La forma, le forme del vivente e come si organizzano fra loro, come si inseriscono in un paesaggio, come danno vita a un intero paesaggio e in questo caso a un giardino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TS3iGCQUaLI/AAAAAAAAAfk/VcqRReNb5gw/s1600/2_sergio_dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561349708184840370" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 150px; cursor: pointer; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TS3iGCQUaLI/AAAAAAAAAfk/VcqRReNb5gw/s200/2_sergio_dimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tutto è curvilineo, biomorfo. Il terreno, altrimenti piatto nella campagna circostante, è stato generosamente modellato qui per ricavare una superficie ricca di movimenti e dislivelli - ora più dolci, ora più accentuati - sempre in equilibrio fra loro e con i corpi d'acqua e le masse vegetali che ospitano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I percorsi sono allegri e ricchi di sorprese, portano il visitatore alla scoperta del giardino accompagnandolo lungo corsi d'acqua e prati d'erba alta, per insinuarsi nel folto di un boschetto, riuscire in uno spazio aperto e montare quindi dolcemente su per una collinetta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSyWowkVtPI/AAAAAAAAAfM/Qet_gBVWPtY/s1600/4341774436_f54135a970.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560985266871973106" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 150px; cursor: pointer; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSyWowkVtPI/AAAAAAAAAfM/Qet_gBVWPtY/s200/4341774436_f54135a970.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Anche un osservatore distratto rimarrebbe colpito poi dalla ricchezza e dalla varietà di alberi e arbusti, suffrutici e erbe presenti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;Le siepi hanno le forme più belle, e insolite, e tuttavia armoniche ed equilibrate, che ci si potrebbe aspettare a seconda delle diverse specie, bosso e ligustro soprattutto. Proprio come se il loro autore, il giardiniere, avesse interrogato loro, le piante, prima di metter mano a forbici e cesoie, e così l'accrescimento di un ramo in una direzione, un vuoto nell'altra, sono stati i punti di partenza, l'ispirazione per modellare le siepi secondo forme e linee di forza proprie di quella specie e particolarmente per quel soggetto lì, cresciuto in quelle determinate condizioni di esposizione, temperatura, umidità etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;style&gt; v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}&lt;/style&gt;E ancora bei gruppi di crespino, rose rugose, giaggioli e ginestre, fra gli altri, disegnano altre siepi e aiuole a fare da sfondo alle fioriture dei prati. I margini delle aree a boschetto contano frangole, noccioli e cornioli.&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TS3iR9F259I/AAAAAAAAAfs/jO8n0245S6g/s1600/4_sergio_dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561349912957216722" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 150px; cursor: pointer; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TS3iR9F259I/AAAAAAAAAfs/jO8n0245S6g/s200/4_sergio_dimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Gli alberi appartengono anch’essi a numerose specie fra cui ricordo aceri, carpini, farnie, pioppi, betulle, persino alcuni abeti sul versante esposto a nord di una delle collinette, e alcuni susini da fiore. Per lo più vigorose e in ottima salute, soltanto più tardi avrei scoperto con mano che sono fatte oggetto di un trattamento di cura particolare attraverso l’applicazione di una pasta per tronchi per nutrirle e aumentarne le difese da eventuali parassiti che si annidano fra le fessure della corteccia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TS3hpcezZNI/AAAAAAAAAfc/CbV8RnTYgUM/s1600/5_sergio_dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561349217008706770" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 150px; cursor: pointer; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TS3hpcezZNI/AAAAAAAAAfc/CbV8RnTYgUM/s200/5_sergio_dimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Allo stesso modo l’architettura degli edifici esistenti è stata come ammorbidita e resa più organica dall’inserimento di linee curve e forme arrotondate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;Letture consigliate:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;L'uomo, sintesi armonica delle attività creatrici universali&lt;/span&gt; - R. Steiner, Ed. Antroposofica&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Il Giardino Biodinamico&lt;/span&gt; - P. Pistis, Ed. Logos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-4199838738166429877?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/4199838738166429877/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/01/caccia-di-forme-in-giardino.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4199838738166429877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4199838738166429877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2011/01/caccia-di-forme-in-giardino.html' title='A caccia di forme nel giardino'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSx6LiuQ7oI/AAAAAAAAAe8/qbqlOceATMY/s72-c/4341774432_ee42aa83e3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-3612823762151064487</id><published>2010-12-26T16:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T18:08:58.972-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via del giardino'/><title type='text'>Un giardino in tutte le stagioni</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TRuZ6Sr6gdI/AAAAAAAAAeU/92ixJRwDgpA/s1600/my_little_round_friend%2528c%2529dave_pearson.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556203792019128786" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TRuZ6Sr6gdI/AAAAAAAAAeU/92ixJRwDgpA/s320/my_little_round_friend%2528c%2529dave_pearson.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;© Picture by Dave Pearson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;In inverno il giardino non mente. Se durante tutto il resto dell'anno possiamo facilmente rimanere abbagliati da questa o da quella fioritura, se anche l'autunno ci sorprende quando il giardino si veste del suo abito più sfarzoso, è in inverno che possiamo scoprire la sua verità, il segreto della sua bellezza e quello della sua fragilità.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;A garden could never deceive you, and mostly so in wintertime. Throughout the rest of the year, we may easily be dazzled by this or that blooming prodigy; and the garden's Autumn dress will fire our last enthusiasm. In Winter though we can unveil a garden's secret, the misteries of its beauty and its fragility.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Che cosa tiene insieme un giardino? che cosa gli conferisce quelle caratteristiche che lo rendono un luogo così attraente al di là dei fiori e dei profumi e delle fronde degli alberi? che cosa resta di un giardino quando tutte le sue qualità più appariscenti sono come riassorbite dalla terra?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What prevents a garden from falling apart? what makes a garden such a special place apart from fragrances and flowers and the canopy of trees? what remains of a garden when all of its most striking qualities are sucked in by the earth?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;L'inverno ci regala qualche giorno in cui il tempo è come sospeso e possiamo dare uno sguardo spassionato al nostro giardino. Non è facile, intendiamoci, è come guardarci allo specchio da nudi: saltano all'occhio le cose che non ci piacciono della nostra figura!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Winter grants us a few days when time is as if suspended in the garden and we can thoroughly look at it without the usual expectations for something to bloom. It may not be such an easy task, it's like looking at ourselves in the mirror, with no clothes on: what we don't approve of our looks just stands out then!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le erbe più ricche di linfa si sono afflosciate su se stesse scoprendo, nel migliore dei casi, alcune piccole gemme a livello del terreno; quelle più ricche di legno svettano rigide e orgogliose fino a spezzarsi. Il tappeto è in larga parte coperto di foglie. Delle specie stagionali, se abbiamo lasciato al loro posto salvie, begonie, canne di vetro e nuove guinea, vanto dell'estate, collassate al suolo, non sarà rimasto che un ammasso informe e molliccio; se invece abbiamo provveduto a sostituirle con viole e ciclamini, questi, ancora tramortiti dal tragitto percorso dai tunnel dove erano coccolati al pieno campo, avranno già perso i primi fiori e appariranno tutti intirizziti dai primi geli per riprendersi soltanto più in avanti con la stagione. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of beautiful perennials, those with sappy leaves lie on the ground concealing tiny buds at their foot; while those with sturdy stems stand upright till they break. Lawns are likely to be carpeted with leaves all over. As for annuals, if we left any of them in their beds, they will be reduced to a frozen blob by now. If we were sensible enough to replace them, it will take some time for their winter counterparts to settle in and flourish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Insomma, che cosa resta di tutto lo splendore di cui abbiamo creduto di godere fino a qualche settimane fa? Niente, neanche il ricordo? Oppure, la magia del luogo è ancora lì? I colori della terra, le armonie dei bruni e dei grigi si inseguono dalla corteccia di un prugnolo ai ramoscelli di un viburno? I rossi e gli aranci di bacche e cinorrodi attirano lo sguardo insieme alle gemme scure e appuntite di uno scotano? Un pettirosso ci guarda curioso e affamato, mentre lo osserviamo, e ci rendiamo conto d'un tratto di essere esattamente qui e in nessun altro posto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;So then, what is left of all the beauty we were supposed to enjoy until a few weeks ago? nothing, not even a memory? or is it still there along with the magic of this place? are the colours of the earth, in different shades of brown and grey, chasing each other from blackthorn branches to viburnum twigs? red berries and orange rose hips catch the eye along with the dark and and pointed buds of a smoke bush? An inquisitive and hungry robin i&lt;/span&gt;s &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;staring back at us as we look at it and we are suddenly aware of being exactly here and nowhere else...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allora possiamo commuoverci, l'inverno non ci ha rubato il giardino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We can rejoice then, winter has not stolen our garden from us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-3612823762151064487?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/3612823762151064487/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/12/un-giardino-in-tutte-le-stagioni.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3612823762151064487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3612823762151064487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/12/un-giardino-in-tutte-le-stagioni.html' title='Un giardino in tutte le stagioni'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TRuZ6Sr6gdI/AAAAAAAAAeU/92ixJRwDgpA/s72-c/my_little_round_friend%2528c%2529dave_pearson.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-4307465436588195362</id><published>2010-12-22T15:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-08-21T09:32:17.316-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via delle parole'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of words'/><title type='text'>a treasure I have found</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TRKGu0QL_AI/AAAAAAAAAd8/VnUbB-hfYeI/s1600/%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553649429359885314" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TRKGu0QL_AI/AAAAAAAAAd8/VnUbB-hfYeI/s320/%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 249px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?&lt;br /&gt;(Kahlil Gibran)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Uno che va in cerca di silenzi sono io, e quale tesoro ho trovato nel silenzio che possa dispensare con fiducia?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Kalhil Gibran)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This blog recently turned one year old, I wish to say thanks to all readers and contributors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Il blog ha compiuto un anno pochi giorni fa, grazie a tutti i lettori e a quanti direttamente e indirettamente vi hanno contribuito.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-4307465436588195362?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/4307465436588195362/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/12/treasure-i-have-found.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4307465436588195362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4307465436588195362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/12/treasure-i-have-found.html' title='a treasure I have found'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TRKGu0QL_AI/AAAAAAAAAd8/VnUbB-hfYeI/s72-c/%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5881263972199519860</id><published>2010-12-11T00:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-02T11:18:13.499-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio profondo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via del giardino'/><title type='text'>il sorriso del giardino</title><content type='html'>Lavori in giardino. Primo sopralluogo. Dobbiamo usare molta attenzione e il massimo rispetto quando ci accingiamo ad entrare, sia pure per ragioni meramente professionali, in un contatto così profondo e diretto con la fisicità e l'intimità degli spazi altrui. Per quello che un giardino ci rivela dello spirito di chi lo possiede, dobbiamo cercare di meravigliarci sempre e non giudicare mai. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549839301587748434" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TQT9cMOjxlI/AAAAAAAAAd0/sWW7j6BblPI/s200/winter%2Bgrasses%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;La prima cosa che percepisco visitando un giardino è in quale misura esso sia creato e vissuto per sé stessi - per il proprio piacere e la propria utilità personali e della cerchia dei propri cari - e quanto piuttosto sia vissuto in funzione della società, degli altri - siano essi i parenti, i vicini o qualcuno su cui ci teniamo a fare “bella figura”. Io chiamo questa fase: cogliere il sorriso del giardino. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sì, un po' come se il giardino sorridesse - nei due casi estremi: lo fa perché sta bene e è in pace con se stesso e i suoi eventuali difetti? o perché "deve", tutto tirato e smagliante, per essere sempre all’altezza di quello che potrebbero pensare di lui?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549838701635871330" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TQT85RO4omI/AAAAAAAAAdc/ZfCg5elVa9g/s200/full%2Bspring%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Il giardino è un organismo. Ha una sua individualità che in parte condivide con quella di chi lo coltiva e se ne prende cura e in parte è il frutto del carattere del luogo, delle condizioni del clima e del terreno in cui sorge e della storia, della cultura e delle tradizioni orticole che in quel luogo si sono tramandate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un giardino sereno non si preoccupa di essere un po' spettinato, con qualche foglia sul prato, qualche erba selvatica cresciuta in un angolino o lasciata fiorire deliberatamente in mezzo alle aiuole, è ricco di insetti e animali e generoso di fiori e frutti. Non ha paura di essere diverso dai giardini che ha intorno. Sovente spicca per la sua individualità.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549838906049403794" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TQT9FKu3m5I/AAAAAAAAAdk/FVE_PFUks-4/s200/distantrelatives%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;E' piacevole in ogni stagione e ha sempre qualcosa da offrire: capsule e bacche in inverno e prati multiformi orlati di brina e montagne di foglie in cui si annidano animaletti in letargo; campanellini e bucaneve ad annunciare l'arrivo della primavera con l'erompere delle foglie dalle gemme e il terreno, costantemente lavorato da un battaglione di affezionati lombrichi, che torna friabile sotto ai piedi; profumi e ronzio d’api e canzoni di uccelli, nuvole di temporale e farfalle, d'estate; gli ultimi fiori, i frutti più dolci e erbe cariche di spighe dorate e brune infruttescenze in autunno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora ci sono alcuni accorgimenti che è possibile adottare per trasformare il vostro giardino, terrazzo e fioriera in un giardino che sorride.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prima cosa, siate generosi nel piantare erbe e arbusti, accostandoli nelle aiuole in funzione delle loro esigenze e dell’atmosfera che intendete evocare. Considerate molto attentamente la scelta e la collocazione di uno o più alberi in funzione dello spazio a disposizione e dello sviluppo della pianta a maturità raggiunta. La presenza equilibrata di questi tre strati – erbaceo, arbustivo e arboreo – all’interno del sistema-giardino consente lo strutturarsi di diversi habitat e assicura una altrettanto ricca e variegata e indispensabile presenza di animali, ospiti residenti e di passaggio, nel vostro giardino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549839125961039346" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TQT9R9943fI/AAAAAAAAAds/5maySFkXxUg/s200/autumn%2527s%2Bcalling%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Seconda cosa, prendete tutte le misure affinché il ciclo della materia e dell’energia all’interno del vostro giardino sia a circuito chiuso. Inizialmente, all’atto di costituire un giardino, è facile che sarà necessario apportarvi contributi dall’esterno in termini di ammendanti per il terreno, terra stessa di coltura, concimi e piante. Mano a mano che il giardino cresce e si sviluppa contate sulla sua capacità di rigenerarsi, quindi imparate a curarlo con i principi delle piante stesse che in esso crescono; e reintegrate, per quanto più vi è possibile, le sue energie con l’apporto e la ridistribuzione del materiale che esso stesso produce nel corso dell’anno mediante la trasformazione in compost di erba falciata, foglie e rami e ramaglie risultanti dalle operazioni di potatura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terzo, ma non per importanza, coltivate una relazione con il vostro giardino. Frequentatelo in ogni stagione e state attenti a tutti i processi di cui vi renderà partecipi. Ricordate, come dice qualcuno, il miglior concime per le piante è l’ombra del giardiniere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A smiling garden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;A garden needs your help. First inspection. Please, be as careful and respectful as possible, when you're about to enter - even if just for professional reasons&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; - in such a deep and meaningful relationship with someonelse's intimate space. About that which a garden reveals to us of the spirit of its owner, we need to always wonder and n&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ever be judging.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSDNSfcesaI/AAAAAAAAAec/rcYUnZxTGI4/s1600/prato%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSDNSfcesaI/AAAAAAAAAec/rcYUnZxTGI4/s200/prato%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557667657737482658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;The first thing I try and feel when visiting a garden is up to what extent it was created and is now being enjoyed lived by its owners - for their own pleasure &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;and personal use and that of the&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ir circle of loved ones - or to which extent it was rather meant to please other people - be they&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; relatives, neighbours or just anyone to impress. I call this stage trying to catch the smile of the garden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes, just as if a garden could smile - so, is it smiling because it feels contented in itself, even if far from being "perfect"? or is that a grin it put on its face in the attempt to always appear up to the standards that people might expect of its performances?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSDNp_Y0JSI/AAAAAAAAAek/bD-XRBC852U/s1600/wild%2Bon%2Bmy%2Bterrace%2528c%2529sergio_dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSDNp_Y0JSI/AAAAAAAAAek/bD-XRBC852U/s200/wild%2Bon%2Bmy%2Bterrace%2528c%2529sergio_dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557668061449037090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;A garden is an organism with its own personality, which it shares with the character of those &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;who lo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ok after it and the character of the place itself. This is the result of soil and climate conditions, and of local horticultural traditions that have been handed down in that place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;A self-satisfied garden does not bother be&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ing a bit messy at times, with a few leaves on the lawn, some wild grass growing in a corner or deliberately left to flourish in the midst of a flower bed. A nonchalant garden is rich in insects a&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;nd animals and all kinds of flowers and berries and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; fruit. It has n&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; shame of being considered different from neighbouring garden&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;s all around. On the contrary it often stands out for its individual character.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSDOF7iMFRI/AAAAAAAAAes/Nd8d0sv6mew/s1600/late%2Bsummer%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSDOF7iMFRI/AAAAAAAAAes/Nd8d0sv6mew/s200/late%2Bsummer%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557668541450949906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is always welcoming you, in every season, and always willing to share something with you. Throughou winter, nuts and berries and lawns with frost-edged blades of grass and huge heaps of leaves where hibernatin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;g animals did hide;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;snowflakes and snowdrops announcing the arrival of spring with leaves pushing through unfolding buds and hosts of loyal earthworms mixing the soil&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;that turns friable once more; during summer, singing birds and humming bees in the air that's softly fragrant and hovering butterflies and sudden thunderstorms;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;and autumn brings forth a few more flowers, sweet apples and seedheads of different shades of brown &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;and gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;-------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now there are quite a few things you can do in order to transform your garden, terrace or evn just a planter into a smiling garden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;First, be generous in your plantings: a variety of perennials and shrubs, selected on the basis of your environment and their needs and the overall atmosphere they're meant to evoke. As for trees, consider very carefully the choice and placement of one or more trees depending on the available space and the size of the grown up tree. A balanced presence of herbaceous perennials, shrubs and trees grouped in congruent layers allows the developing of different habitats within the garden which provide an equally diverse and vital presence of animals, visiting and resident guests of your garden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSDOex6soxI/AAAAAAAAAe0/cEpd97VTYiA/s1600/autumn%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 140px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TSDOex6soxI/AAAAAAAAAe0/cEpd97VTYiA/s200/autumn%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557668968366121746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;Second, make sure the energy and matter cycle within yuor garden is a closed circuit one. At first, when creating a garden, you may easily need to import stuff from the outside, in terms of dirt or soil itself, manure and plants of course. In time, as the graden grows and develops, count on its own ability to regenerate itself. Build your own soil through composting and learn how to grow herbs to extract organic remedies for your garden's health.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last but not least, make friends with your garden. Get to know as much as you can about the it will share with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5881263972199519860?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/5881263972199519860/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/12/il-sorriso-del-giardino.html#comment-form' title='4 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5881263972199519860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5881263972199519860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/12/il-sorriso-del-giardino.html' title='il sorriso del giardino'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TQT9cMOjxlI/AAAAAAAAAd0/sWW7j6BblPI/s72-c/winter%2Bgrasses%2528c%2529sergiodimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-7632462616348084881</id><published>2010-12-01T12:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-03T14:23:23.388-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='il respiro di Gaia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the breath of Gaia'/><title type='text'>a garden in town</title><content type='html'>L'Albero di Zelkova, così ricco per i miei sensi, freddo di neve, bagnato, tutto lucciccante nella sera. E il Parco silenzioso, deserto, tutto per me. C'erano, è vero, diversi operai, nonostante il buio, intenti ad allestire le bancaralle e i vari diversivi per le prossime festività. Intere squadre, tutti affaccendati nella luce artificiale, a tirar su strutture e pedane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Zelkova tree, such a wealth for all of my senses, soaken cold with snow, shimmering in the evening light. And the Park, silent, with almost no people around, allowing me freedom. There were, yes, some workmen, albeit the darkness, engaged in raising stalls and playgrounds for the upcoming festivities. They were working in the artificial light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi dirigo verso il Cerchio dei Tigli, in cerca di raccoglimento. "Racconta delle storie su di noi!" - "E come faccio?" - "Frequentaci e le storie nasceranno, spontaneamente"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I walk along towards the Circle of Lime Trees, looking for some tranquillity. "Tell some tales about us" - "Are you joking? How can I?" - "Visit on a regular base and tales will arise, spontaneously"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La preghiera agli Alberi del Parco - "Perché non vengo qui ogni volta che posso?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A prayer for Trees in the Park - "Why don't I come here every time I could?"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alberi, chiamatemi voi! quando mi perdo, quando sono distratto - tornatemi alla memoria, fate sì che mi accorga di voi, ovunque io sia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Will you call me, trees? when I get lost, when I wander with no purpose - come back to my senses, make me realize that you're there, wherever I may be.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'incontro con un luogo speciale - che ci faccia sentire bene e a nostro agio quando lo frequentiamo - può traformarsi in una preziosa occasione per conoscere un pezzetto di mondo là fuori e portarlo dentro di noi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A meeting with a special place - some place where you feel good and at ease when you're there - can turn into a wonderful opportunity of getting to know something the world out there and taking it inside of yourself.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A coltivare una relazione con questo luogo poi, incontrandolo regolarmente e prestando attenzione alle sue atmosfere e alle sue forme, a come mutano nel tempo e a come si trasformano ciclicamente durante il corso dell'anno, può capitarci a volte che siano dei pezzetti di noi a venirci incontro dall'esterno...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In growing a relationship with such a place, in becoming acquainted with it by bringing attention to its colours and shapes and its mood, and the way it changes throughout the year in a cyclical way, it may happen that parts of us will come towards us from the outside for a change.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545834544502643730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 239px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TPbDIpgrnBI/AAAAAAAAAdM/swRHCnXdfoA/s320/i%2Bdodici%2Btigli%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-7632462616348084881?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/7632462616348084881/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/12/garden-in-town.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7632462616348084881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7632462616348084881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/12/garden-in-town.html' title='a garden in town'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TPbDIpgrnBI/AAAAAAAAAdM/swRHCnXdfoA/s72-c/i%2Bdodici%2Btigli%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-2882825799792882020</id><published>2010-11-28T15:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T12:33:52.489-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silenzio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via delle parole'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of words'/><title type='text'>A widespread silence</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TPLse96TlXI/AAAAAAAAAdE/61O1JcRfcbg/s1600/Paula%2BMarchini%2BSenatore.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544754108005848434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TPLse96TlXI/AAAAAAAAAdE/61O1JcRfcbg/s320/Paula%2BMarchini%2BSenatore.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;© Picture by Paula Marchini Senatore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Se grazie a un miracolo molta gente fosse costretta a pronunciare solo parole che corrispondano con esattezza ai fatti, si avrebbe un diffusissimo silenzio in tutto il mondo, perché la maggior parte di quanto oggi viene detto non corrisponde appunto a fatti constatati, ma esprime le più diverse opinioni, le più diverse passioni. (R. Steiner) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If by a miracle a lot of people were to utter only those words that exactly matched with facts, there would be a widespread silence all over the globe, since most of is being said today does not match with verified facts, but just reflects the most diverse opinions, the most diverse passions. (R. Steiner)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-2882825799792882020?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/2882825799792882020/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/11/widespread-silence.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2882825799792882020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2882825799792882020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/11/widespread-silence.html' title='A widespread silence'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TPLse96TlXI/AAAAAAAAAdE/61O1JcRfcbg/s72-c/Paula%2BMarchini%2BSenatore.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-2306910180541062276</id><published>2010-11-21T10:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T11:49:02.829-08:00</updated><title type='text'>La via del giardino</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TOlncbjb7CI/AAAAAAAAAc0/V9gQUqODCBw/s1600/mughetto%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542074554586491938" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 230px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TOlncbjb7CI/AAAAAAAAAc0/V9gQUqODCBw/s320/mughetto%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Oggi da una mia cliente, ho avuto la percezione che occupandomi del suo giardino stessi altresì prendendomi cura del suo benessere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Osservando il suo giardino, &lt;em&gt;essendo&lt;/em&gt; nel suo giardino, ascolto ciò che le piace, il tipo di sistemazione, le piante e le difficoltà che incontra nel mantenerlo. Facendole delle domande per farle prendere coscienza di come vede il suo giardino e che cosa le piacerebe fare affinchè si avvicini sempre di più al suo ideale, percepisco il suo atteggiamento più generale verso la sua vita, i suoi entusiasmi e le sue delusioni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Delle rose mi ha detto che non le interessano, possiamo estirparle a parte quella al centro, che è diventata selvatica - la vedo, così florida in mezzo alle due ibride sgangherate, tutta fiera dei suoi cinorrodi - e fa tutte queste bacche e le "rose canine" - le ha evocate facendo un gesto fra indice e pollice delle due mani, come a strofinare delicatamente un petalo rosato e come le si illuminava il viso nel ricordo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quando le ho spiegato il nostro approccio alla potatura, un modo di contenere e accompagnare l'accrescimento delle piante affinché possano convivere fra loro e all'interno del giardino, mi ha detto che lei predilige la forma libera a quella sempre ritoccata. Allora le ho accennato di come si tratta di trovare un equilibrio fra il portamento selvatico e quello troppo artificioso e addomesticato "perché il giardino non è una foresta..." - "Peccato!" mi ha risposto. E quanta nostalgia in quella parola.