Author Archive for Arianna Neri

I had always wondered about life. Setting up a toolbox of rules and measures was one of my top priorities until that one (un?)lucky day when I woke up and all the collection of data I was securing was mysteriously gone.

Life is all about choices.
I came to realise.
I also came to realise that my main choice in life has been to walk.

At the beginning, I felt slightly astonished. Glancing at my life, I realized that it was all gone, in a matter of instants. I thought about it for more than what seemed an endless second and the result wouldn’t change. I lost my job. Funny how fast I became an actual victim of this worldwide [...]

Once there was the ant, saver and thoughtful. She was able to look forward, calculating expenses, saving seeds and tiny pieces of whatever for the cold cold winter. I need to save, I need to have, she’d stress The cicada, shallow and shopaholic, jigging about through hot and shiny summers, wouldn’t bother with savings and [...]

The Moon was talking to her, smirking with that “I know things” look. Round-faced, eyes shut, big mouth, the Moon felt like sharing some secrets. The central London sky was burdening on the city with its grey weight of un-rained clouds.    You will soon be there. Where? There. But that is not an answer. [...]

One Sunday afternoon in 1994, my dad came to pick me up at my mom’s place. Funny enough, kids of divorced families tend to have a double residency and plenty of clothes, toys and books at both locations. That was not my case. I have always lived with my mom and barely spent a full [...]

Today the topic of this ‘tickle’ came to me like an illumination, a glimpse of light from above. Would anyone call it enlightenment? You single? Yes. It is a long story filled with suitcases and international travels, me moving Monday and no one able to follow my route, me longing for love but me refusing [...]