“I asked Eileen to remove all the mirrors. I used to like them, but not anymore. Mirrors are too sincere, and a woman can only accept the truth so much.” And so Veronica McCreedy will have all the mirrors moved to the back room, where Eileen, the woman who takes […]
Prolonged drought, torrid summers interrupted by storms and disastrous floods are the daily news in this devastated territory of ours. The life of those who cultivate the land becomes more difficult every day: a big storm or a hailstorm is enough to lose entire crops and months of work in […]
The flora, and obviously the fauna, which has colonized the circum-Mediterranean territory, has had to face a very particular situation: rainfall concentrated only in a few months, with consequent long dry periods and a long annual photoperiod. These characteristics lead to consider the Mediterranean climate as subtropical. In fact, the […]
All over the world, the fires that flare up and devour thousands of hectares of forests and green areas are increasingly frequent, an environmental and social scourge that reappears every year with new strength and is linked to human and cultural, climatic, vegetational, and morphological factors. The progressive abandonment of […]
SEPTEMBER, let’s go.It’s time to migrate.Now in the land of Abruzzo my shepherdsthey leave the pens and go towards the sea:they descend to the wild Adriaticthat is green like the pastures of the mountains.The Shepherds – Gabriele D’Annunzio Transhumance is true migration, a behavior of regular commuting between two places […]