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In un angolino del giardino ho pensato per lei a un sottobosco di mughetti e aglio orsino ai piedi di un gruppetto di betulle lasciate crescere molto spontaneamente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-2306910180541062276?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/2306910180541062276/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/11/la-via-del-giardino.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2306910180541062276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2306910180541062276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/11/la-via-del-giardino.html' title='La via del giardino'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TOlncbjb7CI/AAAAAAAAAc0/V9gQUqODCBw/s72-c/mughetto%2528c%2529sergio%2Bdimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-839537568056850286</id><published>2010-10-31T12:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-01T05:08:17.789-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earth healing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte di guarire la terra'/><title type='text'>Incontro d'albero</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TM3OiZ4FmEI/AAAAAAAAAcE/wxKc4y6XD78/s1600/abbracciod%27albero%28c%29Sergio+Dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TM3OiZ4FmEI/AAAAAAAAAcE/wxKc4y6XD78/s320/abbracciod%27albero%28c%29Sergio+Dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534306607565215810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Gli alberi non svolgono solo funzioni biologiche, gli alberi più vecchi  influenzano il paesaggio, sul piano emotivo e delle energie sottili,  aiutando altri esseri a trovare un luogo adatto dove sviluppare la loro  attività"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con queste parole, &lt;a href="http://amarelaterra.blogspot.com/"&gt;Francisco&lt;/a&gt; ci ha invitato a fare una passeggiata sabato mattina per incontrare alcuni alberi significativi per il territorio di Treviso. Abbiamo esplorato l'interno di una quercia presso la Chiesa di Sant'Anna e Santa Maria del Rovere, ci siamo lasciati trasportare dalla sua effervescenza! Abbiamo reso omaggio a un'antica farnia, abbracciandola in tre, e ci siamo immedesimati nel suo ruolo di guardiana e protettrice del luogo. Quindi a Villa Margherita siamo stati intrattenuti da un platano sulla riva del laghetto e da una singolare coppia, costituita da un cedro e da un carpino, sul limitare del grande parterre della cedraia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La capacità di incontrare un albero sul piano emotivo nasce da un allenamento all'esercizio del silenzio interiore e dell'ascolto attento di come entra in risonanza con noi tutto ciò con cui noi stessi entriamo in relazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se ne avete l'occasione, prendetevi del tempo da trascorrere in compagnia di un albero - o di un gruppo di alberi -  in questi giorni in cui si stanno risvegliando all'autunno. Osservate il processo che stanno attraversando, sentite come si liberano di ciò che fra poco sarebbe loro superfluo, ascoltate il rumore delle foglie che cadono sulla terra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'è negli alberi un senso infallibile della loro missione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TM6mQ3-15-I/AAAAAAAAAcc/XnWiUfuUe-Y/s1600/il+dono%28c%29Sergio+DImartino.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 108px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TM6mQ3-15-I/AAAAAAAAAcc/XnWiUfuUe-Y/s400/il+dono%28c%29Sergio+DImartino.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534543800920565730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Trees do not just fulfil biological functions. More mature ones act upon the subtle energetic planes of a landscape on an emotional level, helping other beings to find a proper place where to grow and develop their own activities"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;These words are from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://amarelaterra.blogspot.com/"&gt;Francisco&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'s invitation for a walk around the territory of Treviso to discover the functions of ancient and significant trees that live there. Thus we ventured in the exploration of a hollow tree standing in front of the Church of St. Ann and St. Mary of the Oak-tree, we were surprised by its sparkling activity! It took three of us together to pay our respects to an ancient pedunculate oak by embracing it, we explored its role as a guardian of the place. At Villa Margherita we then met a plane tree standing at the edge of a pond and couple of trees, a Deodar cedar and a hornbeam, at the edge of the orangerie lawn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The possibility of meeting a tree on an emotional level is grounded in the costant exercise of interior silence and the careful attention we pay to the way everything we relate to ultimately resonates within ourselves&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;These days, if you have a chance to, spare some time to spend in the company of trees that are awakening to the autumn impulse. Pay attention to the process they are undergoing, feel the way they manage to get rid of what would soon become a hindrance to them, hear the sound of leaves falling on the ground.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Trees have a faultless sense of their mission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-839537568056850286?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/839537568056850286/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/10/incontro-dalbero.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/839537568056850286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/839537568056850286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/10/incontro-dalbero.html' title='Incontro d&apos;albero'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TM3OiZ4FmEI/AAAAAAAAAcE/wxKc4y6XD78/s72-c/abbracciod%27albero%28c%29Sergio+Dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5419882307749858943</id><published>2010-10-17T11:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T01:16:27.196-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecologia profonda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via dei fiori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deep ecology'/><title type='text'>Let yourself be known</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TLtEs_3W-zI/AAAAAAAAAbY/TFQHvzetwlQ/s1600/blooming+amongst+lichens+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529088507375975218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TLtEs_3W-zI/AAAAAAAAAbY/TFQHvzetwlQ/s200/blooming+amongst+lichens+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I had often heard that early Autumn can be like a second Spring in Mediterranean environments and now I know. A few days on the island of Formentera and I was embraced by this unexpected blooming festival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Avevo sentito dire altre volte che l'autunno è come una sec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;onda primavera in certi ambienti del Mediterraneo e adesso ne ho la prova. Qualche giorno sull'isola di Formentera e sono stato avvolto da questo spettacolo inaspettatato di fioriture.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were flowers on the side of the main roads and flowers blooming in the meadows and across the narrow paths that run through the salterns. And I was really taken aback by the sight of flowers springing as if out of bare rock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;C'erano fiori a bordo delle strade principali e altri che si aprivano negli incolti e fra gli stretti sentieri che si insinuano nelle saline. E più di tutto mi ha colpito la vista di fiori che sembravano sbucare direttamente dalla roccia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TLtS3GzAxtI/AAAAAAAAAbg/BX9a_DCndsA/s1600/companions+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529104074198271698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TLtS3GzAxtI/AAAAAAAAAbg/BX9a_DCndsA/s200/companions+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We had just parked our car by the Lighthouse of the Mola when, from a distance, I saw the ground sprinkled with white and pink flakes of I-know-not-what. They looked like confetti at best or some kind of litter at worst, carelessly left about the place. Though what I first had thought on seeing them out of the car window was - how wonderful if these, gently spreading over the land here, were all flowers? and they were!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Non appena parcheggiata l'auto presso il Faro della Mola, a una certa distanza ho visto il suolo ricoperto da uno strato di bianco e di rosa che non riuscivo a identificare. Sembravano coriandoli o, alla peggio, cartacce abbandonate in giro. Eppure, non appena le avevo viste dal finestrino della macchina mi ero detto - possibile che siano fiori, sparsi così e delicati sulla terra? e lo erano!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TLtZbHv9jCI/AAAAAAAAAbo/iXZOz0N3cNo/s1600/over+the+land+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529111289998969890" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TLtZbHv9jCI/AAAAAAAAAbo/iXZOz0N3cNo/s200/over+the+land+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;They were living their existence amongst crowds of oblivious people coming there to visit the Lighthouse. So, why should the Island put on such a graceful new garden every year if nobody noticed?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Erano davvero fiori, e trascorrono la loro vita in mezzo a turisti non curanti, arrivati fin lì per il Faro soltanto. E perché l'Isola dovrebbe inscenare un nuovo giardino così delicato ogni anno se nessuno se ne accorgesse? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In no time I realized I was being seized again in my obsession of "identifying" the plants I was seeing. I was so surprised and taken aback by the way the plants were growing out of the ground, I did not realize I may already know the family and genus this plant belonged to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Ben presto mi sono reso conto di essere nuovamente preda alla mia mania di dare un nome, "identificare", le piante in questione. Infatti, colto di sorpresa e spiazzato dall'ambiente in cui la pianta fioriva, mi è sfuggita completamente la possibilità di conoscerne già la famiglia e il genere di appartenenza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is a name, if compared with the actual experience we can have of the object it identifies? There are times when, in order to find out its name, we lose sight of the experience itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;he importanza ha un nome, rispetto all'esperienza che possiamo fare della cosa che identifica? Certe volte, per andare dietro al nome che la definisce perdiamo il valore&lt;br /&gt;dell'esperienza stessa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Next time&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;you meet a plant which you do not know, let IT identify you for a change! which kind of human are you? Let yourself be known&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La prossima volta che incontri una pianta di cui non conosci il nome, lascia che sia lei a identificare te per una volta. Che tipo di umano sei? Làsciati riconoscere da lei.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt;Let the plant itself observe you and feel you in its energy field&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt;. Let it come closer to you, be naked in front of it as it is in front of you, expose yourself to its organs of perception and feel its qualities by letting it taste yours. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lascia che sia la pianta stessa ad osservare te e percepirti nel suo campo energetico. Lascia che si avvicini, spogliati di fronte a lei come lei è nuda dinnanzi a te, rimani esposto/a ai suoi organi di percezione e sperimenta le sue qualità lasciando che lei abbia un assaggio delle tue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5419882307749858943?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/5419882307749858943/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/10/let-yourself-be-known.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5419882307749858943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5419882307749858943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/10/let-yourself-be-known.html' title='Let yourself be known'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TLtEs_3W-zI/AAAAAAAAAbY/TFQHvzetwlQ/s72-c/blooming+amongst+lichens+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-2302233734462583418</id><published>2010-10-07T15:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-31T09:45:11.176-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the Way of the Warrior'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la Via del Guerriero'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><title type='text'>The Spirit of the Dojo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TK5Ltb9PyrI/AAAAAAAAAbA/SLcvHUuR9Zg/s1600/my+dojo+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TK5Ltb9PyrI/AAAAAAAAAbA/SLcvHUuR9Zg/s320/my+dojo+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525437036801018546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The  word "dojo" comes from the Japanese martial arts. "Dojo" refers to a  place, a time and a community of learners committed to supporting one  another's personal growth through a process of mindful skill building.  It was originally used to designate a place where people came together  to practice meditation (John Mark Rozendaal).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To me it is a fortress, a castle, a temple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La parola "dojo" arriva dalle arti marziali giapponesi. "Dojo" si riferisce a un luogo, a un tempo e a una comunità di apprendisti determinati a supportarsi a vicenda nella loro crescita personale attraverso un processo cosciente di costruzione eaffinamento delle proprie abilità. Originariamente il termine veniva usato per designare il luogo dove le persone si ritrovavano insieme per praticare la meditazione (John Mark Rozendaal).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Per me è una fortezza, un castello, un tempio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-2302233734462583418?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/2302233734462583418/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-dojo.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2302233734462583418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2302233734462583418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-dojo.html' title='The Spirit of the Dojo'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TK5Ltb9PyrI/AAAAAAAAAbA/SLcvHUuR9Zg/s72-c/my+dojo+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-8579222489662355828</id><published>2010-09-30T12:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-04T01:39:21.813-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Carving a Cosmogramme</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKTnjL5yYLI/AAAAAAAAAag/r8GgEQ9UX40/s1600/carving%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKTnjL5yYLI/AAAAAAAAAag/r8GgEQ9UX40/s320/carving%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522793634739675314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Quindi siamo passati all'azione. Dopo una prova per prendere confidenza con la tecnica, eseguita su un disegno originale elaborato da &lt;a href="http://www.markopogacnik.com/"&gt;Marko Pogacnik&lt;/a&gt; durante un &lt;a href="http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/drawing-cosmogramme.html"&gt;seminario a Londra&lt;/a&gt;, ciascuno di noi ha iniziato a scolpire il suo cosmogramma. Prima di dare inizio al lavoro, ci siamo connessi alla pietra che giaceva dinnanzi a noi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pietra di Portland, una pietra calcarea di circa centocinquanta milioni di anni fa, un era relativamente recente in termini geologici. Per intenderci, quando &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LateJurassicGlobal.jpg"&gt;presumibilmente&lt;/a&gt; quello che sarebbe diventato il continente africano era ancora fuso all'attuale America del Sud, la placca europea non era ben distinguibile e il futuro continente asiatico assomigliava molto a un drago pronto spiccare un balzo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una pietra formatasi per stratificazione sui fondali marini in seguito alla precipitazione di carbonato di calcio e del suo accumulo e compattazione insieme al deposito dei resti di sostanza organica derivante da animali e vegetali acquatici in via di decomposizione. Una pietra, dunque,   che racchiude al suo interno, una memoria minerale e organica inarrivabile per la nostra mente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La connessione, a livello intuitivo, ci ha permesso di entrare in risonanza e unirci al mezzo espressivo. Da quel momento si può affermare che non eravamo più da soli a scolpire ma era la pietra a suggerirci come procedere. Io, ad esempio, ho cominciato a scolpire all'esterno dell'area circolare del cosmogramma, con una convinzione e una sicurezza che si sono rivelate sorpendenti quando mi sono reso conto che quello che avevo appena fatto era assolutamente "sbagliato".  Grazie a Lizzie, non ho perso né la calma né la concentrazione e qualche minuto dopo è "apparsa" una nuova parte del disegno che voleva manifestarsi cosicché il cerchio centrale galleggia adesso su una bolla a due anse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKeWC6hnACI/AAAAAAAAAao/Ze6tolVoaZQ/s1600/experiencing+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKeWC6hnACI/AAAAAAAAAao/Ze6tolVoaZQ/s320/experiencing+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523548444807331874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tutti i processi fin qui descritti di esplorazione del territorio, elaborazione di un disegno e scultura del cosmogramma sono nati e si sono sviluppati in seno a un cerchio, in un contesto di gruppo. Un gruppo di umani che si è ritrovato con l'intento di entrare in contatto con un territorio, lasciarsi coinvolgere dalle sue dinamiche e facilitare il fluire delle energie in esso presenti attraverso la creazione di disegni comprensibili a livello intuitivo da parte di tutti i suoi abitanti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il ticchettio della mazzetta sullo scalpello e dello scalpello sulla pietra, ripetuto per tante persone quante eravamo all'opera insieme, è stato la musica che ci ha accompagnato mentre eravamo tesminoni del rivelarsi e del prender forma del Cosmogramma nel suo viaggio dal regno dei pensieri e delle emozioni alle tre dimensioni della materia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we set to work. We started getting confident with the new media and learning the basic techniques by carving one cosmogramme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.markopogacnik.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Marko Pogacnik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt; had&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt; been drawing during the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/drawing-cosmogramme.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;London Workshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt; and then each one of us started with their own cosmogrammes. Right before starting we tuned in with the stone that was lying in front of u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt; &lt;i&gt;Portland stone, a more or less 150 million years old limestone, so quite a young one in terms of geologic periods. When what would have most likely become Africa was still one thing with Southern America &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LateJurassicGlobal.jpg"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;to get the picture&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;, Europe was not ye&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;t configured and the Asiatic plate looked very much like a crouching dragon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This kind of stone formed in a marine environment due to the precipitation of calcium carbonate&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;on the sea floor and its sedimentation along with organic detritus from animals and plants. So this stone is packed with biological memory and a whole lot of organic intelligence we can harly imagine.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKkc9C20Z3I/AAAAAAAAAa4/efsBLeRsnuQ/s1600/group+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKkc9C20Z3I/AAAAAAAAAa4/efsBLeRsnuQ/s320/group+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523978253011019634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tuning in, at an intuitive level, granted us a sort of connection with our creative media. From that moment on we can say that we were not alone in our carving effort but the stone itself was suggesting to each one of us how to proceed. For insta&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;nce, I started out by carving exactly outside of the circle of my drawing right where I was not at all supposed to!!! Yet, thanks to Lizzie one of our facilitators, I kept calm and concentrated and a little afterwards a new section of the drawing eme&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;rged that meant to be carved on the stone. And now the central circle floats on a squeezed bubble.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;All the different experiences we've been going through, from exploring the grounds to designing a drawing and finally carving a cosmogram&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;me, were part of a group process and were conceived and born within a Circle. A group of people who met with the intention of getting in touch with a land, getting involved with its dynamics, trying to understand its needs and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;facilitate the flow of its energies by means of drawings intuitively understandable by all of its inhabitants.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKkcliZxL1I/AAAAAAAAAaw/aI67EXeDtSk/s1600/HHillSept2010_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKkcliZxL1I/AAAAAAAAAaw/aI67EXeDtSk/s320/HHillSept2010_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523977849162248018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The light sound of hammer upon chisel and chisel upon rock, echoed for so many times as the people at work, was the music that accompanied us while carving together and soon became a familiar and cosy motive. The perfect soundtrack for the gradually unveiling and coming into form of the Cosmogramme from the realm of thoughts and emotions to three dimensional matter.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-8579222489662355828?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/8579222489662355828/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/carving-cosmogramme.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8579222489662355828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8579222489662355828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/carving-cosmogramme.html' title='Carving a Cosmogramme'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKTnjL5yYLI/AAAAAAAAAag/r8GgEQ9UX40/s72-c/carving%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5398108051850343945</id><published>2010-09-30T11:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-30T12:35:58.342-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wildlife gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pond'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stagno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earth healing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte di guarire la terra'/><title type='text'>Birth of a cosmogramme</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKTa_3lroMI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/XtJus285wAg/s1600/surfing+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKTa_3lroMI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/XtJus285wAg/s320/surfing+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522779833851683010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Così mi sono dedicato all'esplorazione del laghetto, prendendomi il tempo che sentivo necessario per assaporare le mie sensazioni, giocando a focalizzare l'attenzione ora al posto nel suo insieme, ora ai più piccoli particolari. Stando in piedi o procedendo sdraiato, camminando o sostando, osservando la terra, l'acqua e l'aria e cercando di respirare ciò che accadeva intorno a me. Allora ho fatto qualche memorabile incontro: con un'ortica, coi fiori di menta e con le spighe arcuate delle ultime crocosmie... e con una bellezza acquatica che si erge col suo stelo dal pelo dell'acqua per poi incurvarsi dolcemente nelle foglie. Mi sarei ricordato di questa pianta una volta completato il disegno del cosmogramma. Come questo sia avvenuto, non lo so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;So I went on exploring the pond area, taking my time to be with my sensations and the way I was feeling, having fun alternatively focusing my attention to the whole picture and to single details. Either walking or coming to a halt, whether standing on my feet or lying on the ground, observing what was going on up in the trees and through the grasses, and on the suface of the water. Trying to breath in what was going on all around me. And thus I had some remarkable meetings: with a nettle, with peppermint flowers, with the gracefully arched spikes of a late blooming crocosmia...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and some unknown beauty with leafstalks uprising from the waters and gently curving leaves.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I would remember about this plant once the drawing of the cosmogramme was completed. How this was accomplished, I do not know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKTe4P_knFI/AAAAAAAAAaY/rkKOyx0aXHU/s1600/cosmogramme+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKTe4P_knFI/AAAAAAAAAaY/rkKOyx0aXHU/s320/cosmogramme+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522784101010283602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5398108051850343945?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/5398108051850343945/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/birth-of-cosmogramme.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5398108051850343945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5398108051850343945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/birth-of-cosmogramme.html' title='Birth of a cosmogramme'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKTa_3lroMI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/XtJus285wAg/s72-c/surfing+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5450506041766983056</id><published>2010-09-27T15:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-30T12:37:27.381-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earth healing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte di guarire la terra'/><title type='text'>Designing a cosmogramme</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKOzWjfYh4I/AAAAAAAAAZw/vUOyUjQlT_A/s1600/the+pond+area+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKOzWjfYh4I/AAAAAAAAAZw/vUOyUjQlT_A/s320/the+pond+area+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522454768151725954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Esplorare, disegnare, scolpire, sentire. Creare un Cosmogramma comporta mettere in gioco più parti di noi e prestare un'attenzione speciale all'ambiente che ci circonda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Exploring, drawin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;g, carving, experiencing. Creating a Cosmogramme is about engaging different parts of ourselves a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;nd giving one's full attention to our environment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo il primo giorno di visita "guidata" e un contatto con il posto, Hoathly Hill si è dischiusa come un fiore e ciascuno di noi si è avventurato in una esplorazione personale dell'area alla ricerca di un luogo speciale per sé, le cui caratteristiche risuonassero particolarmente per lui/lei. A me è accaduto con la zona dello stagno. Istintivamente, sono stato  attratto qui dalla selvatichezza del luogo, dalla sua aria un po'  appartata e tuttavia per nulla inospitale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;After spending our first day on a "guided" tour of the place and getting in touch with it, Hoathly Hill opened up like a flower for us and we ventured in a personal exploration of the grounds in search for a spot especially meaningful for each on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;e of us.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;This spot happened to be the pond area for me, I was drawn here instictively by a certain wilderness and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a secluded feel about the place though not inhospitable in any way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKOzlRFVAcI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/yQqneBU8tS8/s1600/the+pond+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKOzlRFVAcI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/yQqneBU8tS8/s320/the+pond+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522455020908642754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A trascorrerci un po' di tempo, ho intuito il disegno originale delle piantumazioni e il modo in cui nel tempo sono state inglobate dalle specie spontanee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;After spending some time there, the original planting design became clear and the way, in time, wild species blended in with the more ornamental ones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il quadro finale che ne esce è quel misto di selvatico e ornamentale, di curato e lasciato a se stesso che fa di un giardino quel luogo magico in cui l'umano si incontra con gli elementi per creare qualcosa che prima non c'era... qualcosa che presto scomparirebbe se l'umano uscisse di scena.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The resulting picture is that combination of wild and tame, of ornamental and spontaneous that makes a garden such a magical place where the human factor me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ets the elements and co-creates with them something that wasn't there before... something that would soon disappear if the human element left the scene. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKOz9vExUjI/AAAAAAAAAaI/4jjZZiXrFoo/s1600/by+the+pond+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKOz9vExUjI/AAAAAAAAAaI/4jjZZiXrFoo/s320/by+the+pond+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522455441276228146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Aprendomi alle sensazioni che il luogo suscitava in me, hanno cominciato a delinearsi forme e figure nell'intrico di foglie e rami. E un tema. Le energie assurgenti e quelle che si piegano, tutte fluttuanti. Che cos'è la volontà? e come possiamo esercitarla senza diventare prepotenti?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Opening myself up to the impressions this place evoked inside of me, forms and figures began to emerge within the intricacies of branches and leaves. And a theme. The up-surging and the bending energies, all of them flowing. What is will? and how do we exercise our will without becoming domeneering? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be continued...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5450506041766983056?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/5450506041766983056/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/creating-cosmogramme.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5450506041766983056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5450506041766983056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/creating-cosmogramme.html' title='Designing a cosmogramme'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKOzWjfYh4I/AAAAAAAAAZw/vUOyUjQlT_A/s72-c/the+pond+area+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-2676429140302260560</id><published>2010-09-22T15:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-30T12:38:21.493-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english gardens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community gardens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><title type='text'>Hoathly Hill, una città giardino</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJuc6scTlPI/AAAAAAAAAXo/1W58-LxjEBo/s1600/Hoathly+Hill+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJuc6scTlPI/AAAAAAAAAXo/1W58-LxjEBo/s200/Hoathly+Hill+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520178300448904434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ti dài un tempo e uno spazio. Scegli di aderire a un &lt;a href="http://www.earthenergynetwork.co.uk/London.html"&gt;progetto&lt;/a&gt;. Fase uno: imparare a scolpire un Cosmogramma. Senza farlo apposta c'era un giardino lungo il percorso. L'appuntamento è a Hoathly Hill, un villaggio residenziale a sud di Londra, nato da un'esperienza di comune nel 1972. Quarant'anni di storia. Quarant'anni di  condivisioni, idealismo, scazzi, e lavoro, parole, nascite, morti. E un giardino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il giardino sta al centro. E si insinua fra le abitazioni, sconfina nel grande prato aperto a sud e si confonde col bosco ai margini della proprietà.