It is time to get rid of
All the Bad Things
And the Sad Thoughts
Weighing on my Soul
Like Uninvited Guests
I have washed away
All of Them and opened
My Window to the Good
And let the Fresh Air in
On this New Year's Day
Vera da Pozzo, Somewhere in Italy, Wednesday, January 1st, 2025
(C) Vera da Pozzo
(C) Italy is Mine
(C) Italy is Mine and It owes Me a Living
Below, the artwork I made between the New Year's Eve and the New Year's Day.
Sing your Life (and dance it, and draw it) on New Year's Eve.
Picture took after midnight, when we opened some Baci chocolates.
I had an idea which is extremely tempting, but I will keep it hidden till I manage to realize it.
I like chocolate, but I have never been a fanatic eater of it and living in France have not changed my habits. Nevertheless, I have always enjoyed and I still enjoy some chocolates like these ones. They are smaller than they used to be when I was a child (and no, it is not because my hands have grown, for I have the same small hands I had when I was eleven, while the rest of my body continued to grow during my teens) and now the messages are written just in Italian and in English, while they were usually translated in four languages. Spanish, German and French have disappeared, et pour cause: the paper wrapping the chocolate "kiss" has shrunk too.
Thankfully, I did not find some mawkish quotes, and they are from two from my favourite Authors: Edgar Allan Poe for the first quote from the short story Ligeia, published in 1838.
I think that strangeness is almost always in the eyes of certain people who lack imagination and judge other human beings just at a glance, without observing and knowing them; and, very often, people who are called "normal" are simply persons who lack imagination, personality and passion and can be extremely boring.
The second quote is from Le Petit Prince (1943) by Antoine the Saint-Exupéry, the very first book I read when I was almost six - I read it by myself in its Italian translation, of course, in the excellent edition by Bompiani, with the illustrated biography of "Saint-Ex".
The original French quote says:
"On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux". (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince)
Since my first read of Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince, the Fox is, for me, the ideal Friend: not just the model of the friends I would like to have, but the model of the friend I want to be, for my friends and for myself.
Below, a picture taken by me today, which illustrates the Little Prince's fondness for sunsets. Where I am now, I can enjoy both sunrises and sunsets, and this fills me with great joy.
This morning, as yesterday evening, I was happy to share my time with the people I love, glad to watch some footage from Morrissey's New Year's Eve gig at the Hollywood Palladium and amused by the placard showed by the man himself, wishing us a "Happy New You" - below, the screenshot from baby j's video, on his (or hers) YouTube channel.
Happy New Year and Happy New You to You, too.
Above: a beautiful card from the cartoonist and illustrator Michel Kichka's blog-notes; Michel and his wife Olivia wish us all a better year, and I think that all of us could start to be a better version of ourselves in order to make a better year.
Of course, I cannot do that for people who are not willing (there will always be Anger, Bitterness and Evil on legs in this world) but, as for me, I will stay true to Myself and loyally stick to all that really matters in Life.
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