on the road … or caminito
By maria | January 20, 2008
I ‘ve not been here for a while, but as they say in Italy ” chi non muore si rivede” ( who does not dye we shall see again)…Well at least I can see my shadow, or something like it. I am on the road again, trying to relocate in London. Decided it was best to intermitt money meet life meet… growing.
I know it is getting more and more difficult to understand what I mean, but than imagine if you are in my head.
For now a big hug to you all and will post soon again, thank you to all of you that have lightened my journey. XXX
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working on the floor
By maria | November 6, 2007
Hello beautiful friends and forgive the not keeping in touch but well…. sometime life is more demanding than others… and mine seem to be always of the first kind.
I spend most of my days rushing from one activity to the next and last sunday evening I took a breather…
I don’t know exactly what I am doing but for sure I am doing a lot, that is all I can tell.
Trying to come to terms that indeed I am now in Little Britain, is slowly sinking in, as the sharing the house with new people is also. It is not that I have a choice… but than houses have always been a touchy subject for me haven’t they.
I am beginning to understand something about this course but far from feeling I get it.
But I walk on.
And take my tango steps in my imaginary Milonga, and needless to say my work is now about …
LONGING FOR TANGO.
yes because using the floorboards as and the music is as far as I get to step tango.
hehe! Yes once more I managed to include it, also because otherwise I will die.
I mean I have not danced in more than 5 weeks!!! and any tango addict will begin to decay at this point…
So in order to keep the spirit alive I have started an informal tango club, where I am experimenting with exercises and where I can get a chance to meet potential addictive tango personalities.
What else?
Antonio is coming to town on Saturday!
lala’ LLALLA’
LALALALLALALALA’
and it will be Tango la’
that is all the news from Sisilly in Cornwall.
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one step at the time…
By maria | October 22, 2007
Yes, I am still here in Cornwall, in the studio space up at “Woodlane”.
After the initial shock and a total disoriented feeling… and after having considered all possible ways and reasons I could run away from Cornwall and the course I came here to do….
I resisted temptation and I have realized I am here to stay now and get on with it all.
I mean how is a person to know if she/he is doing the right thing?
We are not given rehearsal time in life, life is the rehearsal ,does it go like that?
So what am I doing here I thought, yes the course mh?? but what link is there with Cornwall and me in particular? how can I feel at home? and where is the Tango of my life.? I have been tangoless for more than 4 weeks now…ARGHH
And since I cannot shut up, and especially I cannot shut up about Tango, I met Joel , who works in a bar, who while working overheard a lady talking about a dance studio, who was looking for a tango dancer or someone to share some tango steps with.
Joel gave me the number, I rang and met Teejay, visited her dance studio which in this instance happens to be a converted squash court…. and off we go.
We are going to start a tango club in Falmouth.
And so while I am getting to plant a new seed in Cornwall, I also found the link to my path, follow the steps and the Tango will lead you…
I don’t know how but… I will try to use Tango a my research theme in my MA course and see what comes from taking this walk one step at the time.
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I RINSE MY DISHES CAMPAIGN….
By maria | September 30, 2007
Can someone please tell the British how to rinse their dishes?
thank you kindly
Sisilly
to be continued
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Cornwall Here I come
By maria | September 25, 2007
I actually made it! I am here… and a bit shaky that is. But all considered all is well.
I feel like I have fallen down from the moon, onto I don’t know which reality…
I suppose this is a wake up call.
I managed to get here in tre days instead of one, the reason ? do we need a reason?
well there is a reason but it could just be any other…. I was scared of making my train thicket on line.
Yes in this day and time there is still technophobia, and I am affected. But I ended having a lovely time with the Shaba’s visiting friends. She is in south America but we were her visiting traveling guests. Managed to bake a cake and ate it too.
And …
3 days later here I am. Got here Monday night and it was dark. I never before today had the luck to have a room before I got in a new place, so I was so relaxed that I had to invent something to make it worth while getting a little agitated and late…. I looked up for a way out and I realized I actually got off at the wrong station.