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il giardino è l'occasione che questa comunità si è data per dare coesione all'abitato e offrire un'opportunità a tutti di conoscersi più direttamente, lavorando insieme alla sua manutenzione. Già, perché non ci sono giardinieri che vengono qui dall'esterno per provvedere alla cura di questo giardino. Quello che vedo è il frutto della collaborazione di quanti vivono in questo posto, è il loro modo di rinsaldare il legame che li unisce a questa terra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJuidWQttEI/AAAAAAAAAXw/pWJQhMUbdEQ/s1600/Herb+Garden+at+Hoathly+Hill+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJuidWQttEI/AAAAAAAAAXw/pWJQhMUbdEQ/s200/Herb+Garden+at+Hoathly+Hill+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520184393348265026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Il giardino delle erbe aromatiche e delle officinali ha la forma di un pentagono attraversato da due vialetti che si incrociano al centro sotto un gazebo coperto di rose sarmentose. Qui sotto, su una panca, l'ortolano della comunità deposita le frutta e gli ortaggi appena colti dall'orto comune. Ciascuna famiglia e membro della comunità può usufruire anche di un appezzamento personale da coltivare. L'unico vincolo è quello di attenersi a un'agricoltura naturale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJun3weNtHI/AAAAAAAAAX4/N0fYMXYewQM/s1600/Veg+Garden,+Hoathly+Hill+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJun3weNtHI/AAAAAAAAAX4/N0fYMXYewQM/s200/Veg+Garden,+Hoathly+Hill+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520190344618947698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La comunità è nata ispirandosi ai principi della filosofia di Rudolf Steiner e questi sono ancora palpabili nell'aria. Nel villaggio si trovano uno studio di scultura, un asilo e un centro diurno per persone diversamente abili. A cura di quest'ultimo la realizzazione di un giardino, di cui ho potuto assistere alle fasi iniziali, alla memoria di un vasaio recentemente scomparso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oltre alla zona degli orti, da cui si gode una vista sull'adiacente villaggio di West Hoathly, il giardino comprende una zona a bosco; il "Quadrato" - una zona a prato circondata da una bordura di rose e due bordure miste di erbacee perenni; un altro giardino dedicato alla memoriadi quanti qui sono morti; la radura dei falò; il giardino dello stagno; e "15 Acri".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJupLKL1sNI/AAAAAAAAAYA/Z8sRAhJxZb0/s1600/15+Acres,+Hoathly+Hill+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJupLKL1sNI/AAAAAAAAAYA/Z8sRAhJxZb0/s200/15+Acres,+Hoathly+Hill+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520191777450340562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;E' questa la grande prateria che si affaccia a meridione. Qui, quando hai fortuna, può capitarti di incontrare un cavallo bianco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKD5quUwDKI/AAAAAAAAAYI/UmlfULFYGTo/s1600/dawn+at+hoathly+hill+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKD5quUwDKI/AAAAAAAAAYI/UmlfULFYGTo/s200/dawn+at+hoathly+hill+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521687655541116066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You embrace a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.earthenergynetwork.co.uk/London.html"&gt;project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You take some time and travel some place. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Step 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;: learning how to carve a Cosmogram&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;me. On your way, and believe me without planning on your side&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; you find a garden. Your meeting point is at Hoathly Hill. This is a residential community, south of London, born as a commune in 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;972. Almost forty years old. Forty years of ideals, sharing, fights and work; thoughts, births and deaths. And a garden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The garden is central. And it runs through the houses,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; it spills over a huge open field to the South and it merges with the woods at the edge of the property.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKECsJAapII/AAAAAAAAAYY/BXz4OEJXb50/s1600/the+gazebo+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKECsJAapII/AAAAAAAAAYY/BXz4OEJXb50/s200/the+gazebo+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521697575488103554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;This garden is one way this Community chose to link the buildings together and to offer an opportunity to everyone to meet and get to know each other more directly, while working together at its maintenance. In fact, ther&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;e are no ou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;tside gardeners taking care of such a jewel. What you can see here is the result of the people who are living here cooperating to take care of this bit of land and thus strengthen their connection with it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKEEEej0KxI/AAAAAAAAAYg/aQ-pAaZrvXM/s1600/compost+heap+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKEEEej0KxI/AAAAAAAAAYg/aQ-pAaZrvXM/s200/compost+heap+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521699093102209810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The herb and officinal plan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ts garden is in the shape of an irregular pentagram crossed by two paths that meet up in the centre underthe shade of a gazebo covered in roses. Fruit and v&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;egetables, as soon as they are picked, are left he&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;re on a bench by the community orchard keeper. Each family and member of the community can make use of a personal plot to grow vegetables and flowers in. The only rule is to stick to organic agriculture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKEFrMX7qVI/AAAAAAAAAYo/SjwyxQwiRzA/s1600/the+garden+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKEFrMX7qVI/AAAAAAAAAYo/SjwyxQwiRzA/s200/the+garden+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521700857747056978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Community was set up on the insights of Rudolf Steiner and you can still feel it. Private initiatives within the Community include a sculpture studio, a kinderga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;rten and a day centre for people with special needs.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A new garden is now being created by this centre to the memory of a recently dead pot maker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKEIHH_CwmI/AAAAAAAAAYw/NjMzxY2stg8/s1600/White+Horse+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TKEIHH_CwmI/AAAAAAAAAYw/NjMzxY2stg8/s200/White+Horse+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521703536628515426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The garden is divided into different rooms, apart from the vegetable plots and herb garden, you can find wooded areas; the "Square" - a huge lawn enclosed between ancient walls and rose and perennials mixed borders; another memorial garden by ancient yew trees; a garden for communal bonfires; the pond area; and "15 Acres".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;This is a huge field facing south and if you're lucky enough you're going to meet a white horse here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-2676429140302260560?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/2676429140302260560/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/ti-dai-un-tempo-e-uno-spazio.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2676429140302260560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2676429140302260560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/ti-dai-un-tempo-e-uno-spazio.html' title='Hoathly Hill, una città giardino'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJuc6scTlPI/AAAAAAAAAXo/1W58-LxjEBo/s72-c/Hoathly+Hill+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-7376282693784870345</id><published>2010-09-20T12:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-22T12:59:31.809-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='terrazzo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roof garden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><title type='text'>Summer's end</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJfTvuuM8UI/AAAAAAAAAXA/Laq7zuO419Q/s1600/anemone,+ipomea+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJfTvuuM8UI/AAAAAAAAAXA/Laq7zuO419Q/s200/anemone,+ipomea+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519112685314961730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You spend some time on your terrace, gardening, this afternoon. It's a glorious day after yesterday's rainstorm. The weather's fine and warm and every tiny leaf is shimmering, bathing in the sunshine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Passi un po' di tempo sul terrazzo, oggi pomeriggio, a sistemare il giardino. E' una giornata stupenda, dopo l'acquazzone di ieri. Il tempo è bello e fa caldo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; e tutte le foglie brillano, bagnate dalla luce del sole.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJfVcJysMnI/AAAAAAAAAXg/4KUAxRVcjuQ/s1600/perilla+frutescens,+cotinus+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJfVcJysMnI/AAAAAAAAAXg/4KUAxRVcjuQ/s200/perilla+frutescens,+cotinus+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519114548007416434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You put a bamboo stick in a pot beside your perilla's stem, to help her stand upright after yesterday's storm has flattened it.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJfTL23_LbI/AAAAAAAAAWw/JP5N_Rdm1ZY/s1600/anemone,+acer+campestre+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You rake loads of berries from the scarlet firethorn bushes you meant to prune.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Metti una cannetta di bambù in un vaso vicino alla perilla, per raddrizzarla dopo il temporale di ieri. Raccogli una caterva di bacche dai cespugli di piracanta che volevi potare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJfT_agcS9I/AAAAAAAAAXI/V_31qaf9N4k/s1600/anemone,+acer+campestre+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJfT_agcS9I/AAAAAAAAAXI/V_31qaf9N4k/s200/anemone,+acer+campestre+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519112954766445522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's that time of the year, not quite Summer anymore, not yet Autumn - starlings in the sky, blackbirds chasing each  other among leaves, late Summer flowers blooming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;E' quel periodo dell'anno, non più estate, ma non ancora autunno - gli storni si radunano in cielo, i merli si inseguono fra le foglie, le fioriture di tarda estate si mettono in mostra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-7376282693784870345?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/7376282693784870345/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/summers-end.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7376282693784870345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7376282693784870345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/summers-end.html' title='Summer&apos;s end'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TJfTvuuM8UI/AAAAAAAAAXA/Laq7zuO419Q/s72-c/anemone,+ipomea+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-8096404218897157875</id><published>2010-09-04T18:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T01:36:37.405-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ornamental grasses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dan pearson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meadows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wildlife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prati'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urban nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new perennials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graminacee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community gardens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardini da sentire'/><title type='text'>Alcuni le chiamano erbacce</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIL4lk7iiCI/AAAAAAAAAV4/8RnCD8KAaBQ/s1600/Bonnington+Sq+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513242218307160098" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIL4lk7iiCI/AAAAAAAAAV4/8RnCD8KAaBQ/s320/Bonnington+Sq+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 239px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Le erbacce che una cinquantina d'anni fa avevamo scartato dal giardino, alla ricerca di una rasserenante uniformità, rientrano dal cancello principale e tornano, esuberanti, a mostrarci la loro bellezza. In questa stagione, a maturità avvenuta di capsule e spighe, si presentano eleganti e dorate, soddisfatte di aver portato a termine il loro compito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The weeds we had cast outside of our gardens some fifty years ago, looking for some kind of uniform serenity, are showing up again right at the front gate in all their vibrant and non-chalant beauty. At this time of the year, their spikes and capsules ripe, they look golden and elegant, satisfied with their accoplished task.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIL_OqmIaUI/AAAAAAAAAWA/h7GN3TS13RU/s1600/eryingium+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513249521272383810" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIL_OqmIaUI/AAAAAAAAAWA/h7GN3TS13RU/s320/eryingium+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 239px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Non è servito cercare di reprimerle in ogni modo, escluderle dalla nostra vista nel tentativo di dimenticare che il giardino - anche il giardinetto del villino di provincia, con le sue prestese di ordine e urbanità - ha le sue radici nella campagna, negli incolti, in quelle terre di mezzo dove il prato non è più prato e pure non è ancora bosco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;There&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; was no use in trying to get rid of them with all kinds of efforts, casting them out of our sight in order to forget that our gardens - even the very artificial looking ones that go with suburban houses and aspire to be all tidy and urban - have their roots in the countryside, in meadows, and in those uncertain areas where meadows end and woods start.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIQUO7kmQMI/AAAAAAAAAWI/0Vfr7_lylj4/s1600/grasses+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513554090550247618" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIQUO7kmQMI/AAAAAAAAAWI/0Vfr7_lylj4/s320/grasses+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 239px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sono tornate, trionfanti di bruni e di ori, e ci sorridono con la loro capacità di catturare e restituirci la luce del sole. Sembra che dicano, non preoccupatevi più di noi, lasciateci in un angolo del giardino, indisturbate, e sapremo stupirvi con lo spettacolo dei nostri colori, l'eleganza del nostro portamento, il profumo di un altro tempo e i nostri canti nel vento...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;They came back, triumphant with their shades of gold and brown, and smiling back to us with their unique way of catching and reflecting the light of the sun. It seems they're telling us: do not bother about us anymore, leave us alone in a corner of the garden and we will  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;not fail to delight you with the show of our colours, the elegance of our stance, our fragrance from a distant past and our songs in the wind...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIQU5fuGBxI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/R1hYYeQVSy0/s1600/il+gesto+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513554821808260882" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIQU5fuGBxI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/R1hYYeQVSy0/s320/il+gesto+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 239px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Queste immagini sono state scattate in piena città a Londra, nel giardino pubblico di &lt;a href="http://bonningtonsquaregarden.org.uk/"&gt;Bonnington Sq. Garden&lt;/a&gt;. Si tratta di un altro giardino di quartiere nato per volontà degli abitanti della zona all'inizio degli anni '90, e a tutt'oggi curato e animato dall'impegno di alcuni di loro riunitisi in una Associazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;These pictures were taken in the town of London, in the public &lt;a href="http://bonningtonsquaregarden.org.uk/"&gt;garden of Bonnington Sq.&lt;/a&gt; This is another example of co-gardening and the story of a garden that was born because of local people wanting it and now attending to it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-8096404218897157875?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/8096404218897157875/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/un-giardino-destate.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8096404218897157875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8096404218897157875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/un-giardino-destate.html' title='Alcuni le chiamano erbacce'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIL4lk7iiCI/AAAAAAAAAV4/8RnCD8KAaBQ/s72-c/Bonnington+Sq+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-4397167972994745727</id><published>2010-09-04T01:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-06T07:00:54.060-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La via dei fiori</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIIFhRb6tsI/AAAAAAAAAVo/nCFPBJ-7Wh0/s1600/GD+long+border+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIIFhRb6tsI/AAAAAAAAAVo/nCFPBJ-7Wh0/s320/GD+long+border+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512974963029227202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The borders are mixed, not herbaceous. I see no point in segregating  plants of different habit or habits. They can all help one another. So  you'll see shrubs, climbers, hardy and tender perennials, annuals and  biennials, all growing together and contributing to the overall  tapestry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is my belief that no gaps, showing bare earth, should be visible form  late May on, apart from the most recent replacement plantings. The  effect should be of a closely woven tapestry. I do not at all mind  bringing some tall plants to the border's front, so long as an open  texture allows the eye to see past them. Conversely, channels of low  growth can be allowed, at times, to run to the back of the border.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For  all the work that goes into it, I want the border to look exuberant and  uncontrived. Self-sowers, like verbascums and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Verbena bonariensis&lt;/span&gt;, help  towards this. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Christopher Lloyd)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIIG0M9SkUI/AAAAAAAAAVw/dNpptTd5Dhs/s1600/way+of+flowers+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIIG0M9SkUI/AAAAAAAAAVw/dNpptTd5Dhs/s320/way+of+flowers+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512976387756167490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Le bordure sono miste, non soltanto erbacee. Non vedo alcuna ragione nel segregare piante di diversi ordini o portamento. Insieme possono aiutarsi le une con le altre. Quindi vedrete arbusti, rampicanti, perenni rustiche e sensibili, annuali e biennali, crescere tutte quante insieme e contribuire all'effetto generale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho la ferma convinzione che, da maggio in poi, non dovrebbero esserci "buchi" che lascino vedere la terra scoperta, a parte le piante appena messe a dimoraper sostituirne altre. L'effetto dovrebbe essere quello di un arazzo fittamente intessuto. Non mi preoccupa assolutamente p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ortare alcune piante alte nella parte frontale della bordura, fintanto che il loro portamento aperto consenta allo sguardo di pasarci attraverso. Allo stesso modo, in alcuni casi, è possibile lasciar penetrare dei tunnel di crescita bassa fino al fondo della bordura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con tutta la fatica che mi costa, ci tengo che la bordura si presenti spumeggiante e libera. Alcune piante che si autodisseminano, come il tasso barbasso e la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Verbena bonariensis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; contribuiscono a questo effetto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(Crhistopher Lloyd)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Da queste affermazioni ricaviamo alcuni suggerimenti che sono estremamente utili. Uno, è possibile sperimentare in giardino, come nella vita, soluzioni alternative a quelle più ovvie, dettate dalle Accademie o dalle consuetudini, e stare a vedere che cosa succede. Per fare questo è necessario assumersi la responsabilità di quello che stiamo facendo, avere un minimo di visione di come potranno andare le cose e amare il rischio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due, le piante in generale amano &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitosociologia"&gt;stare in compagnia&lt;/a&gt; e stanno meglio, anche in giardino, crescendo le une accanto alle altre in gruppi di specie affini per esigenze ambientali e disposte in modo da proteggersi a vicenda e creare microambienti favorevoli per la crescita di ciascuna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tre, le erbe che si autodisseminano&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; siano esse specie spontanee o varietà ornamentali, possono esserci d'aiuto nel tenere coperto il terreno - la cui superficie, come avviene in condizioni normali in natura, non dovrebbe mai &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;essere nuda ed esposta ai raggi solari e altri agenti agtmosferici, piogge, venti, che ne causano l'erosione e il dilavamento delle sostanze nutrienti - nel darci informazioni preziose su cosa come e quando cresce meglio nel nostro giardino e nell'offrire protezione e nutrimento alla microfauna selvatica, contribuendo così all'equilibrio generale. Inoltre, come suggerisce Mr Christopher Lloyd, possono offrirci insaspettati effetti ornamentali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-4397167972994745727?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/4397167972994745727/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/it-is-my-belief-that-no-gaps-showing.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4397167972994745727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4397167972994745727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/09/it-is-my-belief-that-no-gaps-showing.html' title='La via dei fiori'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TIIFhRb6tsI/AAAAAAAAAVo/nCFPBJ-7Wh0/s72-c/GD+long+border+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-3988385812931215526</id><published>2010-08-30T13:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-22T13:59:55.753-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='london'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urban nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flow form fountain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='private garden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fountain'/><title type='text'>There is a fountain inside you</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THwTciJeHOI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/3hpm4JJvD1I/s1600/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THwTciJeHOI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/3hpm4JJvD1I/s320/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511301424918437090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Don't look for it outside yourself.&lt;br /&gt;You are the source of milk. Don't milk others!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a milk fountain inside you.&lt;br /&gt;Don't walk around with an empty bucket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Non cercarla fuori di te.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sei una sorgente di latte. Non spremere gli altri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;C'è una fontana di latte dentro di te.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Non andartene in giro con un secchio vuoto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Jelaluddin Balkhi, 1207-1273)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-3988385812931215526?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/3988385812931215526/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/dont-look-for-it-outside-yourself.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3988385812931215526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3988385812931215526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/dont-look-for-it-outside-yourself.html' title='There is a fountain inside you'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THwTciJeHOI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/3hpm4JJvD1I/s72-c/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-1837946633366263513</id><published>2010-08-24T14:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-29T07:08:20.284-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the garden way'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paths'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Great Dixter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via del giardino'/><title type='text'>Sentieri</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ7oad_EEI/AAAAAAAAAU4/xaNSPdyluG8/s1600/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ7oad_EEI/AAAAAAAAAU4/xaNSPdyluG8/s200/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509093809666854978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ci sono quelli lineari, che partono da un punto e ci conducono a una destinazione certa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;there are straight paths that start from somewhere and lead us to an appointed destination.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ51b4rteI/AAAAAAAAAUY/Enilc4bB_DU/s1600/compost+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ51b4rteI/AAAAAAAAAUY/Enilc4bB_DU/s200/compost+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509091834362312162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ci sono quelli che vanno curvi dove meno te lo aspetti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;there are winding ones that take us to places we could never guess.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ6ScWA1QI/AAAAAAAAAUg/jBUzq_YJvDA/s1600/ways+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ6ScWA1QI/AAAAAAAAAUg/jBUzq_YJvDA/s200/ways+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509092332701537538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ci sono quelli che ti mettono dinnanzi a una scelta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;there are some that confront us with a choice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ6pEaHZkI/AAAAAAAAAUo/wYsDiXSddPc/s1600/hedge+%28C%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ6pEaHZkI/AAAAAAAAAUo/wYsDiXSddPc/s200/hedge+%28C%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509092721413285442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;quelli che finiscono a un certo punto e dove non potrai che fermarti per ripartire in seguito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;those that end there, where we can not help but stop in order to start again later on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ7S_ZO0fI/AAAAAAAAAUw/W-sDs-TM3Ow/s1600/aranci+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 149px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ7S_ZO0fI/AAAAAAAAAUw/W-sDs-TM3Ow/s200/aranci+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509093441621905906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ci sono quelli che ti spingono ad andare oltre...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;there are some that invite us to go beyond...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ8rJDtk7I/AAAAAAAAAVA/CP3qZoR8V8M/s1600/gravel+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ8rJDtk7I/AAAAAAAAAVA/CP3qZoR8V8M/s200/gravel+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509094956044489650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;e ci sono quelli che percorriamo in altre dimensioni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and there are those we tread on in other dimensions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-1837946633366263513?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/1837946633366263513/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/sentieri.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1837946633366263513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1837946633366263513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/sentieri.html' title='Sentieri'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQ7oad_EEI/AAAAAAAAAU4/xaNSPdyluG8/s72-c/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5653080123963989482</id><published>2010-08-24T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-24T13:59:16.068-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tree hugs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='phyto-resonance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><title type='text'>abbraccio d'albero</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQx3qO5x2I/AAAAAAAAAUA/wLmObVZNlmw/s1600/abbraccio_d%27albero+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQx3qO5x2I/AAAAAAAAAUA/wLmObVZNlmw/s320/abbraccio_d%27albero+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509083076480321378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;how long since last time you were hugging a tree?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;quanto tempo dall'ultima volta che avete abbracciato un albero?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5653080123963989482?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/5653080123963989482/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/abbraccio-dalbero.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5653080123963989482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5653080123963989482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/abbraccio-dalbero.html' title='abbraccio d&apos;albero'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/THQx3qO5x2I/AAAAAAAAAUA/wLmObVZNlmw/s72-c/abbraccio_d%27albero+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-6915054535177592406</id><published>2010-08-15T11:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-24T13:52:02.459-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english gardens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Great Dixter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via dei fiori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><title type='text'>Le trapunte fiorite di Christopher Lloyd</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGgzId_RkAI/AAAAAAAAATE/OxBQkHUgLdY/s1600/arazzo+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGgzId_RkAI/AAAAAAAAATE/OxBQkHUgLdY/s200/arazzo+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505706765042421762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Visiting the gardens at Great Dixter early in May, this year, has been a privilege and a major event in my garden wanderings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First feature that struck me in the gardens were the flower beds where annuals, perennials, bulbs and shrubs all thrive together skillfully arranged and yet so natural looking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not sure whether it was the time of the year, finally coming out of a harsh winter, or the friend I was visiting the gardens with, her keen vision in matter of layered plantings, or just me because I was in England and visiting a world renowned garden I had long heard about and wished for, it is a fact that these beds had a mesmerizing quality to themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGgzh5OIHtI/AAAAAAAAATM/bW6nKXq42uY/s200/tulip+sage+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505707201849204434" border="0" /&gt;For one thing, I've never been so fond of tulips, they remind me of monotonous city centre flower-beds or container plantings and the barren ground you usually find beneath them, but - oh, my! - these ones were in such good company here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colours, shapes, textures of flowers, buds and leaves, everything contributes to the success of the final outlook. The plantings are neither too thick nor too sparse, and plants are thriving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess what really hooked me here, apart from the subtleties of colour schemes and the overwhelming vastness of plant varieties, is this achieved balance between tamed and wild. I mean, I'm perfectly conscious of the effort of achieving and keeping such balance and the incessant labour that goes into it, but, honestly, you keep forgetting about it while wandering around and it all seems accomplished so effortlessly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGxosRtyyqI/AAAAAAAAATU/byPznzK5J3k/s1600/tulip+forgetmenots+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGxosRtyyqI/AAAAAAAAATU/byPznzK5J3k/s200/tulip+forgetmenots+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506891554246281890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Everything looks so gracefully established - and it is! - that you just can't imagine all the human sweat behind it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another astonishing feature of these beds is the wide range of colour schemes and combinations that you may find.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Christopher Lloydd's own words "I have no segregated colour schemes. In fact I take it as a challenge to combine every sort of colour effectively. I have a constant awareness of colour and of what I am doing, but if I think a yellow candelabrum of mullein will look good rising from the middle of a quilt of pink phlox, I'll put it there - or let it put itself there. Many plants in this garden are self-sown and they often provide me with excellent ideas. But I do also have some of my own!" Of which, we are left with no doubts! :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGxsczL66aI/AAAAAAAAATc/Ao3Y5pTKQy4/s1600/4873526082_508fd48690.