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Incredulously Watching the Sink

  My feelings towards the USA are extremely conflicting... Actually they are deep ambivalent because I can't come to terms with the growing visceral sense of disgusted disbelief!  ​I once deeply esteemed the States for their perceived inner freedom. Substantially, this freedom, is not because they are innately better than us in Europe, but because they do not carry the weight of such a long and heavy past. Europe’s history, full of glories and immense brutality, burdens us. This history has made us cautious, clinging firmly to the experienced beneficial path. Consequently, truly radical change—daring to leap into the "completely out of the blue" —is often a rare or impossible choice. ​Not so in the States. This capacity to dare is why they achieve scientific discoveries that might take Europe an eternity to reach. ​And yet, this blessed capacity to dare, however, is two-edged. This very same boundless freedom now exposes the terrible price they are paying. When freedom la...
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Weeks of "fire"

These have been two weeks of incredibly high temperature. June is never so hot! It was like being in July and August. 

But from today heavy rains are expected. Therefore today may become the worse day: when the fiery hot weather doesn't want to give in and fights its extreme battle to predominate.

On one side Summer is advancing with great boldness and on the other  dawn is receding. The earliest sun rising was at 5.36 (i.e. 4.36 solar time) on the equinox, the 21st of June. Now, on the last day of June it is already 4 minutes later, at 5.40 (4.40 solar time).

I get up very very early, usually at 5, but often even earlier, and I like to spy on the rising sun. For me it's an event that makes me happy. Especially in Spring when dawn comes earlier and earlier. 

Then the equinox arrives and the next cycle begins, with its slowing down. And somehow it's a paradox, because it is exactly when the strength of the sun is instead increasing! It feels strange inside... 


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