Am I still reading the signs?
Yes, but which ones? Obviously not the locality ones.
Monday night was last night.
New place, new house, new people that I will share my living environment.
And new beating in my heart which is hard to explain.
After the usual practicalities, went to the bank, shopping for food, did a bit of nesting…
I found myself in the kitchen chopping decisively 10 hot chilly peppers and I boiled them in hot extra virgin olive oil, than people started to appear in the house flatmates and landlady and kid..
Is this what they call alchemy? I don’t know but surely enough there are here and there few signs that I cannot describe but I read out somewhere that bewitch me.
Like now in the cafe’ I am all the glasses hanging from the ceiling are vibrating hitting each other and there is not even a earthquake…
But there is…
Well I am excited, tired, energetic and scared all at the same time.
So cheers Cornwall and to the alchemy that might arise from Falmouth.
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pulling the curtain…
By maria | August 27, 2007
t is that time again… That time that regularly seems to knock at my doorstep of my life.
Or maybe it is me that keeps knocking?
whichever the knocking the curtain is being drawn here in Sicily, and the glorious lights keep shining.
Here I am the last days before departure, the packing in progress, the chaos goes on, the feelings totally high and alert, and the thoughts ,absolutely scrambled.
I am trying to take time and so I could not help myself, as this time last year I changed my thicket.
The planning the journey in advance to save money does not seem to work for me, but well that is the price one gladly pays.
This time is a splendid one every time, and every time devastating.
So just a note to say I am pulling the curtain, tying the knots, thinking of you all close and far away beautiful friends.
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Catania Tango Festival 2007, the fireworks
By maria | August 20, 2007
It is impossible to describe all the events that took place and the feelings that sparked from this 10 days of constant dance, with some hours of sleep, a few bites to eat, lots of people to meet …
An endless present which seemed never to cease.
it is not easy to keep away the always forth coming awareness of my next departure, I would like to take Sicily with me. And in my feet… I definetely will.
This dancing feast felt like a shower of fireworks in the summer nights, A big thank you to all tangheri that contributed to the happiness. And sorry for the bad quality of the video but one can always try.. and so I do.
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another year begins
By maria | August 2, 2007
I shouldn’t do this to my self but I do… lalala’.
The thirty something day has arrived and true to the tradition the day was spent celebrating the goodness and glory of sisillian FOOD!
yes yes, after a full first course and second course rigorously seafood inspired and cooked by lovely mamma Lucia, we ate and ate and ATE. Till water mellon time.
Than following my wish I was presented with my cake number 1 a selection of fresh fruit granitas (fruit sorbet) with candles presented by Tom Sayer.
8 Flavours called for 8 wishes and so it took some time to list them all mentally but not so long after all they are always present…
Needless to say none of us could move much after the feast so we proceeded to lie down and have a siesta in front of a movie.
and after that? well round 5 pm. another cake made its appearance, a beautiful millefoglie filled with ymminess!!!
Unbelievable we managed to eat this too….
and I made one more wish, so than all in the world may have such abundance on their day.
So this is to thank Nonnina for her magic presence, Mamix for her constant love, Alex for her sharing, Blu for not attacking me on the day, Peppe for offering the homely shelter, Ketty and Lorenzo for the blooming notes, Claudia for the lovely chat, Ricky for the warm feelings, Renata for the orange blessings, the Clarinettian to call by and make me laugh loud, Hanna for her gentle voice, Elvira and Ruben for their warm embrace, Lidia, Annalisa, Alberto, Davide e Silvia for their happy wishes.
And to you far away lovely friends that have contributed to enrich my life so far, thus allowing me to fully feel the blessing that no matter what keep coming forth.
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postcard from somewhere
By maria | July 27, 2007
I am tired, dead tired, but I keep on this dance called life….
the one that stops is the one that is lost…
and I would only like to find myself…
lalala’
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how the world has seen us portraied..
By maria | July 24, 2007
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