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGxsczL66aI/AAAAAAAAATc/Ao3Y5pTKQy4/s200/4873526082_508fd48690.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506895686399617442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Visitare i giardini di Great Dixter quest'anno a maggio, è stata un'esperienza incredibile e molto importante nei &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;miei vagabondaggi di giardiniere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La prima caratteristica di questi giardini ad aver colpito la mia attenzione sono state le aiuole fiorite dove specie &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;stagionali, perenni, bulbi e arbusti crescono insieme rigogliose sistemate con un'arte così sapiente e raffinata da apparire naturale e quasi casuale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Non so a che cosa fosse dovuto, se al periodo dell'anno - un inizio di primavera dopo un inverno lungo e freddo; all'amica con cui stavo visitando i gi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ardini - ha un istinto infallibile per la sistemazione delle piante in strati vegetazionali; o semplicemente perché mi trovavo in Inghilterra e stavo visitando un giardino rinomato in tutto il mondo e a lungo... sospirato!; sta di fatto che queste aiuole hanno una qualità tutta loro da essere quasi ipnotiche!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGx3pYWc18I/AAAAAAAAAT0/kiPAMRRugUE/s1600/4872918875_e743dbb637.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGx3pYWc18I/AAAAAAAAAT0/kiPAMRRugUE/s200/4872918875_e743dbb637.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506907997162231746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Di sicuro non sono mai stato un appassionato di tulipani, mi ricordano di quelle aiuole da paesino di provincia o di quei &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;vasi in plastica con tutta la terr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a nuda che si scorge in mezzo alle piante isolate, ma qui è tutta un'altra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; filosofia. Qui le piante stanno in compagnia!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Colori, forme, consistenza di fiori, foglie e gem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;me, tutto contribuisce all'effetto finale dell'insieme. Le piantumazioni non sono né troppo fitte, né troppo rade e le piante crescono rigogliose.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGxv7zzfkNI/AAAAAAAAATk/9Syprpb6dFA/s1600/4873528084_9cc8f2f8d2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGxv7zzfkNI/AAAAAAAAATk/9Syprpb6dFA/s200/4873528084_9cc8f2f8d2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506899517676425426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sento che quello che più mi affascina nella sistemazione di queste aiuole, al di là delle sottigli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ezze ne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;gli schemi di colore e della abbondanza delle varietà impiegate, è il conseguimento di questo equilibrio fra il coltivato e il selvatico. Voglio dire, sono perfettamente consapevole dello sforzo necessario per raggiungere e m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;antenere questo precario equilibrio e del lavoro continuo che bisogna prodigargli&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;epppure qui, girando per il giardino te ne dimentichi continuamente da quanto tutto sembra così naturale e raggiunto senza fatica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGxwHnVOEWI/AAAAAAAAATs/XfXyirPEk20/s1600/4872917857_b6288c4ef0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGxwHnVOEWI/AAAAAAAAATs/XfXyirPEk20/s200/4872917857_b6288c4ef0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506899720486654306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tutto appare così aggraziato e naturalmente al suo posto, come se non potrebbe essere diversamente, che davvero non riesci a figurarti il sudore e la fatica che ci stanno dietro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un'altra caratteristica che colpisce di queste aiuole è la grande varietà di schemi e combinazioni di colori in cui ti imbatti mano a mano che procedi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nelle parole di Christopher Lloyd in persona: "Non ho schemi fissi di colore. Infatti per me è una piacevole sfida quella di combinare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in maniere efficaci &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ogni sorta di colori. Sono costantemente consapevole del colore e di quello che sto facendo, ma se penso che un candelabro di tasso barbasso starà bene uscendo dal bel mezzo di un letto rosa di flox, ce la piazzo lì - o lascio che vi cresca spontaneamente. Molte piante in questo giardino si autodisseminano e così facendo mi suggeriscono delle idee fantastiche. Ma anche a me non mancano!" e certo di questo non abbiamo dubbi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allora, rimbocchiamoci le maniche! questa è la stagione per piantare bulbi e rizomi che daranno fiori la porssima primavera. Il materiale occorrente? un po' di terra, sciolta, friabile e ricca di humus. Per le piante lasciamoci ispirare da queste combinazioni: tulipani violetti, allium e non ti scordar di me azzurri, i più sofisticati possono introdurre la scilla giacintoide nel gruppo. Altra proposta: tulipani purpurei, non ti scordar di me rosa e margherite rosse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-6915054535177592406?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/6915054535177592406/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/visiting-gardens-at-great-dixter-early.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6915054535177592406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6915054535177592406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/visiting-gardens-at-great-dixter-early.html' title='Le trapunte fiorite di Christopher Lloyd'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGgzId_RkAI/AAAAAAAAATE/OxBQkHUgLdY/s72-c/arazzo+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5581797881865119276</id><published>2010-08-15T00:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-18T18:01:18.012-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english gardens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Great Dixter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via dei fiori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meadows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prati'/><title type='text'>Giardini d'oltre Manica</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGeZr6C5f0I/AAAAAAAAAS8/Gefutk-Iwx8/s1600/Great+Dixter,+May+2010+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGeZr6C5f0I/AAAAAAAAAS8/Gefutk-Iwx8/s320/Great+Dixter,+May+2010+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505538049078558530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...ho compiuto un pellegrinaggio nel Sussex e, se l'Inghilterra tutta quanta e' un po' la Terra Santa del giardinaggio, questa regione ne e' l'indiscusso santuario e Great Dixter - il giardino  che abbiamo visitato - e', in questo momento, il sancta sanctorum di questo tempio. E' al tempo stesso un giardino e un enorme laboratorio a cielo aperto in cui tradizione, sperimentazione e innovazione vanno fianco a fianco con risultati che e' fantastico osservare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spero che presto anche anche nel nostro paese il giardinaggio non sara' piu' inteso&lt;br /&gt;semplicemente come tagliare l'erba e mettere quattro begonie in&lt;br /&gt;un'aiuola... e c'e' tanto da fare in questo senso, affinche' il giardino sia un luogo dove star bene con gli altri lavorando insieme (e non solo decespugliando! :-)...&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(da una mail del 13 maggio alle mie colleghe F. e A.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;...I went on a pilgrimage to Sussex and i considered, if the whole of England is some kind of Holy Land for a gardener, this area is no doubt its sanctuary and Great Dixter - the garden I've been visiting - is nowadays the innermost shrine of this temple. It is at one time a garden and an immense open air research lab where tradition, experimentation and innovation go along hand in hand with results that is wonderful to witness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I just hope that soon in Italy too gardening will not be confused with just lawns mowing and squeezing begonias in a flower bed... there's a lot to do towards this, so that gardening will be an occasion of well-being and working together (and not just about brush cutting! :-)...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(excerpt from a mail to my colleagues F. and A. on May 13th, 2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5581797881865119276?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/5581797881865119276/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/ho-compiuto-un-pellegrinaggio-nel.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5581797881865119276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5581797881865119276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/ho-compiuto-un-pellegrinaggio-nel.html' title='Giardini d&apos;oltre Manica'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGeZr6C5f0I/AAAAAAAAAS8/Gefutk-Iwx8/s72-c/Great+Dixter,+May+2010+%28c%29+Sergio+Dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5439624441948308734</id><published>2010-08-14T23:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-15T00:54:23.805-07:00</updated><title type='text'>un uomo cieco nel suo giardino</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGeEWi0vS0I/AAAAAAAAAS0/KTSA3HFWqn8/s1600/Joel+Sternfeld.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGeEWi0vS0I/AAAAAAAAAS0/KTSA3HFWqn8/s320/Joel+Sternfeld.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505514592323717954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;Joel Sternfeld, A Blind Man in his Garden, Homer, Alaska, July, 1984&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;now, what is it that we are looking for in our gardens? or... "in nature"? what is it that we expect from them that is not already within ourselves? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;ora, che cosa cerchiamo nel nostro giardino? o nella... "natura"? che cosa pretendiamo da loro che non sia già dentro di noi?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5439624441948308734?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/5439624441948308734/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/joel-sternfeld-blind-man-in-his-garden.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5439624441948308734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5439624441948308734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/joel-sternfeld-blind-man-in-his-garden.html' title='un uomo cieco nel suo giardino'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGeEWi0vS0I/AAAAAAAAAS0/KTSA3HFWqn8/s72-c/Joel+Sternfeld.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-6812312234976354162</id><published>2010-08-14T09:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T13:24:02.363-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='native plants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urban nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community gardens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wildlife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meadows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deep gardening'/><title type='text'>welcoming people and wildlife alike</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGb57KJIGII/AAAAAAAAASs/w_eE6gFOG80/s1600/c+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGb57KJIGII/AAAAAAAAASs/w_eE6gFOG80/s320/c+sergio+dimartino.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505362389237241986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, would you guess this was shot in central London within striking distance of St. Pancras Station? well, that's exactly the spot! Camley Street Natural Park lies in the middle of King's Cross. Born on the site of a coal yard back in 1984, it is listed today as one Local Nature Reserve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visiting there this year in May I was delighted by walking through an undergrowth of cow parsley in the wood and realizing what can be done to reintroduce nature in our towns and welcome people and wildlife alike a in public park.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chi lo direbbe che ho scattato questa foto in piena città a Londra a uno sputo dalla Stazione di St Pancras? eppure, sta proprio lì. Il &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/naturereserves/camleystreetnaturalpark/tabid/124/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Camley Street Natural Park&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; si trova nel bel mezzo di King's Cross. Nato sui resti di un deposito di carbone nel 1984, è oggi inserito fra le &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Riserve Naturali Locali&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; della metropli.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ho visitato questo giardino a maggio quest'anno e ho provato il piacere di camminare in un sottobosco di cerfoglio selvatico e toccare con mano quanto è possibile fare per reintrodurre la natura nelle nostre città e invitare in un giardino pubblico allo stesso modo la gente e la flora e la fauna selvatiche.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-6812312234976354162?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/6812312234976354162/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/urban-nature.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6812312234976354162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6812312234976354162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/urban-nature.html' title='welcoming people and wildlife alike'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TGb57KJIGII/AAAAAAAAASs/w_eE6gFOG80/s72-c/c+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-1905789478569601294</id><published>2010-08-07T12:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-11T05:14:37.365-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='native plants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via dei fiori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clematis vitalba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linaria vulgaris'/><title type='text'>Freschi di stagione</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TF21kNFU9jI/AAAAAAAAASc/oTz_MGq88Cw/s1600/4869144122_8bc2a76a5e_z.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TF21kNFU9jI/AAAAAAAAASc/oTz_MGq88Cw/s320/4869144122_8bc2a76a5e_z.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502753953308538418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;una mattina in compagnia di un collega a potare siepi e cespugli. e abbiamo costatato che perfino una siepe fatta esclusivamente di lauro di Trebisonda può ospitare graditi intrusi... così abbiamo raccolto un mazzo di linaiola e vitalba e salvato dal mucchio qualche rametto fiorito di veigelia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;di rientro al nostro capannone li ho messi a bagno in una ciotola di acqua fresca e, circondato di foglie e di fiori, come un improvvisato maestro fiorista nella sua bottega ho preparato queste composizioni per offrire ai miei colleghi il mio punto di vista. per condividere con loro una mia visione della bellezza. le erbacce si conquistano il posto d'onore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West"&gt;Vita Sackville West&lt;/a&gt; amava testare le combinazioni per le sue celebri bordure accostando fiori e foglie recisi in un solo mazzetto. allora, vi invito a lasciare le tastiere dei computer e raggiungere la prima aiuola a tiro, soprattutto se vivete in città. osservate i fiori e le erbe che vi crescono spontaneamente. raccogliete i più simpatici, quelli che vi conquistano con la loro forma e i loro  colori e la loro sottile fragranza. ringraziate e fate il vostro bouquet.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;one morning out with a colleague of mine cutting hedges and shrubs, we realized how many welcome plant guests a hedge, even one of only cherry laurel, can hold. so we saved from the lot some weigelia blooming twigs and a bunch of flaxweed and evergreen clematis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;as we got back to our warehouse, I put them in a bowl of cool water, and right then and there, like an extemporary master of flowers in his shop, I arranged them in two bowls and a glass to show my colleagues my point of view. to share with them a vision of beauty. weeds rising to the top.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West"&gt;Vita Sackville West&lt;/a&gt; used to try out the combination of plants&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; for her world renowned borders&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; by putting together in a single bunch twigs of different plants with other plants' blooms and buds. so i invite you to just quit your desk and reach for the closest green spot, mostly if you live in a town. get a closer look to the flowers and grasses that naturally grow there, harvest those that look nicer and most appealing to you for their shape, colour and subtle fragrance. find a way to express your gratitude and arrange your bouquets.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-1905789478569601294?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/1905789478569601294/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/una-mattina-in-compagnia-di-un-collega.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1905789478569601294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1905789478569601294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/una-mattina-in-compagnia-di-un-collega.html' title='Freschi di stagione'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TF21kNFU9jI/AAAAAAAAASc/oTz_MGq88Cw/s72-c/4869144122_8bc2a76a5e_z.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-1724092713507882966</id><published>2010-08-05T13:56:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T09:43:32.187-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tree-climbing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><title type='text'>Giardinieri con le ali</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFsmj1l-rVI/AAAAAAAAASM/-9QP9DPNT2k/s1600/ascesa+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFsmj1l-rVI/AAAAAAAAASM/-9QP9DPNT2k/s200/ascesa+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502033766886845778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Che cos’è quella cosa che quando la fai ti fa sentire vivo? Vibrante di energie, presente, attento, gentile con te stesso e con gli altri? Eccola, è quella cosa lì che devi fare. Non importa che cosa sia. Il mondo ha bisogno di persone che si facciano vive.&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;Ecco che vedo l’ennesima pianta capitozzata inutilmente, quando si sarebbe potuto potarla ad arte e risparmiare un trauma a lei a me e al mondo. Questa volta però il responsabile del capolavoro è ancora lì, attorniato da una audience di comari, giovinastri e pensionati del posto che fanno il tifo per la potatura selvaggia. Dàgli addosso al tiglio! È un po’ come in uno sfogo di gruppo. "Eh, non se ne poteva più... Hai visto come era diventato grande? Dàgli una sistemata..." C’è un accanimento di gruppo contro chi non può difendersi.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFsmOLReOBI/AAAAAAAAAR8/_qlwn_fV3m8/s1600/tensione+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 147px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFsmOLReOBI/AAAAAAAAAR8/_qlwn_fV3m8/s200/tensione+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502033394749290514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Fermi tutti. Questa volta non lascerò passare la cosa, anche se è una pianta privata. Ciao, sei tu che stai potando? Che tecnica di potatura stai applicando? Sai che cos’è il taglio di ritorno? Silenzio. Gli astanti sbigottiti. Il ragazzo che era all’opera imbarazzato. Allora vado su qualcosa di meno tecnico e più semplice, intuitivo quasi. Che differenza c’è fra una potatura di contenimento e una potatura di diradamento? Silenzio attonito. Come se stessi chiedendo qualcosa che non ha nessuna attinenza col mestiere del ragazzo. Forse lui si stava solo dilettando in una carneficina dell’albero voluta dal suo gruppo. Accenna ad andarsene. Aspetta, posso insegnarti.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;Quello che stavi tagliando è un tiglio. Hai mai visto le sue foglie che assomigliano a un cuore? Ti sei mai seduto una sera di tarda primavera sotto ai suoi fiori? Ti sei perduto nel suo profumo? Prima di iniziare a potare una pianta devi imparare a &lt;i style=""&gt;vederla&lt;/i&gt;. Non solo lei, il singolo soggetto che hai davanti, questo viene in un secondo momento. Devi imparare a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;vedere&lt;/span&gt; - attraverso di lei - l’intera Specie, l’intero gruppo a cui appartiene. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;C’è un disegno generale a cui ogni albero si rifà e un disegno particolare per ogni specie, un portamento caratteristico che contraddistingue le une dalle altre, tanto che anche quando non hanno più le foglie in inverno e da una certa distanza possiamo distinguerle. Quindi arriva l’albero che hai davanti, che stai per potare. Qual è il modello a cui si ispira, la forma a cui tende? E come si è sviluppato invece e perché? Sta accanto ad altre piante, a un edificio? Dove è cresciuto? In un’aiuola, in un giardino, a bordo strada? Ha assunto una forma strana, particolare? Ha qualche ramo decisamente particolare? Nodoso, sinuoso, parallelo al terreno o al fusto principale? Che cosa mi dice di questa pianta la sua forma? Perché sto per potarla?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFsmXkEBJfI/AAAAAAAAASE/Rk_aujLshI4/s1600/slancio+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFsmXkEBJfI/AAAAAAAAASE/Rk_aujLshI4/s200/slancio+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502033556022568434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Entrare in relazione con una pianta e massimamente con un albero per potarlo non è imporgli la forma che voglio io, è accompagnarlo ad esprimere al meglio il carattere della specie a cui appartiene attraverso la forma particolare in cui è sviluppato.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;C’è bisogno di studio per fare questo, c’è bisogno di pratica ed esperienza. E poi ci vogliono, ad accompagnare abilità tecnica e manuale, empatia e gusto. Occorrono, a volte, un paio di invisibili ali per avvicinarsi con deferenza e rispetto ai giganti silenziosi che hanno scelto di dividere con noi la loro vita. Ci vuole sensibilità ed estro, un affetto particolare per questi esseri che sostengono con la loro, la nostra vita.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFsmsi36wcI/AAAAAAAAASU/f0wJfTrE6iA/s1600/potatura+%28C%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFsmsi36wcI/AAAAAAAAASU/f0wJfTrE6iA/s200/potatura+%28C%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502033916480635330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Adesso hai capito? Toccare un albero richiede un’arte e una maestria che non si improvvisano. Non si pota un albero per noia, o per i soldi che eventualmente ne ricavi. Devi sentire che ti piace quello che stai facendo e che ogni gesto ha un senso, come ogni ramo che rimuovi, raccorci o lasci intatto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Ma tu mi guardi, e non capisci...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-1724092713507882966?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/1724092713507882966/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/giardinieri-con-le-ali.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1724092713507882966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1724092713507882966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/08/giardinieri-con-le-ali.html' title='Giardinieri con le ali'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFsmj1l-rVI/AAAAAAAAASM/-9QP9DPNT2k/s72-c/ascesa+%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-4882121296274838435</id><published>2010-07-31T03:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-10T04:48:20.296-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via dei fiori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='phyto-resonance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fiori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flowers'/><title type='text'>Drinking is too risky for a gardener</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFP-GwhgNKI/AAAAAAAAARU/aPa_bBAqcK0/s1600/M.me+Honorine+Jobert.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFP-GwhgNKI/AAAAAAAAARU/aPa_bBAqcK0/s320/M.me+Honorine+Jobert.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500018962007602338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;He pulls a flask from under his jacket, uncaps it and drinks. He holds it out to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No, thank you." I have never been much of a drinker. The one time I did imbibe too much, at a Royal Horticultural function put on by the Narcissus and Tulip Commitee, I became very sincere. Too sincere. I sat beside an elderly couple and rhapsodized about spring flowers. I think I might have quoted Wordsworth.&lt;br /&gt;(Helen Humphreys, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Lost Garden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;without drinking, get in touch within yourself with an experience of pure rapture and identification with an animal, a flower, a season or a leaf and share it with someone you know. you may just talk about it or you may write a poem, take a picture, draw a sketch relating to your experience and share it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Troppo rischioso bere per un giardiniere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tira fuori una fiaschetta, svita il tappo e beve. Me la porge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No, grazie." Non ho mai bevuto un granché. L'unica volta che mi sono lasciata andare, a un evento della Royal Horticultural organizzato sall'Associazione dei Narcisi e Tulipani, sono diventata molto sincera. Troppo sincera. Mi sono seduta vicino a una coppia di anziani e ho tessuto le lodi dei fiori in primavera. Penso di avere perfino citato Wordsworth.&lt;br /&gt;(Helen Humphreys, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Il Giardino Perduto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;da sobri, ricontattate un'esperienza di puro trasporto e identificazione con un animale, un fiore, una stagione o una foglia e condividetela con chi vi sta vicino. potete semplicemente parlargliene, oppure potete scrivere una poesia, fare una foto o disegnare uno schizzo in relazione alla vostra esperienza e condividerla così.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-4882121296274838435?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/4882121296274838435/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/drinking-is-too-risky-for-gardener.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4882121296274838435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4882121296274838435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/drinking-is-too-risky-for-gardener.html' title='Drinking is too risky for a gardener'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFP-GwhgNKI/AAAAAAAAARU/aPa_bBAqcK0/s72-c/M.me+Honorine+Jobert.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-7413719645368829142</id><published>2010-07-29T11:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T11:22:35.874-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='london'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english gardens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urban nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community gardens'/><title type='text'>gardens of the mind</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFHD2geJbXI/AAAAAAAAARM/RV2m_LIO4S0/s1600/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFHD2geJbXI/AAAAAAAAARM/RV2m_LIO4S0/s320/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499391961192820082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no matter how beautiful a garden in terms of location, design, soft and  hard landscaping features and plants thriving there, what you bring home  is a feeling of the way you were welcomed there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;per quanto sia bello un giardino - per il luogo in cui si trova, per la sua composizione, per gli elementi di arredo e strutturali che lo caratterizzano e le piante che ci crescono dentro - quello che resta è il ricordo di come vi sei stato accolto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-7413719645368829142?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/7413719645368829142/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/no-matter-how-beautiful-garden-in-terms.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7413719645368829142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7413719645368829142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/no-matter-how-beautiful-garden-in-terms.html' title='gardens of the mind'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TFHD2geJbXI/AAAAAAAAARM/RV2m_LIO4S0/s72-c/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-1128460857060763893</id><published>2010-07-21T14:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T04:29:38.146-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio profondo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deep gardening'/><title type='text'>to be... a garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TEdtTDTsICI/AAAAAAAAAQM/hr75nhbCEwE/s1600/giardino+sergio.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TEdtTDTsICI/AAAAAAAAAQM/hr75nhbCEwE/s320/giardino+sergio.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496482044301811746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;Se fossi un giardino...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quale sarebbe il mio primo pensiero?&lt;br /&gt;...e oggi dove fiorisco?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quale sarebbe la mia indole?&lt;br /&gt;Generosa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come amerei passare il tempo?&lt;br /&gt;Trasformandomi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cosa mi emozionerebbe?&lt;br /&gt;Il sorriso di un umano; una ragazza a piedi nudi  che cammina su di me nella rugiada del mattino; un uomo che piange  accasciato sul tronco di un albero&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quale sarebbe il mio dono al Pianeta?&lt;br /&gt;Bellezza, un modo unico di  intercettare la luce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cosa andrebbe perduto se io non esistessi?&lt;br /&gt;I miei confini, una  possibilità in più per gli umani di accedere all'Armonia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cosa mi piacerebbe degli esseri umani?&lt;br /&gt;Il loro rispetto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cosa migliorerei negli esseri umani?&lt;br /&gt;La loro volontà di controllo sulla  natura&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quale insegnamento vorrei trasmettere agli esseri umani?&lt;br /&gt;Prendetevi cura  di voi attraverso di me. Non lasciatevi ossessionare dell'"ordine" a  tutti i costi, un po' di confusione è vitale, lasciate che possa  esprimermi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;If I were a garden...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what would be my first thought?&lt;br /&gt;where am i going to bloom today?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what would be my nature?&lt;br /&gt;generous.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;how would i spend my time?&lt;br /&gt;transforming myself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what would move me?&lt;br /&gt;the smile of a human being; a girl walking barefoot over me in the morning dew; a man bending over a tree, crying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what would be my gift to Planet Earth?&lt;br /&gt;beauty, my unique way of catching light.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what would the world miss if i did not exist?&lt;br /&gt;my bounderies; on more possibility for human beings to access the Realm of Harmony.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what would you like of human beings?&lt;br /&gt;their respect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;how would you like human beings better?&lt;br /&gt;less obsessed by their struggle over nature.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="postbody"&gt;what would would be your teachings to human beings? take care of yourselves by taking care of me. don't become obsessed with the idea of order  at all costs. a little mess is vital, let it come out and be!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-1128460857060763893?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/1128460857060763893/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/se-fossi-un-giardino.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1128460857060763893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1128460857060763893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/se-fossi-un-giardino.html' title='to be... a garden'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TEdtTDTsICI/AAAAAAAAAQM/hr75nhbCEwE/s72-c/giardino+sergio.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-434704593200783042</id><published>2010-07-15T14:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T09:21:57.677-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardens to feel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community gardens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardini da sentire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden'/><title type='text'>gardens bring people together</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD-RKFoM74I/AAAAAAAAAPM/KEGValCANzw/s1600/4760414045_a82ee52ea9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD-RKFoM74I/AAAAAAAAAPM/KEGValCANzw/s320/4760414045_a82ee52ea9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494269672910811010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.culpeper.org.uk/index.cfm"&gt;Culpeper Community Garden&lt;/a&gt; is a well established and beautifully run public park and environmental community project in the very heart of Islington, London.