Ivostri figli non sono figli vostri. ((Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.You may give them your love but not your thoughts,For they have their own thoughts.You may[…]
Letture e riflessioni
Il padrone del mio destino, il capitano della mia anima
Outof the night that covers me,Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tears[…]
Perciò era nobilmente pigro
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Amava anche la fisica, ma[…]
Ben aspra dev’esser la tempesta

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That could abash the little BirdThat kept[…]
I voti sono una misura di progresso, non di potenziale
Weassume that grades are a measure of mathematical promise. This is not a correct assumption, for many reasons. I used to worry that a student getting Bs in college math courses wouldn’t be successful in graduate school. But I’ve seen many now who have gotten their PhDs and have flourished as mathematicians.Grades are a[…]
Pensieri di fine estate
Route Nazionale del 1997 di cui ho […]
Neirecenti giorni passati sono successe un paio di cose, sconnesse ma in qualche modo correlate, che mi hanno stimolato qualche pensiero che provo a sistematizzare. Mettendo a posto la cantina di casa ho ritrovato un po’ di vecchie foto degli anni di servizio scout (tra cui quella della Pose improbabili da manichini sotto steroidi

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Un invito a vedere

(...) For one thing, the Holy Family wasn’t white. For another, they weren’t rich. And they weren’t powerful. But there’s another reason I like this image, beyond the clever visual puns. It is, again, the invitation to see Jesus in the “least” of our brothers and sisters. So, when[…]