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Culpeper is an organic garden with a rich and varied array of plants. Trees, shrubs and a wealth of herbaceous perennials and all kinds of herbs  and seasonal vegetables grow on the plots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD-QoB_pkJI/AAAAAAAAAO8/3AMwMOKo3Ms/s1600/4770530188_675ed973e0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD-QoB_pkJI/AAAAAAAAAO8/3AMwMOKo3Ms/s320/4770530188_675ed973e0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494269087819862162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tending the garden is a communal effort by garden members and  volunteers. Though the garden is divided up into plots for each resident gardener to grow his/her own piece of land, vegetation flows quite naturally from one plot to the other, turning from more ornamental to more productive ones without one really noticing, thanks to some common rules, a sound management and a shared feeling about what the garden is about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During my visit there I was welcomed by one of the head gardeners who introduced me to the philosophy of place. Managed by and for local people this garden is "90% about the people, and 10% about the gardening". And i did meet people of all ages and countries of origin, gardeners, clerks during there lunch break, a homeless, mothers and their kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD-SAjVEM2I/AAAAAAAAAPU/l7gooINnJNs/s1600/4769889731_80d51853d3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD-SAjVEM2I/AAAAAAAAAPU/l7gooINnJNs/s320/4769889731_80d51853d3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494270608596546402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The garden has quite a casual feel about it. A sound  foundation design is the perfect set for the vegetation to take the scene. Casual as the plantings may seem, there are some spots, corners, views where you find brilliant combinations of plants and an impeccable sense for colour, form and scale, granting an overall sense of unity and beauty. Great job!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECbg69uErI/AAAAAAAAAPc/8ZdUlGZdSBU/s1600/4760415821_1475643b39.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECbg69uErI/AAAAAAAAAPc/8ZdUlGZdSBU/s320/4760415821_1475643b39.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494562535278252722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.culpeper.org.uk/index.cfm"&gt;Culpeper Community Garden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, nel cuore di Islington a Londra, è un giardino pubblico ben avviato e gestito alla grande, si tratta anche di un progetto sociale per la salvaguardia ambientale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Si tratta di un giardino coltivato secondo i dettami del metodo biologico con una grande varie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;tà di piante. Alberi, arbusti, un sacco di erbacee perenni e una moltitudine di aromatiche e stagionali trovano spazio negli appezamenti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La cura del giardino è l'obiettivo e lo sforzo comune dello staff del giardino e dei volontari. Sebbene il giardino sia suddiviso in lotti per ciascuno dei giardinieri residenti che coltiva così il suo pezzetto, la vegetazione fluisce indisturbata da un appe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;zzamento all'altro facendosi ora più ornamentale, ora più ortiva, senza che si notino separazioni evidenti, grazie ad alcune regole comuni, una buona gestione e un sentimento condiviso riguardo a quello che il giardino rappresenta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECby3bl-ZI/AAAAAAAAAPk/MYocqwU3_FA/s1600/4761049930_9c77377017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECby3bl-ZI/AAAAAAAAAPk/MYocqwU3_FA/s320/4761049930_9c77377017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494562843567454610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mentre ero lì sono stato accolto da &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;una responsabile del giardino che mi ha illistrato la filosofia del luogo. Gestito da e per la gente del quartiere questo giardino "ha a che fare per il 90% con il benessere delle persone e per il 10% con il giardinaggio" (si capisce che essendo inglesi il dieci per cento è più che sufficiente per i risultati strabilianti che riescono a ot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;tenere! ;-) E infatti ho incontrato persone di tutte le età e provenienze, giardinieri, impiegati in pausa pranzo, un barbone, mamme e i loro bambin*.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECb-wdc-0I/AAAAAAAAAPs/r1OxLP993Zw/s1600/4770529190_ff60e8c3bd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECb-wdc-0I/AAAAAAAAAPs/r1OxLP993Zw/s320/4770529190_ff60e8c3bd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494563047854635842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Il giardino si presenta piuttosto informale. Una buona progetazione di base tuttavia offre la giusta cornice per il sopravvento della vegetazione. Casuale per come potrà sembrare a occhi inesperti l'arrangiamento delle piante ci sono certi angolini, prospettive e viste di insieme in cui è possibile apprezzare formidabili combinazioni di piante e un infallibile senso del colore, delle forme e dei rapporti di scala fra i diversi elementi assicurando così il generale senso di unità e bellezza. Ottimo lavoro!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-434704593200783042?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/434704593200783042/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/gardens-are-for-people.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/434704593200783042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/434704593200783042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/gardens-are-for-people.html' title='gardens bring people together'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD-RKFoM74I/AAAAAAAAAPM/KEGValCANzw/s72-c/4760414045_a82ee52ea9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-7684889813747338210</id><published>2010-07-15T05:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T14:27:35.737-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulmus hollandica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='potted garden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buxus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='allium schoenoprasum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roof garden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lupinus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='terrace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='allium globe master'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden'/><title type='text'>my garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD8BnJXYsvI/AAAAAAAAAOs/VK6YfwLmXTI/s1600/urban+oasis3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494111842455827186" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD8BnJXYsvI/AAAAAAAAAOs/VK6YfwLmXTI/s320/urban+oasis3.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 236px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;my garden's site is not on the top of a hill, nor is it by a brook or a wooded land to be found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my garden sits on top of a block of flats in a modern town, i have seen more pleasant sites and gardens more refined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if any garden is granted with rest and harmony, there is a constant noise in mine from cars and coaches passing by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and yet, by heavens, my garden is more true and full of gifts than one of those posh retreats on glossy magazines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;il mio giardino non sta in cima a una collina, e invano lo cercheresti vicino a un rivo d'acqua o in una contrada boschiva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;il mio giardino sta in cima a un condominio in una città piena di caos; ho visto posti più belli e &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;giardini &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;di certo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;più raffinati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;se in un qualsiasi giardino regnano pace e armonia, nel mio c'è un baccano di sottofondo per il passaggio continuo di autobus e motorini&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;eppure, per i cieli, il mio giardino è più autentico e i suoi doni più preziosi di uno di quelli spocchiosi che si trovano nelle riviste patinate&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-7684889813747338210?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/7684889813747338210/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-garden.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7684889813747338210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7684889813747338210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-garden.html' title='my garden'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TD8BnJXYsvI/AAAAAAAAAOs/VK6YfwLmXTI/s72-c/urban+oasis3.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-6602356491335320704</id><published>2010-06-29T14:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-15T05:35:51.043-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='potted garden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden'/><title type='text'>to see a flower</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCpoxb-yGEI/AAAAAAAAAOk/yooE_ifoB_s/s1600/digitals,+spiraea+%28c%29sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCpoxb-yGEI/AAAAAAAAAOk/yooE_ifoB_s/s320/digitals,+spiraea+%28c%29sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488314294438336578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;when you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. i want to give that world to someone else. most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. i want them to see it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Georgia O'Keefe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;quando prendi un fiore fra le mani e lo osservi veramente, ecco che è il tuo mondo per un istante. voglio regalare questo mondo a quanlcun altro. la maggior parte della gente in città si affanna in lungo ie in largo e non ha tempo per osservare un fiore. voglio che se ne accorgano e lo vedano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Georgia O'Keefe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-6602356491335320704?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/6602356491335320704/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/cose-che-succedono-quando-allevi-un_29.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6602356491335320704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6602356491335320704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/cose-che-succedono-quando-allevi-un_29.html' title='to see a flower'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCpoxb-yGEI/AAAAAAAAAOk/yooE_ifoB_s/s72-c/digitals,+spiraea+%28c%29sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-3570435155440146372</id><published>2010-06-28T15:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-04T21:27:06.429-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden'/><title type='text'>to see a garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCkifNFLeBI/AAAAAAAAAOU/GzmAiUw_hpo/s1600/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCkifNFLeBI/AAAAAAAAAOU/GzmAiUw_hpo/s320/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487955540410333202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;allenarsi a vedere un giardino, laddove altri non vedrebbero che un muro strullato, un parapetto prefabbricato e una fioriera in cemento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e l'agrifoglio scarmigliato con la luce che lo inonda?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;scoprite un giardino nell'asfalto che si crepa fra la strada e il marciapiede.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;getting to see a garden, where most people would just see a plastered wall and a concrete parapet topped with a concrete pot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and that ruffled holly with the pouring light?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;go out and find a garden in the asphalt crack between the street coat and the sidewalk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-3570435155440146372?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/3570435155440146372/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/to-see-garden.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3570435155440146372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3570435155440146372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/to-see-garden.html' title='to see a garden'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCkifNFLeBI/AAAAAAAAAOU/GzmAiUw_hpo/s72-c/%28c%29+sergio+dimartino.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-7208970026754440151</id><published>2010-06-22T17:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-25T01:38:11.948-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='river'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earth healing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fiume'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte di guarire la terra'/><title type='text'>drawing a cosmogramme</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCFb-uqrGpI/AAAAAAAAAMw/aazmvfz89aM/s1600/j+bishop+park+cosmogramme.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCFb-uqrGpI/AAAAAAAAAMw/aazmvfz89aM/s320/j+bishop+park+cosmogramme.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485766954351008402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;designing a cosmogramme is surely one way of getting in touch with our more intuitive core. it's a process of increasing awareness of our surroundings and inner soulscape. it can be a revealing and surprising experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;elaborare un cosmogramma è sicuramente un modo per entrare in contatto con una parte nucleare e più intuitiva di noi stessi/e. è u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;n processo di approfondimento nella presa di consapevolezza del paesaggio intorno e dentro di noi. si tratta di un'esperienza sorprendente e rivelatrice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;during &lt;a href="http://www.markopogacnik.com/"&gt;Marko Pogacnik&lt;/a&gt;'s workshop in London &lt;a href="http://www.earthenergynetwork.co.uk/index.html"&gt;"Cosmogrammes -&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.earthenergynetwork.co.uk/index.html"&gt; Communicating with Other Dimensions of Life"&lt;/a&gt; we explored different sites linked with river Thames around Hammersmith area to the West and Greenwich to the East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;durante il seminario di Marko Pogacnik a Londra abbiamo esplorato diversi luoghi della città correlati al fiume Tamigi intorno alla zona di Hammersmith a ovest e a Greenwich a est.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKaRVA2wOI/AAAAAAAAANA/1lqpRW-Yuio/s1600/from+my+notebook.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKaRVA2wOI/AAAAAAAAANA/1lqpRW-Yuio/s320/from+my+notebook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486116918579871970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in Marko's own words river Thames is the spine or backbone of London landscape. it's like a cosmic gesture within the town balancing the opposites within its organism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;per dirla con le parole di Marko il fiume Tamigi è la spina dorsale o l'asse portante del paesaggio di Londra. è un gesto cosmico dentro alla città con la funzione di bilanciare gli opposti all'interno del suo organismo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKcSMgzI3I/AAAAAAAAANI/feQrfcwokgU/s1600/listening+to+the+river.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKcSMgzI3I/AAAAAAAAANI/feQrfcwokgU/s320/listening+to+the+river.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486119132501058418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on the last day of our workshop we came back to the river and waited still for a while before setting to create the cosmogrammes we had been designing for the occasion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;l'ultimo giorno del seminario siamo tornati sul fiume e ci siamo messi in ascolto prima di realizzare i cosmogrammi che abbiamo elaborato apposit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;amente per questa occasione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;each of us chose one &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;of the many places we had been exploring and whose quality we experienced, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;designed a cosmogramme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; to suit with the Spirit of the place and help awakening and balancing its vital energies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ognuno di noi ha scelto uno dei diversi posti che abb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;iamo  esplorato e di cui abbiamo sperimentato le qualità, e realizzato un cosmogramma per trovarsi con lo Spirito del luogo e aiutarlo a risvegliare e bilanciare le sue energie vitali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKlXJ33koI/AAAAAAAAANQ/G6xou5CMww8/s1600/copyright+EarthEnergyNetwork.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKlXJ33koI/AAAAAAAAANQ/G6xou5CMww8/s320/copyright+EarthEnergyNetwork.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486129113296507522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;my choice went to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;an allé of plane trees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; in Bishop's Park. at this point the water energies of the river turn into fire energies and here we enacted the dragon's walk to facilitate this process of the shifting of one kind of energy into the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;la mia scelta è andata a un viale di platani a Bishop's Park. in corrispondenza di questo punto le energie d'acqua del fiume si trasformano in energie d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;i fuoco e qui abbiamo praticato la camminata del drago per facilitare questo processo di salto da un tipo di energia all'altro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;when it came to designing my cosmogramme i went back to the experience of walking water and fire and my hand naturally drew the overlapping of these energies and the sinuous line of the river course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;quando si è trattato di disegnare il cosmogramma sono tornato con l'esperienza alla camminata di acqua e di fuoco e la mia mano ha disegnato naturalmente questo sovrapporsi delle energie e la linea sinuosa del corso del fiume.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKqYU1pRaI/AAAAAAAAANg/8dT-5Rmtt1w/s1600/k+london+cosmogramme.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 197px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKqYU1pRaI/AAAAAAAAANg/8dT-5Rmtt1w/s200/k+london+cosmogramme.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486134630977979810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;it was only afterwards, when i downloaded my pictures, that i realized the cosmogramme design matches quite strikingly with the beautiful &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;pattern drawn by the branches above our heads at the end of the allé.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;è stato solo dopo, quando ho visto le foto, come il disegno del cosmogramma si sposa s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;orprendentemente bene con quello, bellissimo, dei rami sopra le nostre teste alla fine del viale di platani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the workshop went on and ended with the actual composition of some of the cosmogrammes on the shore of the river. the whole experience has been one of beauty and unity with the group and the landscape. i wish to say thanks to Marko and Marion, Lizzie and Sabine at Earth Energy Network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKtzWDSRnI/AAAAAAAAANo/RSHWzwgHBvU/s1600/h.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 232px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCKtzWDSRnI/AAAAAAAAANo/RSHWzwgHBvU/s320/h.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486138393694979698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;il seminario è andato avanti e si è concluso con la realizzazione di gruppo di alcuni dei nostri cosmogrammi sulla riva del fiume. nell'insieme si è trattato di un'esperienza di profonda bellezza e unità con il gruppo e il paesaggio. ringrazio ancora Marko e Marion, Lizzie e Sabine dell'Earth Energy Network.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-7208970026754440151?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/7208970026754440151/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/drawing-cosmogramme.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7208970026754440151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7208970026754440151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/drawing-cosmogramme.html' title='drawing a cosmogramme'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCFb-uqrGpI/AAAAAAAAAMw/aazmvfz89aM/s72-c/j+bishop+park+cosmogramme.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-219499368952934382</id><published>2010-06-21T21:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T23:10:43.571-07:00</updated><title type='text'>cose che succedono quando allevi un giardino in vaso</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCA5Wj9VsqI/AAAAAAAAAMo/w5WyR5AWHXQ/s1600/iris,+rosa,+viburnum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCA5Wj9VsqI/AAAAAAAAAMo/w5WyR5AWHXQ/s320/iris,+rosa,+viburnum.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485447405909684898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;in primavera, gli iris di fiume con le rose sarmentose e il pallon di maggio decidono di ricamare un haiku di luci  e di ombre sul muro in fondo al terrazzo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;things that happen when you grow a potted garden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in springtime, wild irises and rambler roses together with a guelder rose conjure to inscribe a haiku of light and shade upon a distant wall at the edge of your terrace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-219499368952934382?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/219499368952934382/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/cose-che-succedono-quando-allevi-un.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/219499368952934382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/219499368952934382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/cose-che-succedono-quando-allevi-un.html' title='cose che succedono quando allevi un giardino in vaso'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TCA5Wj9VsqI/AAAAAAAAAMo/w5WyR5AWHXQ/s72-c/iris,+rosa,+viburnum.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-8986147271812944852</id><published>2010-06-18T12:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T21:13:58.260-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via dei film'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vision'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vision quest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via delle parole'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero&apos;s journey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='il viaggio dell&apos;eroe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of words'/><title type='text'>beyond the fingers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TBvMy-1Q6iI/AAAAAAAAALQ/lg_bKMW5-9U/s1600/copyright_svend+dk+on+Flickr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TBvMy-1Q6iI/AAAAAAAAALQ/lg_bKMW5-9U/s320/copyright_svend+dk+on+Flickr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484202147485641250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:130%;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"  &gt;The fingers. What's the answer?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Oh, you're another one of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;those&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;bright young fellows... who always know the right answer, is that it? Welcome to real life. How many do you see?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;There are four fingers, Arthur.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;No, no, no. Look at me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;What?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Y-You're focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem. Look at me! How many do you see? No, look beyond the fingers. How many do you see?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Eight. Eight. Eight. Yes! Yes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Eight's a good answer. Yes. See what no one else sees. See what everyone else chooses not to see… out of fear and conformity and laziness. See the whole world anew each day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Le dita. Qual è la risposta?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Ah, sei un altro di quei giovanotti brillanti… che vogliono sempre conoscere la risposta esatta, vero? Benvenuto nella vita reale. Quante ne vedi?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Ci sono quattro dita, Arthur.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;No, no, no. Guarda me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Cosa?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Ti stai concentrano sul problema. Se ti concentri sul problema, non puoi vedere la soluzione. Non concentrarti mai sul problema. Guarda me! Quante ne vedi? No, guarda oltre le dita. Quante ne vedi?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Otto. Otto. Otto. Sì! Sì!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Otto è una buona risposta. Sì. Vedi quel che nessuno vede. Vedi ciò che tutti gli altri scelgono di non vedere… per paura e conformismo e pigrizia. Ogni giorno, vedi daccapo il mondo intero.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12pt;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"  &gt;Patch Adams, 1998&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-8986147271812944852?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/8986147271812944852/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/normal-0-14-false-false-false-it-x-none.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8986147271812944852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8986147271812944852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/normal-0-14-false-false-false-it-x-none.html' title='beyond the fingers'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TBvMy-1Q6iI/AAAAAAAAALQ/lg_bKMW5-9U/s72-c/copyright_svend+dk+on+Flickr.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-8519867606585708480</id><published>2010-06-12T17:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-22T17:48:49.711-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the Way of the Warrior'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la Via del Guerriero'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero&apos;s journey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='il viaggio dell&apos;eroe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la Via del Teatro'/><title type='text'>Alcyna e la Via del Guerriero</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TBQqCeqK1JI/AAAAAAAAAK4/d27kqehHBF8/s1600/budob.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TBQqCeqK1JI/AAAAAAAAAK4/d27kqehHBF8/s200/budob.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482052868494775442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Il &lt;a href="http://www.wix.com/teatrodelcontagio/official"&gt;Teatro del Contagio &lt;/a&gt;ripropone in Alcyna la storia di un eroe che non sa darsi pace per le sue oscure origini. A narrarne le vicende è un uomo di oggi a cui è stata raccontata la storia quando era piccolino, un uomo cui è ancora facile identificarsi con l'eroe della sua infanzia: &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Guerrin_Meschino"&gt;Guerrin Meschino&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dare vita sul palco alle sue avventure - le battaglie, gli amori, i lunghi viaggi e l'ultima prova, in un crescendo di immedesimazione fra il narratore e l'eroe, coinvolge gli spettatori in un gioco di rimandi e allusioni al loro stesso percorso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alcyna, la sibilla ammaliatrice, è l'anima stessa dell'essere umano andata a male per averla confinata negli inferi del nostro inconscio. Se riusciremo a contattarla nuovamente, onorandola, potrà svelarci il segreto regale delle nostre origini.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Via del Guerriero rappresenta una delle possibilità per ritrovare questo contatto. In scena le arti marziali si fondono al gesto teatrale, e si accompagnano naturalmente alla danza, alla parola poetica, alla musica e al canto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo incontro fra Occidente e Oriente, questa commistione fra cavaliere e samurai evoca la suggestione e l'universalità del tema. Nel giardino incantato di Alcyna potremmo trovare scolpito l'adagio di Katsumoto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;花は桜木人は武士 (hana wa sakuragi, hito wa bushi)&lt;br /&gt;"tra gli alberi il ciliegio, tra gli uomini il guerriero"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-8519867606585708480?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/8519867606585708480/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/alcina-e-la-via-del-guerriero.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8519867606585708480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8519867606585708480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/alcina-e-la-via-del-guerriero.html' title='Alcyna e la Via del Guerriero'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TBQqCeqK1JI/AAAAAAAAAK4/d27kqehHBF8/s72-c/budob.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-408669956686400353</id><published>2010-06-06T12:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T11:30:11.712-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='river'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earth healing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fiume'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte di guarire la terra'/><title type='text'>a universal language</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAwSHCNEAzI/AAAAAAAAAKY/fzFbyORwCl0/s1600/1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAwSHCNEAzI/AAAAAAAAAKY/fzFbyORwCl0/s200/1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479774758663095090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.markopogacnik.com/"&gt;Marko Pogačnik&lt;/a&gt; held a workshop in London this year organized by the &lt;a href="http://www.earthenergynetwork.co.uk/"&gt;Earth  Energy Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marko's work as an artist, writer and body-worker is based on the possibility for human beings to communicate with other dimensions of life. In his own words "it is possible that the crisis we are nowadays undergoing is a consequence and a mirror of the crisis of our language. We are not capable anymore to speak a universal language that could communicate with beings of different kinds from our own such as birds, animals, flowers, plants, rocks, seashells, clouds...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAwSYGpebCI/AAAAAAAAAKg/NHJ8t_mxFQ0/s1600/2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAwSYGpebCI/AAAAAAAAAKg/NHJ8t_mxFQ0/s200/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479775051913784354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Such a language is made of other things than words. In fact it can be made of sounds, gestures, signs capable of affecting  surrounding energies. Such a language is made for those beings who are not using words but can perceive the energetic vibrations starting from other organisms. This is why we talk about a universal language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are some rules we must learn underlying this language that is constantly being spoken around and among us. There is a multitude of ways in which this language can be spoken: in fact sounds, music, drawings, sculptures, forms of trees, rocks and clouds, are all &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;words&lt;/span&gt; to this evolving language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAwSmwbJ2II/AAAAAAAAAKo/aWPP_noKYus/s1600/3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAwSmwbJ2II/AAAAAAAAAKo/aWPP_noKYus/s200/3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479775303646173314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Symbols, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;mantras&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;mudras&lt;/span&gt; are other communicating tools of this language. These are all devices imbued with intentional qualities. In our Western culture, we have lost our knowledge of this kind of language behind our backs, we do not consider it anymore, we do not bring it to our consciousness even when it &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;happens&lt;/span&gt;, and it happens even if we are not aware of it".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this in mind we started our journey through the multifaceted reality of London urban landscape, visiting a variety of places mostly related to the river Thames.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECko0YCvaI/AAAAAAAAAP0/E_Ozby3cSQc/s1600/7+one+tree+hill.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECko0YCvaI/AAAAAAAAAP0/E_Ozby3cSQc/s200/7+one+tree+hill.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494572566553214370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.markopogacnik.com/"&gt;Marko Pogačnik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; ha tenuto un corso a Londra quest'anno organizzato dal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.earthenergynetwork.co.uk/"&gt;Earth  Energy Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Il lvoro &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;di Marko come artista, scrittore e formatore è basato sulla possibilità per noi esseri umani di comunicare con altre dimensioni della vita. Per dirla con parole sue "è possibile che la crisi che stiamo attraversando di questi tempi sia una conseguenza e un segnale della crisi della&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; nostra lingua. Non siamo più in grado di parlare una lingua universale che possa comunicare con altri esseri che noi uman* come gli uccelli, gli animali, i fiori, le piante, i sassi, le conchiglie, le nuvole...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECk0K7vtTI/AAAAAAAAAP8/BR9IyCd2xmA/s1600/8+Greenwich+Park.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECk0K7vtTI/AAAAAAAAAP8/BR9IyCd2xmA/s200/8+Greenwich+Park.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494572761587103026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Questa lingua è fatta di altro che non solo parole. In&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;fatti può essere costituita da suoni, gesti, segni capaci di influenzare le energie circostanti. Questa lingua è fatta per tutti quegli esseri che non usano le parole ma possono percepire le vibrazione energetiche che lanciate da altri organismi. E' per questo che paliamo di un linguaggio univerale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono alcune regole che dobbiamo imparare che sottendono questo linguaggio che continuament viene ustato intorno a noi e fra di noi. Ci sono un sacco di modi in cui questo linguaggio può essere parlato: infatti suoni, musica, disegni, sculture, forme di alberi, rocce e nuvole sono altrettante &lt;/span&gt;parole &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;attraverso cui questa ling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ua in costante evoluzione si esprime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECk_0ADzUI/AAAAAAAAAQE/I1oTkH1yOFg/s1600/9+Mudshute+Park.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TECk_0ADzUI/AAAAAAAAAQE/I1oTkH1yOFg/s200/9+Mudshute+Park.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494572961589611842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Simboli, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;mantras&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;mudras&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; sono altri mezzi di espressione di questa lingua. Si tratta sempre di strumenti per la comunicazione impregnati di un preciso intento. Nella cutlura occidentale, ci siamo lasciati alle spalle la conoscenza di questo tipo di linguagg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;io, non lo consideriamo più, non ci rendiamo più conto nemmeno quando si verifica, e si verifica anche quando non ne siamo consapevoli". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Con queste premesse abbiamo iniziato la nostra esplorazione della sfaccettata realtà multidimensionale del paesaggio urbano di Londra, visitando diversi luoghi connessi nella maggioranza dei casi al fiume Tamigi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"&gt;&lt;span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-408669956686400353?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/408669956686400353/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/cosmogrammes-communicating-with-other.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/408669956686400353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/408669956686400353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/cosmogrammes-communicating-with-other.html' title='a universal language'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAwSHCNEAzI/AAAAAAAAAKY/fzFbyORwCl0/s72-c/1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-2397874710050606948</id><published>2010-06-02T19:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-06T07:26:37.974-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAcT89prlcI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/mByKMyOGLz0/s1600/10.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 233px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAcT89prlcI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/mByKMyOGLz0/s200/10.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478369409781962178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La dimensione del sacro ci appare avvolta nelle vesti dell'ordinario. Siamo circondati da cespugli in fiamme. Tutti gli alberi sono pieni di angeli&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Macrina Wiederkehr&lt;br /&gt;via &lt;a href="http://inthegan.blogspot.com/"&gt;in the garden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-2397874710050606948?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/2397874710050606948/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/holiness-comes-wrapped-in-ordinary.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2397874710050606948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2397874710050606948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/06/holiness-comes-wrapped-in-ordinary.html' title=''/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAcT89prlcI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/mByKMyOGLz0/s72-c/10.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-1513002964631738515</id><published>2010-05-26T14:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-22T14:02:27.273-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><title type='text'>Dichiarazione d'Amore ai Giardini di Porta Venezia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAFjHci4xNI/AAAAAAAAAIw/-_6k6_iXO-w/s1600/P4176134.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAFjHci4xNI/AAAAAAAAAIw/-_6k6_iXO-w/s200/P4176134.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476767601431987410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Un luogo, considerato nel suo insieme - come un organismo, acquista  dignità di soggetto. Questo significa che possiamo interagire con esso e  costruire una relazione fatta di scambi. Ci capita continuamente, non  potrebbe che essere così, con i luoghi che frequentiamo più assiduamente  - casa nostra, il posto di lavoro, la mensa preferita, il bar dietro  l'angolo. il più delle volte però non ne siamo consapevoli, non  tributiamo agli spazi che ci accolgono, ci nutrono e ci fanno lavorare  il rispetto e l'affetto anche che sarebbero loro dovuti. Così non  capiamo i loro bisogni, li trascuriamo e può essere che finiamo col non  sentirci più a nostro agio in questi spazi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_21zPjYoeI/AAAAAAAAAHw/JnY1ZT11aGc/s1600/4629896050_c9c1328b02_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_21zPjYoeI/AAAAAAAAAHw/JnY1ZT11aGc/s200/4629896050_c9c1328b02_m.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475732613905293794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Riaprire un dialogo coi luoghi che abitiamo - e che ci abitano - può  essere una risposta al disagio personale ed esistenziale che tanti di  noi vivono. Già, adesso qualcuno mi chiederà come si fa ad aprire un  dialogo con un luogo? Cominciate ad osservarlo come se fosse la prima  volta che lo vedete. Certe volte capita, quando siamo in vacanza, di  visitare un luogo - una spiaggia, un bosco, la sala di un museo, un  incrocio fra due stradine, l'interno di una cattedrale o di un  ristorantino - e di essere colti da un'ammirazione che stupisce anche  noi per quel luogo com'è. Come si presenta ai nostri occhi e a tutti i  nostri sensi. Ecco, davvero nulla ci impedisce di provare lo stesso  sturpore per i luoghi che frequentiamo quotidianamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_7yb3URZnI/AAAAAAAAAIY/wNBW2nqQBis/s1600/P2075800.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_7yb3URZnI/AAAAAAAAAIY/wNBW2nqQBis/s200/P2075800.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476080757448468082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Liberiamo lo  sguardo dai vetri appannati dell'abitudine e trapassiamo con la  spensieratezza della nostra curiosità gli strati di polvere e pregiudizi  che abbiamo lasciato accumularsi sulla realtà delle cose che  abitualmente ci circondano. Esse sono vive e attendono solo di essere  percepite da noi in quanto tali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAFoBQ2fviI/AAAAAAAAAI4/9TxFqPed7t4/s1600/P4176147.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAFoBQ2fviI/AAAAAAAAAI4/9TxFqPed7t4/s200/P4176147.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476772992771931682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Provate ad avvicinarvi così a un luogo che già conoscete, per  riscoprirne la realtà, la bellezza e la poesia attraverso ciò che di sé rende manifesto. Rimmarrete stupiti dalla quantità di informazioni che attendono di essere comunicate e che sarete in grado di cogliere e apprezzare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAFobxeQAzI/AAAAAAAAAJA/2cMFAFhKT_s/s1600/P4176106.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAFobxeQAzI/AAAAAAAAAJA/2cMFAFhKT_s/s200/P4176106.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476773448205206322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Che il vostro approccio sia uno di rispetto e ricco di gratitudine per questa dimensione della realtà cui vi state avvicinando. può essere d'aiuto un'invocazione allo Spirito del Luogo che vi accingete ad esplorare. Io la formulo pressapoco così prima di varcare la soglia dei Giardini che amo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_74ow0h-II/AAAAAAAAAIg/AEpfQeOGqZo/s1600/P4256220.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_74ow0h-II/AAAAAAAAAIg/AEpfQeOGqZo/s200/P4256220.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476087576112789634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Spirito del Parco, ti riconosco. Riconosco in te lo Spirito degli alberi e degli animali che ti abitano e lo Spirito degli elementi che ti compongono: la terra che ti alimenta, le acque che in te scorrono, il vento che soffiando si insinua fra i tuoi seni e il fuoco sottile che in te circola. Apro il mio cuore alla tua coscienza e alle tue energie con un intento di luce.  Grazie"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAFw8xVkjuI/AAAAAAAAAJI/2Dd1_brDJu8/s1600/P4176091.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAFw8xVkjuI/AAAAAAAAAJI/2Dd1_brDJu8/s200/P4176091.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476782811197509346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Entrate nel respiro delle cose che via via vi si presentano e mischiatevi con loro. Penetrate nella loro forma, osservate il mondo dal loro punto di vista. Sentite, nella vostra, la loro coscienza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Uno dei punti chiave di cui rendersi conto è che la nostra saggezza personale di esseri umani non è disgiunta dalla forza delle cose in se stesse. Non c'è quindi alcuna separazione fondamenale fra noi e il nostro mondo. Quando riusciamo a sperimentare queste due cose insieme, come una cosa sola, abbiamo accesso all'enorme visione e forza del mondo - scopriamo che sono insite e connesse con la nostra visione personale, col nostro essere. Questa è la scoperta della magia. Non stiamo parlando di una rivelazione intellettuale, bensì di un'esperienza reale. Si tratta del modo in cui effettivamente percepiamo la realtà. Qualsiasi percezione può darci un contatto intenso e completo con la realtà. Ciò che vediamo non deve essere necessariamente bello o speciale; possiamo apprezzare tutto ciò che esiste. Dappertutto c'è una sorta di magia, di qualità vivente. Qualcosa di vivo, di reale, avviene in tutte le cose" (Chögyam Trungpa)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-1513002964631738515?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/1513002964631738515/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/05/un-luogo-considerato-nel-suo-insieme.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1513002964631738515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1513002964631738515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/05/un-luogo-considerato-nel-suo-insieme.html' title='Dichiarazione d&apos;Amore ai Giardini di Porta Venezia'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAFjHci4xNI/AAAAAAAAAIw/-_6k6_iXO-w/s72-c/P4176134.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-2151798427194968919</id><published>2010-05-18T15:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T11:41:07.828-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_gpOi4bSgI/AAAAAAAAAGo/0qw36mz81Hw/s1600/copyright+sergio+dimartino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 149px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_gpOi4bSgI/AAAAAAAAAGo/0qw36mz81Hw/s200/copyright+sergio+dimartino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474170676927220226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;a few days in England gave me the opportunity to visit a vast range of city gardens, parks and country estates. London trees and community gardens gave me such a great joy. Witnessing how they're tended and taken care for is a sheer pleasure and hard to describe to someone living in Italy where we have long lost our reverence towards tress and the land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i met as well some wonderful people and gardeners, you'll hear about them in future uploads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now, close your eyes. imagine you're at the entrance of a garden. you can't really see it from the gate and yet you can foresee it by the canopy of trees and cascade of blossoms coming down from over the walls. you can feel it thanks to the cool and fragrant air coming out it. the singing birds you're hearing and the uplifting spirit arousing from it are all inviting you to enter the place. are you ready?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;very gently step in. take your time to realize where you are and breath in the beauty that is surrounding you. you are allowed to pick up something from this place and leave something in return. make your joice if you feel like it. be grateful and say goodbye when you leave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;qualche giorno in Inghilterra e ho avuto la possibilità di visitare una varietà impressionante di giardini: vaste tenute di campagna, parchi pubblici, orti e giardini di quartiere. Gli alberi di Londra e i suoi "community gardens" sono una fonte di gioia inesauribile. Il rendersi conto di come sono ben tenuti e curati è un piacere difficilmente descrivibile per chi vive in Italia dove, da lungo tempo, abbiamo perso quel senso di rispetto e reverenza per gli alberi e la terra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ho anche incontrato delle persone e dei giardinieri fantastici, ve ne parlerò nei prossimi post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;adesso chiudi gli occhi. immagina di trovarti davanti alla soglia di un giardino. dalla porticina di ingresso, socchiusa, non riesci a vederlo. ne indovini la presenza dall'abbondanza di fronde e fiori che oltrepassano la recinzione. lo senti dalla freschezza e fragranza dell'aria che si diffonde tutto intorno. lo intuisci dal canto degli uccelli e da un senso di leggerezza che improvvisamente ii viene incontro e ti invita ad entrare. sei pront*?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;entra piano. prenditi il tuo tempo per renderti conto di dove ti trovi e inspirare dentro la bellezza che ti circonda. puoi prendere qualcosa da questo luogo e lasciare qualcosaltro in cambio. se ti va puoi farlo. sii grato e porgi i tuoi saluti prima di andare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_McKgp-KGI/AAAAAAAAAGY/faCx4yLCB4k/s1600/P5116490.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-2151798427194968919?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/2151798427194968919/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/05/trees-clouds.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2151798427194968919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2151798427194968919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/05/trees-clouds.html' title=''/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S_gpOi4bSgI/AAAAAAAAAGo/0qw36mz81Hw/s72-c/copyright+sergio+dimartino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-4198336281660788114</id><published>2010-04-27T14:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T15:56:27.331-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='phyto-resonance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meadows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prati'/><title type='text'>some call it a weed / le chiamano erbacce...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S9dtpO7SQvI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Nqbc_9cyTzM/s1600/1+trapunta+fiorita.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464957227986207474" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S9dtpO7SQvI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Nqbc_9cyTzM/s200/1+trapunta+fiorita.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ed ecco come si presenta in primavera dalle nostre parti un prato rustico quando decidiamo di non tagliarlo... va a fiore e mostra il suo costume di Arlecchino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;this is what a meadow looks like in springtime in our neighbourhoods when it goes unmown... it turns into flowers and shows its Harlequin costume.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;sono tante le erbe che lo compongono: il tarassaco, la prunella, le margherite, il trifoglio e tutte vanno a fiore se glielo lasciamo fare. di questo sono contenti i fiori, i bambini e le api. le farfalle, la terra e i pittori.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a meadow is made of so many plants: dandelions, self-heal, daisies, clover and all of them bloom if we just allow them to. of this merry are the flowers, toddlers and bees. butterflies, land and painters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;volete andare a caccia di fiori in questi giorni? ecco che cosa ho trovato guardandomi in giro:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hunting for flowers these days? look at what i've found:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S-DjkR6pLAI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/SuWtKDJmc_Q/s1600/Geranium+robertianum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S-DjkR6pLAI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/SuWtKDJmc_Q/s200/Geranium+robertianum.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467620160051948546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;una trapunta fiorita,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a quilt of flowers,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S9dtclt9cPI/AAAAAAAAAGA/2LvEJxW-wuA/s1600/2+campo+di+stelle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464957010766033138" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S9dtclt9cPI/AAAAAAAAAGA/2LvEJxW-wuA/s200/2+campo+di+stelle.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;un campo di stelle,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a field of shining stars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e)  {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S9dtTRx-LRI/AAAAAAAAAF4/eRuixjMBKH8/s1600/6+arazzo+d"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464956850795326738" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S9dtTRx-LRI/AAAAAAAAAF4/eRuixjMBKH8/s200/6+arazzo+d%27erbe.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;e un arazzo d'erbe....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a tapestry of blossoms and grasses...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;di fronte a un prato in fiore, osservatene un pezzetto alla volta. che cosa vedete? guardate i lati all'ombra e quelli esposti al sole, come si mischiano le piante fra di loro? son tutte uguali o una è diversa dall'altra?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;un prato spontaneo è una comunità di diverse specie erbacee in equilibrio fra loro, un po' come in una classe di bambini e bambine. ognuno è diverso dall'altro e insieme però formano un gruppo che è capace di vivere delle esperienze comuni ed è in grado di trovare al suo interno le risorse per far fronte alle eventuali difficoltà - per il prato queste sarebbero una prolungata mancanza d'acqua, temperature troppo basse o troppo alte e così via. in un prato l'erba più alta fa ombra a quella più bassa; i fiori dai colori più neutri e piccolini fanno risaltare quelli più vistosi e solitari; le piantine con le radici più profonde scavano la terra anche per le altre e così via in un rapporto di reciprocità dove l'equilibrio e il benessere dell'insieme è dato da una regolata convivenza di ciascun individuo con chi gli sta intorno. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;apprezzate allora i campi e i prati dove ci sono tante erbe tutte una diversa dall'altra, questa è la vera ricchezza!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;dedicato a una classe di bambini e bambine che vanno a caccia di nuvole e intessono storie insieme alla loro maestra! un abbraccio a tutti da Sergio &lt;/em&gt;;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-4198336281660788114?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/4198336281660788114/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/04/splendore-nellerba.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4198336281660788114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4198336281660788114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/04/splendore-nellerba.html' title='some call it a weed / le chiamano erbacce...'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S9dtpO7SQvI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Nqbc_9cyTzM/s72-c/1+trapunta+fiorita.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-1120987283012342680</id><published>2010-04-13T20:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-30T11:41:55.058-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tappeto erboso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lawns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giardinaggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><title type='text'>l'erba del vicino</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S81qcU5uD0I/AAAAAAAAAFA/B1wjXwrQUds/s1600/100_1912.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462138957949964098" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 150px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S81qcU5uD0I/AAAAAAAAAFA/B1wjXwrQUds/s200/100_1912.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Un giorno Dio si sveglia e fa – che starà succedendo sul pianeta Terra? e dà un’occhiata verso questa gemma azzurra che, tracciando la sua melodia, fluttua nello spazio insieme alle galassie. Mettendo a fuoco lo sguardo tuttavia, non gli piace quello che vede.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chiama a rapporto uno dei suoi Giullari, un Folle d’Amore, che sul nostro pianeta se la intese con le creature e gli elementi che tutti chiamava fratelli e sorelle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;DIO: Francesco, dimmi, che sta succedendo laggiù sulla Terra? che ne è delle margherite e degli occhi della Madonna? dei soffioni e delle viole, e di tutte le specie che piantai milioni di anni fa? Avevo in progetto un giardino fantastico senza bisogno di alcuna manutenzione. Ogni tipo di terreno avrebbe avuto le sue piante, resistenti alla siccità e capaci di moltiplicarsi all’infinito. Ogni specie avrebbe avuto i suoi fiori il cui nettare, traboccante dai loro calici, avrebbe attirato farfalle, api e colibrì. Mi aspettavo di vedere un vasto giardino dai mille colori a quest’ora, e invece, non vedo che dei rettangoli verdi…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: Sono le tribù che hanno preso piede su buona parte del pianeta, Signore. I Tecnoumani. Hanno etichettato i tuoi fiori chiamandoli “erbacce” e hanno fatto di tutto per sterminarli e sostituirli con il… tappeto erboso, Signore!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;DIO: Tappeto erboso? ma è di una noia mortale! Non ha molti colori, non attira le farfalle, gli uccelli e le api; soltanto vermi e camole di insetti. Non sopporta il caldo; non sopporta il secco; non resiste all’umidità… ma i Tecnoumani vogliono davvero tutta questa erba nei loro giardini?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: Pare proprio di sì. Fanno di tutto per farla crescere e mantenerla verde. Iniziano in primavera a fertilizzarla con prodotti chimici e avvelenano ogni erba estranea che spunta nel loro prato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;DIO: Be’, la primavera con le sue piogge frequenti e le prime giornate calde fanno crescere l’erba molto in fretta. Questo deve rendere i Tecnoumani felici.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: pare di no, Signore. Appena l’erba cresce un poco, loro la tagliano… anche due volte a settimana in certi casi…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;DIO: La tagliano? forse che la fan su come in balle di fieno?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: Non proprio, Signore. La maggior parte di loro la rastrella su e la mette in dei sacchi…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;DIO: La insacchettano? e perché? Allora, è come un foraggio? la vendono?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: No, Signore, al contrario. Pagano qualcuno per buttarla via.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;DIO: Aspetta un attimo, fammi capire. Concimano l’erba affinché cresca il più possibile. E, appena cresce, la tagliano e pagano qualcuno per portarsela via?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: Ehem, sì, Signore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;DIO: Questi Tecnoumani saranno contenti in estate allora, quando ritiriamo le piogge e accendiamo il riscaldamento, sicuramente questo rallenta la crescita dell’erba e risparmia loro un sacco di fatica…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: Signore, lei non ci crederà… quando l’erba cessa di crescere così in fretta e il prato andrebbe in riposo loro azionano degli impianti o, alla peggio, tirano fuori delle canne, e pagano qualcuno per bagnarlo in modo da poter continuare&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;a tagliarlo e pagare qualcunaltro per potersi sbarazzare dell’erba…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;DIO: &lt;/span&gt;È &lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;assurdo! Almeno hanno tenuto degli alberi. &lt;/span&gt;Quello fu un colpo di genio, se me lo consenti. Gli alberi si accendono di bellezza in primavera e si rivestono delle loro foglie per offrire frescura e ombra in estate. In autunno poi avvampano di splendore e lasciano cadere a terra le loro foglie per formare una coperta naturale sul suolo che lo mantiene fresco e protegge le radici di alberi e arbusti. È il ciclo naturale della vita…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: Signore, è meglio che si sieda. I Tecnoumani hanno disegnato un nuovo ciclo. Non appena le foglie cadono, le rastrellano in grossi mucchi e pagano qualcuno per portarle via.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;DIO: Nooo…!?! e come proteggono le radici di alberi e arbusti durante l’inverno per mantenere il terreno fresco e friabile?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: Dopo essersi sbarazzati delle foglie, vanno da qualche parte e si comprano del materiale che chiamano pacciame. Se lo portano a casa e lo distribuiscono sul terreno al posto delle foglie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;DIO: E da dove ricavano questa pacciame?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"&gt;FRANCESCO: Abbattono gli alberi e li macinano per fare il pacciame.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;DIO: Ok – non voglio sentire altro. Vediamo il film che Caterina ha scelto per noi questa sera…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;CATERINA: Si intitola “Slendore nell'erba”, Signore. Parla di…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;DIO: Sì sì, lo so. &lt;/span&gt;Francesco mi ha già raccontato tutto!...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(liberamente tradotto e adattato dell'originale rinvenuto in rete senza una fonte sicura)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;allora, se avete un giardino o un balcone o anche solo un davanzale con qualche vaso, provate il piacere di lasciare fare alla natura. in un angolo del giardino, ai piedi di un albero o alla base di un cespuglio smettete di falciare l'erba per qualche settimana e godetevi lo spettacolo dell'avvicendarsi di fioriture su fioriture, alte spighe, erbe striscianti ciascuna con le sue forme e i suoi colori. non devono essere irrigate, non devono essere concimate, non hanno bisogno di esser diserbate: vi chiedono solo di potersi manifestare nel vostro giardino e nella vostra vita.&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;il gioco vale anche per chi alleva piante in vaso. gli uccelli, il vento e la terra stessa trasportano i semi di innumerevoli piante che nascono spontaneamente nei nostri vasi, per una volta aspettiamo a strapparle. aspettiamo di vedere che fiore hanno. api, osmie e farfalle ce ne saranno riconoscenti.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Imagine God talking to St Francis about the reasons why the Earth is not quite what he would expect after his glorious plans...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: Frank, you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there on that planet? What happened to the dandelions, violets, thistle and stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand drought and multiply with abandon. The nectar from the long-lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honey bees and flocks of songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of colors by now. But, all I see are these green rectangles.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S81q0ipy4JI/AAAAAAAAAFI/-I3iAHWWOnU/s1600/100_1916.JPG"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462139373958127762" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 150px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S81q0ipy4JI/AAAAAAAAAFI/-I3iAHWWOnU/s200/100_1916.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;ST. FRANCIS: It's the tribes that settled there, Lord. The Suburbanites. They started calling your flowers "weeds" and went to great lengths to kill them and replace them with grass. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: Grass? But, it's so boring. It's not colorful. It doesn't attract butterflies, birds and bees; only grubs and sod worms. It's sensitive to temperatures. Do these Suburbanites really want all that grass growing there? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;ST. FRANCIS: Apparently so, Lord. They go to great pains to grow it and keep it green. They begin each spring by fertilizing grass and poisoning any other plant that crops up in the lawn. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: The spring rains and warm weather probably make grass grow really fast. That must make the Suburbanites happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ST. FRANCIS: Apparently not, Lord. As soon as it grows a little, they cut it-sometimes twice a week. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: They cut it? Do they then bail it like hay?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ST. FRANCIS: Not exactly, Lord. Most of them rake it up and put it in bags.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: They bag it? Why? Is it a cash crop? Do they sell it? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;ST. FRANCIS: No, Sir, just the opposite. They pay to throw it away. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: Now, let me get this straight. They fertilize grass so it will grow. And, when it does grow, they cut it off and pay to throw it away? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;ST. FRANCIS: Yes, Sir.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: These Suburbanites must be relieved in the summer when we cut back on the rain and turn up the heat. That surely slows the growth and saves them a lot of work. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;ST. FRANCIS: You aren't going to believe this, Lord. When the grass stops growing so fast, they drag out hosesand pay more money to water it so they can continue to mow it and pay to get rid of it. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: What nonsense. At least they kept some of the trees. That was a sheer stroke of genius, if I do say so myself. The trees grow leaves in the spring to provide beauty and shade in the summer. In the autumn, they fall to the ground and form a natural blanket to keep moisture in the soil and protect the trees and bushes. It's a natural cycle of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ST. FRANCIS: You better sit down, Lord. The Suburbanites have drawn a new circle. As soon as the leaves fall, they rake them into great piles and pay to have them hauled away. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: No. What do they do to protect the shrub and tree roots in the winter to keep the soil moist and loose?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ST. FRANCIS: After throwing away the leaves, they go out and buy something which they call mulch. They haul it home and spread it around in place of the leaves.GOD: And where do they get this mulch?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;ST. FRANCIS: They cut down trees and grind them up to make the mulch. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: ENOUGH!! I don't want to think about this anymore. St. Catherine, you're in charge of the arts. What movie have you scheduled for us tonight?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ST. CATHERINE: "Dumb and Dumber", Lord. It's a story about.... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOD: Never mind, I think I just heard the whole story from St. Francis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(i found this on the web but no author mentioned)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-1120987283012342680?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/1120987283012342680/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-time-for-meadows.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1120987283012342680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1120987283012342680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-time-for-meadows.html' title='l&apos;erba del vicino'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S81qcU5uD0I/AAAAAAAAAFA/B1wjXwrQUds/s72-c/100_1912.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-2666964757907853692</id><published>2010-04-12T16:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T17:06:10.114-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero&apos;s journey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='il viaggio dell&apos;eroe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autobiografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='self-biography'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S8OpaByXJ-I/AAAAAAAAAEw/5Z9Ba1u0Ehc/s1600/2212131100_108fe9139e_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S8OpaByXJ-I/AAAAAAAAAEw/5Z9Ba1u0Ehc/s200/2212131100_108fe9139e_m.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459393437924534242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like in a tale – say, out of a contemporary Arabian Nights – you’ve been wandering through towns, catching buses and underground trains, walking, cycling and sometimes even flying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You’ve become acquainted to all sorts of bookshops – antique and new, libraries, markets and fairs; collections, museums and cathedrals of arts and religions. And you got lost in the countryside too, you crossed rivers and entered woods, slept in fields and olive yards – lulled by cicadas at noon and grasshoppers at night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You ended up living in a monastery. Woke up early mornings to attend classes, pray and catch a glimpse of the rising sun. Oh, to hear the sound of bells through incense, to see that light melting in the sky!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever in search of those words that would at last unfold the mistery and provide your personal experience with a universal meaning, you’ve been looking for a teacher of secrets, a mentor, a master. The one that would tell you a story. Your story, so similar to that of the Gold-hatted boy and the Green-feathered bird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The boy’s efforts – like your own – to find a precious stone, an egg, that seed, through far off places and under the ground. The occasional companions in his quest – beasts and humans, like your friends and pets. And the ferocious ones – evil ogres and ugly monsters, like your own rivals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His trials, his disconfort, his moments of utter joy when tiny things happened that seemed to lead somewhere. And at last the great discovery. After the gloomiest of days – spent in a cave alone – that seemed to never end, the light. The soft light caressing the skin, a bud unfolding. Those words that composed themselves in a message to you. A riddle that no longer puzzles you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can catch it, but you will never get a hold on it,&lt;br /&gt;You cannot hold it for it is holding you.&lt;br /&gt;It holds you, yes, and yet it makes you free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It belongs to you, but you will never own it.&lt;br /&gt;It is not your exclusive possesion and yet it is your wealth.&lt;br /&gt;You’ve got to tend it and yet it is feeding you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So when the green feathered bird comes by,&lt;br /&gt;you’re not surprised; you know he wants your stone.&lt;br /&gt;By now you know the bird, the stone and you are one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Come in una fiaba, diciamo le Mille e una Notte dei nostri tempi, hai girovagato per strade e città - a piedi, in bicicletta, salendo e scendendo per treni e metrò, talvolta perfino volando.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hai frequentato librerie di ogni tipo - antiche e moderne, biblioteche, sagre e mercati; collezioni e musei; cattedrali dell'Arte e dello Spirito. e ti sei perso nella campagna pure, hai attraversato fiumi e penetrato boschi; hai dormito in campi e uliveti - cullato dalle cicale a mezzogiorno e dai grilli la sera.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sei finito a vivere in un monastero. Ti alzavi presto la mattina per frequentare le lezioni, pregare e intravvedere il sorgere del sole in un istante. Oh, ascoltare il suono delle campane nell'incenso, guardare quella luce sfaldarsi nel cielo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sempre alla ricerca di quelle parole che avrebbero alla fine svelato il mistero e fornito la tua personale esperienza di un significato universale, hai cercato un maestro di segreti, un mentore, una guida. Quello che ti avrebbe raccontato una storia. La tua storia, così simile a quella del Ragazzo dal Cappello d'Oro e dell'Uccello dalle Piume Verdi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;gli sforzi del ragazzo - così simili ai tuoi -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; alla ricerca della pietra preziosa, di un uovo, di quel seme attraverso posti sperduti e sotto terra. i compagni di fortuna nella sua ricerca - animali e umani, come i tuoi amici e i tuoi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;compagni animali. e gli incontri feroci - con orchi cattivi mostri terribili, come i tuoi stessi rivali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Le sue prove, il suo malessere, quei momenti di gioia totale quando succedevano piccole cose che parevano portarlo nella giusta direzione. E alla fine la scoperta più grande. Dopo il giorno più nero che sembrava non finire più, trascorso in una grotta da solo, la luce. La luce dolce che accarezza la pelle, un germoglio che si dischiude. Le parole che si composero in un messaggio per te. Un indovinello che ha cessato di turbarti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Puoi coglierla, non mai trattenerla,&lt;br /&gt;Trattenerla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; non puoi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, perché è lei a trattener te.&lt;br /&gt;Ti trattiene, già, eppure ti rende libero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ti appartiene, ma non &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;mai &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;la possiederai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Non è tua proprietà esclusiva, eppure è la tua ricchezza.&lt;br /&gt;Devi curarla, eppure lei ti nutre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Così, quando ti verrà vicino l'uccello dalle piume verdi &lt;/span&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;non ti sorprenderà; sai già che vuole la tua pietra.&lt;br /&gt;Oramai tu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; sai &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;che tu e lui e la pietra siete una cosa sola.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-2666964757907853692?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/2666964757907853692/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/04/like-in-tale-say-out-of-contemporary.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2666964757907853692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/2666964757907853692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/04/like-in-tale-say-out-of-contemporary.html' title=''/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S8OpaByXJ-I/AAAAAAAAAEw/5Z9Ba1u0Ehc/s72-c/2212131100_108fe9139e_m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-8637062835258923434</id><published>2010-04-05T04:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-20T15:10:01.608-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la magia dei luoghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the magic of places'/><title type='text'>inside outside</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S7nIqfIFKYI/AAAAAAAAAEo/JW3eS4OdNMU/s1600/inside+the+brain.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S7nIqfIFKYI/AAAAAAAAAEo/JW3eS4OdNMU/s200/inside+the+brain.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456613055771519362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;potrebbe essere che entrando in uno spazio questo penetri in noi come noi stiamo entrando in esso. e non intendo semplicemente che ci si avvolga intorno come è abbastanza spontaneo pensare ma proprio ci passi attraverso, ci compenetri come un uccello che fenda l'aria volando e al tempo stesso se ne lasci penetrare completamente. internamente ed esternamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;se non vi è mai capitato prendetela pure come un'ipotesi di lavoro. è possibile che le qualità di un luogo, penetrandoci, ci si manifestino internamente proprio come le nostre qualità fuoriuscendo da noi interagiscano con l'ambiente che ci circonda trasformandolo e lasciandoci conoscere da esso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;si tratta di un’interazione. è un fenomeno che capita costantemente: che ne siamo consapevoli o meno. uno spazio ha una sua personalità che entra in relazione con la nostra. succede quando entriamo in un supermercato, quando torniamo a casa, quando visitiamo un museo o entriamo in una chiesa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;quello che succede è che un luogo, dotato di precise qualità e caratteristiche – intrinseche o per così dire donate ad esso dall’intento di chi lo ha ideato e costruito e dall’uso costante che ne è stato fatto nel tempo – entra in risonanza con noi, con una parte del nostro corpo o un ambito della nostra vita, e scambia con noi delle informazioni. per coglierle dobbiamo allenarci a uno stato di silenzio interiore e rispetto verso noi stessi e i luoghi che visitiamo. questo tipo di interazione è fonte di grande gioia e arricchimento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;la prossima volta che varchiamo una soglia, che stiamo per “entrare” da qualche parte, prendiamo consapevolezza di questo attraversamento; fermiamoci un attimo prima di valicare l’ingresso – sia esso di una casa, di un museo, di un luogo di culto, di una scuola, di una palestra – porgiamo i nostri saluti, esprimiamo il nostro rispetto per la sua esistenza, proviamo a domandarci come mai la vita ci ha portato a questa soglia e predisponiamoci all’ascolto di quanto questo luogo potrebbe avere da comunicarci. possiamo fare questo piccolo esercizio di centratura e ascolto praticamente ovunque, prima di scendere in una stazione della metropolitana per prendere un treno o prima di salire sulla nostra stessa auto, prima di entrare nell’edificio dove lavoriamo e nel nostro ufficio. possiamo farlo prima di entrare dal panettiere o nel nostro giardino. onoriamo così gli spazi che ci accolgono quotidianamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;we may enter a room and this will penetrate within us as we are doing with it. i don't just mean it will wrap us as it is quite easy to imagine, i really mean it will pass through us, penetrating us like a flying bird that breaks the air, at the same time letting the air break through its body both outwardly and within. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;if you've never experienced it, take it as a possibility to work upon. there's a chance that the qualities of a place, by penetrating us, will reveal themselves within us. in the same way as our own qualities leaking from us interact with what is around us by changing it and thus letting ourselves be known by our environment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;it is a way of interacting. it is something that happens every time. whether we realize it or not a room has a personality of its own that relates with ours. it happens when we enter a supermarket, when we get home, when we’re visiting a museum or entering a church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;what happens is that a place with its own characteristics and qualities – whether innate or lent to it by those who designed and built it and by those who attended it in time – starts resonating with us, with a part of our bodies or specific areas in our lives, and an exchange of information takes place. in order to become conscious that such a process is taking place we need training to a state of inner silence and respect towards ourselves and the places we visit. this kind of relationship brings great joy and broadens our inner resources.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;next time we are about to open a door and enter somewhere, let’s become conscious of this threshold and our passing through it; let’s stop for a while before entering somewhere – whether our home, a museum, a sacred place, a school, our gym – let us give our regards to the place, let us say respect its existence, let’s wonder how comes that life took us to this threshold and let’s get ready to perceive what this place might want to communicate to us. we can easily practice this exercise of centering and listening almost anywhere, before getting underground to catch a subway train or getting into our own car; before entering the building where we work and our office. We can practice it before getting into the bakery or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;our garden. Let’s honour in this way the places that daily embrace us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-8637062835258923434?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/8637062835258923434/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/04/c-upper-stanford-university-lower-g.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8637062835258923434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8637062835258923434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/04/c-upper-stanford-university-lower-g.html' title='inside outside'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S7nIqfIFKYI/AAAAAAAAAEo/JW3eS4OdNMU/s72-c/inside+the+brain.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-3284215671573253210</id><published>2010-03-22T10:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-04T20:33:27.292-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lambro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='river'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earth healing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fiume'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte di guarire la terra'/><title type='text'>getting in touch with the river</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6ez2vDscsI/AAAAAAAAADQ/yNJKBZw-MLc/s1600-h/1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6ez2vDscsI/AAAAAAAAADQ/yNJKBZw-MLc/s200/1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451523626881544898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;quando ho iniziato questo blog ritenevo che soltanto gli episodi migliori, le esperienze più significative in senso positivo vi avrebbero trovato posto. ora so che non sarà così. ci sono delle zone d'ombra che è necessario attraversare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;when i first launched this blog i was sure that only the best things, th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;e most reassuring experiences would make their way here. now i know it is not so. there &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;are dark areas that i &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;need to go through.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il 23 febbraio scorso... una telefonata, qualcuno mi informa che il fiume Lambro è stato invaso da un'ondata di idrocarburi che apparentemente non dovevano neppure esistere...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;last February, 23rd... a phone call, someone told me that a wave of petrol and oil flowed into river Lambro... we would later learn that  this oil and petrol was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;supposedly...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; inexistent...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6ez3YAw-3I/AAAAAAAAADY/GCQrchl1ljM/s1600-h/2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6ez3YAw-3I/AAAAAAAAADY/GCQrchl1ljM/s200/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451523637875112818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;sappiamo tutti che il corso del fiume Lambro è terribilmente inquinato già non appena superate la prima valle che attraversa per diventarlo poi mortalmente una volta che si è lasciato alle spalle la ricca Brianza. questa non è una novità. ma perché preferiamo non pensarci? perché fare finta di niente?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;we all know that the river Lambro is awfully polluted right a few miles below its spring until it gets mortally so after collecting all kinds of waste materials from the industrial sites of the rich Brianza. this is no news. so why do we choose not think about it? why do we feign surprised?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;abbiamo spremuto i nostri monti, le nostre valli, i nostri fiumi, la nostra pianura come se loro non contassero più nulla, e pensare che loro sono così generosi con noi...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;we've been exploiting our hills, our valleys, our rivers, our fertile land as if they meant nothing, and yet they are being so generous towards us...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6ez328lHiI/AAAAAAAAADg/Ur2uJPKKXEU/s1600-h/3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6ez328lHiI/AAAAAAAAADg/Ur2uJPKKXEU/s200/3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451523646179057186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;la settimana scorsa siamo andati a trovare il fiume. siamo andati a trovarlo come si fa con un vecchio amico o un parente che non vediamo da un pezzo e sappiamo ammalato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;last week we went to visit the river. we went to pay a visit there as we do &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;with an old friend or a relative we haven't seen in a while and have heard of being ill.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;siamo andati a trovarlo a Monza praticamente all'altezza dove è avventuto l'avvelenamento di un mese fa. c'era qualcosa di spettrale nell'aria oltre all'odore acre che emana dal fiume come di detersivo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;we went to visit the river in Monza more or less where the poisoning took place one month ago. something eery struck us in the air as well as a terrible smell coming from the river as of detergents...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fBvwjacGI/AAAAAAAAADo/T6LDSfZ9-D4/s1600-h/4.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fBvwjacGI/AAAAAAAAADo/T6LDSfZ9-D4/s200/4.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451538900186722402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;questo è il punto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;this is the spot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;che cosa fai quando hai di fronte la morte? un paziente, un parente lontano, che è sul punto di morire? respiri profondo e cerchi un centro dentro di te dove trovare conforto, per poterlo offrire a tua volta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what do you do when confronted with death? with a patient, a distant relative, that looks deadly sick? you take a deep breath, you centre yourself in a place where some comfort can be found and offered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fBwZvLvkI/AAAAAAAAADw/93SZEN7Ob5Y/s1600-h/5.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fBwZvLvkI/AAAAAAAAADw/93SZEN7Ob5Y/s200/5.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451538911241944642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;questo è quanto abbiamo fatto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that's what we did.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e come te ne vieni via da un parente in quelle condizioni? vuoi credere che a qualcosa è servito... che quel mezzo sorriso, quella serenità appena intravvista nel suo sguardo erano il suo modo per dirti grazie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and how do you say goodbye to someone in such a state? you want to believe that your visit meant something... that half smile, that fleeting serenity in its &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;eyes... that was its way to say thanks...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fNDUhEIvI/AAAAAAAAAEI/uW0y-FpkcsI/s1600-h/6.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fNDUhEIvI/AAAAAAAAAEI/uW0y-FpkcsI/s200/6.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451551330885968626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;così ci siamo compiaciuti nel vedere che una coppia di uccellini è stata tutto il tempo con noi, volando e inseguendosi sopra le nostre teste, mentre praticavamo la nostra piccola cerimonia di guarigione, ringraziamento, riconoscimento e saluto del fiume.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and so we rejoiced when we noticed that a couple of birds stayed with us, flying and chasing each other over our heads, throughout our little cerimony of  healing, acknowledging, thanksgiving and greeting of the river.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fJaLHToDI/AAAAAAAAAEA/tW3KXKCNRu0/s1600-h/7.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fJaLHToDI/AAAAAAAAAEA/tW3KXKCNRu0/s200/7.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451547325452492850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;e quando ce ne siamo andati il cielo ci ha sorriso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and when we left the sky smiled unto us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(la nostra formazione comprendeva: me, Alessandro, Mina, Patch e Salvatore. grazie per la vostra presenza)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;("we" is: me, Alessandro, Mina, Patch e Salvatore. thank you for being there)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-3284215671573253210?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/3284215671573253210/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/03/geting-in-touch-with-river.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3284215671573253210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3284215671573253210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/03/geting-in-touch-with-river.html' title='getting in touch with the river'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6ez2vDscsI/AAAAAAAAADQ/yNJKBZw-MLc/s72-c/1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-6554462839625933395</id><published>2010-03-18T16:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-18T12:54:35.663-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via delle parole'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via dei libri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of words'/><title type='text'>risvegliarsi alle cose</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6K7IezvkwI/AAAAAAAAADI/569ys0qGjUE/s1600-h/katherine+mansfield.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 97px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6K7IezvkwI/AAAAAAAAADI/569ys0qGjUE/s200/katherine+mansfield.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450124253455160066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"qui" è un bellissimo castello antico con la sua meravigliosa tenuta intorno. (...) ci lavorano circa quaranta persone, facendo di tutto di più. lavorano all'aperto, si prendono cura degli animali, del giardino e lavorano dentro, fanno musica, danzano - un po' di tutto veramente. qui l'apparato teoretico è di secondaria importanza. le cose pratiche vengono prima. si tratta, infatti, di risvegliarsi alle cose, anziché parlarne. si tratta di imparare a fare tutte quelle cose che diciamo di voler fare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(katherine mansfield)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-6554462839625933395?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/6554462839625933395/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/03/risvegliarsi-alle-cose.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6554462839625933395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6554462839625933395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/03/risvegliarsi-alle-cose.html' title='risvegliarsi alle cose'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6K7IezvkwI/AAAAAAAAADI/569ys0qGjUE/s72-c/katherine+mansfield.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-4496660725986762716</id><published>2010-03-15T10:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-27T14:40:43.351-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero&apos;s journey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='il viaggio dell&apos;eroe'/><title type='text'>il popolo dei Na'vi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S554kkimqQI/AAAAAAAAAC4/tB7BjQRcKEw/s1600-h/193973144_441dd24138_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S554kkimqQI/AAAAAAAAAC4/tB7BjQRcKEw/s200/193973144_441dd24138_m.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448925168844318978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c'è una possibilità che la storia raccontata in Avatar parli di un percorso che prima o dopo ciascuno di noi è chiamato a intraprendere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avatar racconta la storia della personale riconnessione con la propria integrità. Pandora, il Popolo dei Na'vi, le forze di occupazione sono in noi. come in noi sono l'eroe e la sua eroina, gli animali selvaggi e quelli ammansiti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il film descrive il processo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;di graduale presa di consapevolezza di uno stato di equilibrio dentro di noi. fluido e in totale armonia fra le sue parti e con noi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;per prendere contatto con questa dimensione è necessario coltivare la quiete e il silenzio - la ricercatrice Grace raccomanda a Jake &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"rilassati e svuota la mente...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;" &lt;/span&gt;prima di intraprendere il viaggio - altrimenti ci attireremo soltanto guai. strane bestie, incroci fra vipere e lupi si metteranno sulle nostre tracce. allora potrà pararcisi davanti la nostra parte intuitiva con parole dure - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sei come un poppante, strilli e non sai cosa fare...&lt;/span&gt; - lei, Neytiri, che invece si muove a suo agio in questo spazio e se la rispetteremo potrà diventare nostra alleata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il processo di esplorazione e presa di coscienza di questo territorio avviene in uno stato vigile e consapevole come quello di veglia ma al tempo stesso fa ricorso a sensi e risorse nostre che raramente attiviamo e che dobbiamo gradualmente esercitare e imparare a padroneggiare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a un certo punto Grace insegue Jake con caffè e uova cotte al micronde &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"mangiale, ti devi prendere cura di questo corpo..."  &lt;/span&gt;il film mostra come durante tutto questo processo sia di vitale importanza non perdere il contatto con quella parte di noi che consideriamo "ordinaria" e dalla quale partiamo per le nostre esplorazioni. dobbiamo imparare a non trascurarla, perché è quella parte stessa che stiamo esplorando da un nuovo punto di vista e con nuovi mezzi.&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;dovremo imparare a camminare prima, incontrare le nostre belve, vincere la paura dell'acqua, difenderci con il fuoco per allearci con la nostra parte intuitiva e i suoi ascendenti; connetterci con le forze terrestri del cavallo e quindi, dopo aver dato prova di un equilibrio impeccabile nell'uccidere per nutrirci - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"una morte netta, sei pronto..."&lt;/span&gt; - domare l'animale alato per connetterci alle forze dell'aria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;è facile che &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;nel corso di questo processo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;escano allo scoperto quelle parti egoiche di noi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; - il colonnello Miles Quaritch nel film - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;che ci tengono molto al veicolo attraverso - e dentro - il quale intraprendiamo le nostre esplorazioni e che si sentono immediatamente minacciate e in pericolo di perdere la loro supremazia su di noi. e si opporranno con tutte le loro forze alla nostra presa di consapevolezza di quella terra di pace e bellezza, Pandora, che alberga dentro di noi e di cui siamo i leggittimi fruitori&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;per scampare inutili stragi, è sempre meglio evitare il contrasto diretto e procedere molto gradualmente nell'opera. si tratta, infatti, di una conquista pacifica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the Na'vi People&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a chance that the tale we're shown in Avatar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;is pointing to a path that sooner or later each one of us will walk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Avatar is the story of our personal reconnection to our own state of unity. Pandora, the Na'vi People, the occupation task forces are all to be found within ourselves. as are the wild and tamed animals, and the hero and his heroine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;the process of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;step-by-step&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; acknowledgement of one's original state of inner balance is shown thoughout the film. a dynamic and harmonious state of our different parts with one another and with us&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in order to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;get in touch with such a dimension we have to cultivate silence and peacefulness&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Grace jokingly warns Jake before sending him to his journey&lt;/span&gt; "relax and let your mind go blank..." &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;otherwise we will just get in trouble. strange animals, eerie beast half vipers half wolves will chase us. then our intuitive part may turn up and reproachfully address us -&lt;/span&gt; "you are like a baby, making noise, you don't know what to do..." - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;she&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; instead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, Neytiri, moves swiftly at her ease around here and will be one of our allies if we choose to honour her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;exploring and acknowledging this domain is an act of will taking place in a fully conscious and awaken state and yet the senses and faculties with which we are operating, though ours, are seldom used and we need to train them in order to gradually master them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at one point Grace is chasing Jake with coffe and microwaved eggs &lt;/span&gt;"eat them, you need to take care of this body..."&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; the film shows how vital it is, throughout the whole process, not to lose touch with that everyday life part of us we consider "ordinary" and which is the starting point of our expeditions. we must care for it, for it is this part in fact that we are exploring with new tools and a fresh point of view.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;we will have to learn how to walk first and we will have to confront our beasts, win our fear of waters, protect ourselves with fire and meet our intuitive part and her ascendants to become allies with them. connect with the earthly forces of a horse and then, after proving a perfect balance through killing for food - &lt;/span&gt;"a clean death, you are ready&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;..." - tame the winged animal in order to connect with the air currents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;throughout this process those ego oriented parts of us - colonel Miles Quaritch in the film - that do care about the vehicle through - and within - which we make our expeditions will become alert and immediately feel undermined and in danger of losing their control over us. they will fight with all their strength against our awakening to that land of quiet and beauty, Pandora, that dwells within ourselves and of which we are the righteous dwellers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in order to prevent an unecessary slaughter, it's always best to avoid direct contrast and proceed gradually in the work. this is, in fact, a peaceful conquest. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-4496660725986762716?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/feeds/4496660725986762716/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/03/il-popolo-dei-navi.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4496660725986762716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4496660725986762716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/03/il-popolo-dei-navi.html' title='il popolo dei Na&apos;vi'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S554kkimqQI/AAAAAAAAAC4/tB7BjQRcKEw/s72-c/193973144_441dd24138_m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-3122295496503258013</id><published>2010-03-01T14:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-13T06:06:45.181-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><title type='text'>un albero, che albero?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S4w5Hb2yGDI/AAAAAAAAACw/BdvCH9h0zXA/s1600-h/manafi+al+haywaan+tree+01.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S4w5Hb2yGDI/AAAAAAAAACw/BdvCH9h0zXA/s200/manafi+al+haywaan+tree+01.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443788849483487282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;[...] protegge dal freddo e sostituisce le uova delle galline nella maggior parte dei benefici [...] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;poi una parte totalmente incomprensibile seguita da due parole&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;il verde e l'acqua &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;poi di nuovo una parola non chiara che potrebbe essere una congiunzione seguita da un'altra parola illeggibile...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;guarda, ci è stato insegnato il linguaggio degli uccelli, così siamo stati resi partecipi di ogni cosa (Corano 27:16)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;it shelters you from cold &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;and it is a good substitute for chicken eggs for all its benefits [...] &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;an obscure sentence then,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; followed by two words: green and water&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;then again an uncomprehensible word that might be a conjunction followed by word which is impossible to read... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;lo, we have been taught the language of birds, and all blessings have been bestowed upon us (Quran, 27:16)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-3122295496503258013?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3122295496503258013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/3122295496503258013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/03/un-albero-che-albero.html' title='un albero, che albero?'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S4w5Hb2yGDI/AAAAAAAAACw/BdvCH9h0zXA/s72-c/manafi+al+haywaan+tree+01.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-8600671341400456544</id><published>2010-02-03T13:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T14:03:28.889-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><title type='text'>sotto sopra - upside down</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S2nwKrOEZ9I/AAAAAAAAABY/Q2qxxgBhFtY/s1600-h/tree+street.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S2nwKrOEZ9I/AAAAAAAAABY/Q2qxxgBhFtY/s200/tree+street.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434138491590305746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;l'inverno è una stagione eccellente per imparare qualcosa sulle forze in tensione che guidano l'accrescimento di un albero. per accogliere dentro di noi l'immagine della sua nuda forma. seguite la luce che si arrampica lungo il fusto e quindi si insinua fra le branche e lungo i rami fino a perdersi fra gli apici più sottili.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;la forma tradisce lo spirito che caratterizza la specie e ci racconta la storia personale dell'individuo, talvolta fino ad arrivare a dettagli insospettati: come era grande quando è stato piantato, è stato piantato o è nato spontaneo?, dove ha vissuto, le difficoltà che ha incontrato, come le ha superate... quali doni può offrirci. che cosa possiamo fare in cambio per lei! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;per iniziare a prendere confidenza con la forma degli alberi vi propongo un giochino interessante. potete farlo anche coi bambini. sostate a una certa distanza dalla vostra amica pianta, tanto da poterla abbracciare con gli occhi nella sua interezza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ecco, gustatevela. lasciate che permei il vostro campo visivo fino a che ne avrete colto il disegno e l'armonia intrinseca dentro di voi. assaporate con calma questa immagine e pian piano divenite consapevoli che state osservando grosso modo la metà della pianta, probabilmente meno della metà.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c'è un'altra pianta infatti che si estende invisibile ai nostri occhi proprio al di sotto di quella che vediamo. è la sua controimmagine, il suo doppio. cominciate a costruire con la vostra immaginazione questo albero al contrario che sono le radici del nostro gigante. l'apparato radicale, con sufficiente spazio a disposizione, si estende in ampiezza per una superficie pari o superiore a quella della chioma e raggiunge una profondità proporzionata all'altezza e alle ramificazioni del fusto. percepite il più chiaramente possibile questa immagine, arricchitela di dettagli, sentitela altrettanto viva e vigorosa della parte aerea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;e adesso percepite con il vostro sguardo interiore l'immagine che scaturisce dall'integrazione di queste due realtà: l'albero sopra e l'albero sotto. siate consapevoli che non si tratta di una vostra fantasia, l'albero che state osservando è un tutt'uno con il suo apparato radicale che lo ancora alla terra, lo sostiene e lo nutre. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;e voi come vi sentite?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wintertime is the right season to experience something about the the balancing forces that guide a tree in its development. and to allow the bare image of its form within ourselves. observe the light climing up the trunk and spreading among the branches up to where it fades away through its twigs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;form betrays the spirit standing behind the species and tells us something about the single individual, up to unexpected details at times: how big it was when it was planted - was it planted or is it wild?, in which conditions it has been living, troubles it went through, in which way it overcame them... the gift it has in store for us and what we can give or do in return for them! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;to start getting acquainted with the forms of trees i invite you to participate in a simple exercise. you can try it with kids too. stand enough far away from your chosen friend tree in order to catch sight of the whole of it at a glance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;now, you can savour it.  let it pervade your sight 'til you can catch its coherence and intrinsic harmony within yourself. quietly enjoy such sight and slowly become aware that what you're watchig is roughly a half only of your tree, likely less than a half.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;there's another tree in fact that lies invisible to our sight right underneath the one we can see. it is its reversed image, its double. slowly try and picture this upside down tree made of your giant tree's roots. a plant's root system, provided enough room to extend, covers a surface that is comparable to that of its canopy and reaches a depth that is proportionate to the plant's height and branching. try and make an image of it as clear as possible, rich of accurate details, feel it as lively and luscious as the upper part of the tree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and now be aware of what comes out of the integration of two such realities: the upper tree and the lower tree. be sure this is not about fantasizing: the tree that you are observing is one being with its root system, providing it with nourishing and getting anchoring, water and nutrients from it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and just how are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; feeling now?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-8600671341400456544?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8600671341400456544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8600671341400456544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/02/sotto-sopra-upside-down.html' title='sotto sopra - upside down'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S2nwKrOEZ9I/AAAAAAAAABY/Q2qxxgBhFtY/s72-c/tree+street.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-6974541463590202202</id><published>2010-01-24T11:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-22T13:38:56.450-07:00</updated><title type='text'>soul experiences</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fVVCrlS4I/AAAAAAAAAEY/RasYpj-_VwE/s1600-h/FLK+Buster_Ken.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fVVCrlS4I/AAAAAAAAAEY/RasYpj-_VwE/s200/FLK+Buster_Ken.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451560431428914050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:x-small;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(C) All rights reserved Buster Ken&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;there's always something i want to find a reason for. yet there are some experiences i have learnt to accept as they come and not question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i call them soul experiences. i don't necessarily look for them, they happen. i recognize them because then i'm into a different time and space. it feels silent there, even if people and traffic are bursting around me, it feels like i can hear the sound of a leaf falling onto the ground. and time opens up. it spreads out in all directions and allows me to be. there and there, being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now, you don't have to think about something extraordinary or miraculous or that i go around floating on the air, quite the opposite really. i feel grounded and perfectly there where i am, everything looks crispy and alive, the air i'm breathing in and out is sweet, what i touch responds to all of my senses as all of my senses respond to what is around me. it's like being alert without being afraid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it's very much like being in love with all that meets you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now, this is an experiential blog, i'm talking about experiences here. so i'd love you to try. to be open and alert. not to wish or wait for anything to happen. just be open and aware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you can experience this while going to the baker's, while biking to school, while sitting in an underground train. if you try and turn anything you're doing into a kind of ritual you may experience it. allow yourself to be relaxed and free from your usual preoccupations, allow your breath to calm down and listen to your heart for a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then do something: go on doing what you were doing; get up and go out, whatever you wish - yet do it from your heart, starting from your heart... and going back to your heart. see what happens, you may be surprised.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;c'è sempre qualche ragione che voglio trovare per quello che mi accade. eppure ho imparato ad accettare alcune esperienze per come mi capitano, senza indagare le loro ragioni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;le chiamo "esperienze d'anima". generalmente non le ricerco, succedono e basta. le riconosco perché in quei momenti mi trovo in un altro spazio e in un altro tempo. c'è come un silenzio allora, anche se intorno a me ruotano il traffico e le persone è come se riuscissi a percepire il suono di una foglia che cade sulla terra. e il tempo si dilata. si apre in tutte le direzioni e mi concede di essere. essere, lì e per sempre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ora, non dovete pensare a alcunché di straordinario o miracoloso o che me ne vada in giro galleggiando per aria, piuttosto il contrario. sono radicato ed esattamente lì dove mi trovo, tutto appare croccante e vivo, l'aria che respiro è dolce, quello che tocco risponde a tutti i miei sensi, come pure i miei sensi rispondono a tutto ciò che mi sta intorno. è come essere in uno stato di all'erta senza per questo aver alcun timore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;è molto simile a quel che proviamo quando siamo innamorati. e intendo... innamorati di tutto ciò che ci viene incontro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;----------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ora, questo è un blog esperienziale. parlo di cose da sperimentare qui. e mi piacerebbe che voi provaste. ad essere aperti e all'erta. senza sperare o attendersi che accada nulla. semplicemente, essere aperti e coscienti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;può essere che ti accada mentre vai dal panettiere, mentre stai pedalando per ancare a scuola, quando sei seduto in un treno della metropolitana. se provate a trasformare qualsiasi cosa stiate facendo in una azione rituale, potreste sperimentarlo. lasciatevi andare, permettete ai vostri soliti pensieri di farsi da parte, lasciate che il respiro si calmi e ascoltate il cuore per un po'. quindi fate qualcosa: continuate a far quel che stavate facendo prima; alzatevi e uscite, come volete - ma fatelo dal cuore, partendo dal cuore... e tornando nel cuore. osservate cosa succede, potreste rimanere sorpresi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-6974541463590202202?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6974541463590202202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6974541463590202202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2010/01/soul-experiences.html' title='soul experiences'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S6fVVCrlS4I/AAAAAAAAAEY/RasYpj-_VwE/s72-c/FLK+Buster_Ken.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-1549061134701702630</id><published>2009-12-26T15:19:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T14:05:05.427-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via dei libri'/><title type='text'>Soprattutto al crepuscolo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4217286036/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4217286036_3b40c11678_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0.9em;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4217286036/"&gt;espescially in the twilight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/45725803@N07/"&gt;occhidelgiardino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p&gt;"Perché il mondo dovrebbe essere solo come pensi che sia? chi ti ha dato l'autorità di dirlo?" &lt;br /&gt;"Credere che il mondo sia solo come pensi tu è stupido. Il mondo è un luogo misterioso. Soprattutto al crepuscolo."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Why should the world be only as you think it is? Who gave you the authority to say so?"&lt;br /&gt;"To believe that the world is only as you think it is, is stupid. The world is a mysterious place. Especially in the twilight."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt; C. Castaneda, &lt;em&gt;Journey to Ixtlan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-1549061134701702630?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1549061134701702630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1549061134701702630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2009/12/soprattutto-al-crepuscolo.html' title='Soprattutto al crepuscolo'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4217286036_3b40c11678_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-6209330954456125234</id><published>2009-12-23T14:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-19T16:53:26.855-08:00</updated><title type='text'>dall'acqua alla terra con amore</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4209050027/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2560/4209050027_7bd9127594_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4209050027/"&gt;derviscio rotante&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/45725803@N07/"&gt;occhidelgiardino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;la natura dorme il suo sonno anche quest'anno. cade la neve e gli alberi danzano con lei. accarezza le cose e si posa sui tetti, sulle strade, sulle auto, i lampioni e gli ombrelli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;la neve è il sogno che la natura sta sognando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;muoviti a piedi, in bici, metrò, autobus, tram o alla peggio in auto fino al primo spazio aperto che trovi, in un campo o in un parco, ancora coperto di una coltre intatta di neve. làsciati andare a questa visione di bianco splendore e apri il tuo cuore al suo incanto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;respira dolcemente, e accogli dentro di te la luce smagliante riflessa da miriadi di cristalli di neve. ogni cristallo è diverso dal suo vicino. ogni cristallo reca in sé un messaggio particolare, un'informazione dall'acqua alla terra. apriti alla forma di questo messaggio. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;danza nella neve, gioisci.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;nature is sleeping her sleep this year too. snow is falling and trees dance along with it. it gently falls over the streets and cars, rooftops and streetlamps, it caresses people's umbrellas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;falling snow is the dream that nature's dreaming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by walking, biking, using public means of transport or at worst driving, reach the closest open space you know, either a field or a lawn in a park, still coated by an intact blanket of snow. let yourself go in front of such a sight of pure white and open your heart to its splendour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;breath gently and slowly inhale this sparkling light as it is mirrored by thousands of snow crystals. each crystal is different from its neighbour. each crystal has its own special message, some information from water to the earth. be a recipient of such messages in their appearance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dance in the snow, rejoice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-6209330954456125234?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6209330954456125234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/6209330954456125234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2009/12/derviscio-rotante.html' title='dall&apos;acqua alla terra con amore'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2560/4209050027_7bd9127594_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-5941582325189627939</id><published>2009-12-21T15:31:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T14:06:02.733-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><title type='text'>compositi universi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4204817848/"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2631/4204817848_63fec8d0a2_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0pt;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4204817848/"&gt;tree dwellers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/45725803@N07/"&gt;occhidelgiardino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;un albero è una casa per una moltitudine di esseri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;recentemente mi sono sorpreso alla vista di un piccolo ragno in cammino sulla foglia di un tiglio, e che ci faceva a quell'ora di sera nel parco? :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;alle elementari sotto alle placche della corteccia dei platani scoprivo piccoli insetti alati, bianchi e neri come Arlecchini in miniatura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il muschio vellutato... e i licheni, come esseri di altri mondi, approdati su un albero come su di un pianeta  a sé stante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;l'esuvia di una cicala uncinata al fusto di una quercia mi ricorda che si può morire per rinascere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;avvicina un albero e prova a contare quante forme di vita sostiene insieme alla sua. se non ti bastano quelle che vedi va' con la memoria e la fantasia a tutte quelle che riesci a immaginare col cuore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ricorda che un albero contribuisce a sostenere anche la tua. di vita.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;a tree is a home to a multitude of beings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;recently i was taken aback at the sight of a spider walking on the leaf of a linden tree, what was he doing in the park at that hour of the evening? :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;while attending elementary school i used to find out tiny winged insects living underneath plane trees bark plates, like as many black and white miniature Harlequins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;velvety musk... and lichens, are like as many otherworldly beings landed on a tree as if on a world of its own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a cicada's empty shell tightly anchored to the bark of an oak, reminds me that we can die to a new life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;approach a tree and try and figure out how many forms of life it is nurturing along with its own. if those you can see are not enough for you, try and remember or imagine as many as you can with your heart's knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and don't forget a tree is nurturing your life as well.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-5941582325189627939?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5941582325189627939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/5941582325189627939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2009/12/compositi-universi.html' title='compositi universi'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2631/4204817848_63fec8d0a2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-8488603092734895588</id><published>2009-12-20T12:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-22T13:48:50.720-07:00</updated><title type='text'>alberi illuminati</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4200767732/"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/4200767732_0137127356_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="photo_navi_contact" id="photo_navi_contact_span_11183235@N02"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;(C) All rights reserved Djehuti on Flickr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;che ne sarebbe di un Buddha senza il suo albero?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;what would it be of a Buddha without his tree?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-8488603092734895588?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8488603092734895588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/8488603092734895588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2009/12/alberi-illuminati.html' title='alberi illuminati'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/4200767732_0137127356_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-1966563567280766379</id><published>2009-12-20T10:46:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T14:07:08.867-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><title type='text'>presenze amiche</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S3CbnTCVmbI/AAAAAAAAABg/Kfsm6JvKWf4/s1600-h/tree+prune.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S3CbnTCVmbI/AAAAAAAAABg/Kfsm6JvKWf4/s200/tree+prune.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436015849663470002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0pt;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4200014193/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gli alberi in città, doppiamente da salvaguardare. in quanto esseri viventi certamente e per le importanti funzioni che svolgono all'interno dell'ecosistema urbano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;l'elenco lo trovate in qualsiasi articolo scientifico sull'argomento: trattenimento delle polveri, assorbimento dell'anidride carbonica - prodotta in abbondanza in contesti ad elevata densità animale, attutimento dei rumori, raffrescamento dell'aria, &lt;em&gt;landscape marks&lt;/em&gt; - punti di riferimento estetico e socio-culturale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ma c'è dell'altro che nei testi scientifici non ci raccontano, gli alberi sono presenze amiche. quando siete in preda allo sconforto, quando tutto vi sembra oscuro e confuso, quando vi sentite demotivati e appestati - uscite di casa, prendetevi uno stacco dal lavoro e raggiungete il primo albero che vi viene in mente. raggiungetelo a piedi, in bici, in tram, col metrò, in autobus e alla peggio in macchina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;come lo intravvedete cominciate a respirare piano, con maggior consapevolezza, cercate di avvicinarlo come fareste con un vecchio amico che non vedete da tempo. lui è lì, che vi aspetta. potete star sicuri che da quando vi siete messi in moto per raggiungerlo, anche lui ha cominciato a sentire qualcosa, come un moto di anticipazione per un incontro inatteso. anche lui ha cominciato a prepararsi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;così salutatelo quando siete vicini e cercate di entrare con rispetto nella sua sfera vitale. rimanete aperti al suo abbraccio. sarete stupiti di sentire come la percezione del vostro stato cambia. un albero sa attendere. un albero sopporta. un albero accoglie. un albero offre. un albero scambia. e soprattutto ringrazia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ecco. e tutte queste qualità un albero può insegnarcele, basta essere aperti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;urban trees, twice to be valued. for themselves for sure as living entities and for the unquestionable benefits they play within a urban area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;you can find a description of such role played by trees in any scientific paper dealing with it: dust filtering; so aboudant in towns carbon dioxide absorbtion; noise muffling; lowering of surrounding air temperature; aesthetic and cultural benefit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;yet there's something else you will not find in a scientific paper: trees are loving friends. when you feel down and out, when you see nothing but darkness and confusion, when you feel nothing makes sense anymore - get out, take a break from your work and reach the first tree that comes to your mind. get there on foot, bike there, use a tram or underground trains, drive there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;as you catch sight of it, star being aware of your breath, allow your breath to calm down. get close to it as you would with a friend you haven't seen in a while. your tree is there, and it is waiting for you. you can be sure of this, that as you were getting ready to meet it, the tree itself started feeling something, foreseeing an unexpected meeting. the tree itself started getting ready.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;you can greet it as you're getting closer and entering with respect within its vital energetic sphere. stay open while being embraced by the tree. you'll be surprised to realize how the way you feel is changing. trees can wait. trees are patient. trees are welcoming. trees are generous. trees relate. and trees say thanks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that's it. and such qualities we can learn from trees. what it takes is just being open to them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-1966563567280766379?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1966563567280766379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/1966563567280766379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2009/12/presenze-amiche.html' title='presenze amiche'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S3CbnTCVmbI/AAAAAAAAABg/Kfsm6JvKWf4/s72-c/tree+prune.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-7008305755883671663</id><published>2009-12-19T04:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T14:07:46.214-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la via degli alberi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the way of trees'/><title type='text'>sentinelle silenziose</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4196591863/"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2685/4196591863_38586551e4_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0pt;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45725803@N07/4196591863/"&gt;oak tree&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/45725803@N07/"&gt;occhidelgiardino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;sulla nostra strada, quanti alberi hanno segnato il nostro cammino?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ti ricordi all'asilo? quando giocavi a nascondino, e contavi... uno... due... tre...  loro erano lì. sentinelle silenziose, i nostri alberi custodi...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;poi sei cresciuto, sei andato in vacanza, al mare, in montagna, al campeggio e in albergo. loro erano sempre lì. vegliavano su di te.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;adesso hai una casa, mobili, porte, parquet. gli alberi sono ancora qui. con te. loro ti aspettano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;non aspettano da te che un segno di riconoscimento, un gesto d'affetto, una carezza d'albero per poterti offrire gli altri doni che hanno in serbo per te.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;anche gli Alberi festeggiano il Natale! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;do you remember at pre-school? playing hide and seek? and counting one... two... three... they were already there. silent wathmens, our guardian trees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then you grew up. you went on holidays, to the seaside, mountains, summer camp and hotels. they were always there. watching over you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you've got a house now, furniture, doors, a wooden floor. trees are still here with you. they're waiting for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they're just waiting to be aknowlegded by you, that you may show them your affection, stroke them, in order to offer you the gifts they've been saving for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you know, trees too celebrate Christmas! ;-)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-7008305755883671663?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7008305755883671663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/7008305755883671663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2009/12/sntinelle-silenziose.html' title='sentinelle silenziose'/><author><name>Sergio Dimartino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05998237784021371085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/TAu9JrSROJI/AAAAAAAAAJY/1AMbaRoWbK0/S220/4675187740_663efdc266_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2685/4196591863_38586551e4_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984480545585384080.post-4553663352752870737</id><published>2009-12-15T13:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-08T15:21:37.442-08:00</updated><title type='text'>di alberi e abbracci</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S3Ccd3NDpFI/AAAAAAAAACI/8Ev_j2Bo5jU/s1600-h/tree+hug.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cCGzTHVULMc/S3Ccd3NDpFI/AAAAAAAAACI/8Ev_j2Bo5jU/s200/tree+hug.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436016787085042770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;già. qualcuno mi chiede che cos'è un abbraccio d'albero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;andate là fuori e provatelo di persona. che cos'è un abbraccio d'albero. quando siete colmi di gioia, quando non sapete con chi condividerla, quando un'irrefrenabile voglia di abbracciare il mondo vi coglie, andate là fuori e abbracciate un albero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fatelo piano, come se fosse un bimbo o un germoglio in primavera. circondatelo con le vostre braccia, appoggiando piano il viso sulla sua corteccia, assaporate le sensazioni che dai polpastrelli arrivano fino al cuore e da lì si espandono fino ai piedi e a tutta la vostra persona.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;è una benedizione in forma d'abraccio. l'albero si avvolge intorno a voi come state facendo voi con lui. vi accoglie nella sua chioma come in un tempio e vi dona il suo abbraccio. come una preghiera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;è un'esperienza che potete fare tutti i giorni o una volta ogni tanto. non ha controindicazioni. fatto salvo che può - occasionalmente - causare dipendenza, estasi involontarie, stati alterati di coscienza, espansione delle percezioni sensoriali. innamoramento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;buoni abbracci! ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;yes. someone is asking me what a tree hug is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;go out there and try it yourself what a tree hug is. when you're overwhelmed with joy and you do not know whom to share it with, when you're being seized by an unconsolable urge to hug the whole world, go out there and hug a tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;be gentle. as if you were handling a baby or a bud in Spring. embrace him with your arms, and gently rest your cheeks upon his bark. sense the experience starting from your fingertips and arms up to your heart and from here down to your feet and the rest of your body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it's a blessing in the form of a hug. the tree is embracing you as you're doing with him. he's receiving you under his dome as if in a temple to provide you with his hug. like a prayer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it's a practice you can perform everyday or once in a while. there are no contraindications. apart that - occasionally - you may become addicted to it, experience altered states of consciousness, involuntary ecstasies, higher sense perceptions. a crush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sweet hugs!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6984480545585384080-4553663352752870737?l=abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4553663352752870737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6984480545585384080/posts/default/4553663352752870737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abbracciodalbero.blogspot.com/2009/12/di-alberi-e-abbracci.html' title='di alberi e abbracci'/><author><name>Sergio 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