what's new?: ottobre 2008

giovedì 30 ottobre 2008

What's new...with HALLOWEEN!

BLACK COLOUR IS GOOD FOR ADOLESCENTS !!!

In western society we do always avoid to dress children with black colour, because it reminds us the colour of mourning, death, suffering… Their dress is always made with joyful colours, and we almost pretend it’s for them, to make them feel positive to life…
Well, I suppose it’s especially for us adults, and against bad luck: children may like black, but you can rarely find it in any dressing or educational outfit.

Have we asked them if they would like to have a black T-shirt? Anyway not any mother would like to see her baby dressed in black!

Till now I can remember children dressed in black only at carnival :only the witch, the doctor, Darth Vader… and now even Spiderman has a “dark side” (one red, one black!) . The only good one is Zorro, as an exception, the first step to think of black, to think of action in the society…

I’ve learnt that the desire of adolescents to suddenly dress in black is the “mourning of their childhood”… well I think it’s really different, it’s their declaration to us that they want to try to play as adults with the colour that we have avoided them to use… but only as a GAME yet!

Effectively IT’S THE PARENT’S MOURNING of his son’s childhood, but for the adolescent IT’S THE beginning o f the “PARTY OF REAL LIFE”.

And HALLOWEEN is the moment where all children are allowed to dress awful.

Attentive and intelligent parents,( far from our modern and technological society!) the Celtic parents, let their children at least once pretend to be awfully dangerous and black, and face Death, dressing its outfits… and parents dressed too (as it happens now) and laughed, maybe bitterly, but silently, not to influence the children to grow up and go away. Which is the hardest sacrifice for a parent, a decent one.

Everywhere, in ancient world cultures, BLACK and DEATH are often used in stories and dances.
To immunize, strengthen, and not to fall in the dangerous hole of fear, attachment, control, excessive safety manners…

(This is my own personal opinion according to my studies and contacts with life-experiences of the adolescents’)

Danielle Grand-Homme

lunedì 13 ottobre 2008

Prix Nobel Littérature 2008 "Le Clézio"
What's new...with Nobel Litterature 2008
A man that writes and wants us to know how everyday life really is where we don't know... no magic, no cult, no wonderful images from a no-where land; magic is under the petals of a flower, as well as violence, as torture, as dreams, as deceptions...The "there-place" is always attracting to us, but we generally know what superficial culture, made of money, and travel agents, want us to know... we think it to be so different from ours; yes, under some aspects it may be, but the blood of it, the substance has the same flavour as our everyday life, and sometimes it's more "spicy"... or even "bitter", though enrobed with laughs, smile, childish happiness.We think to our life, every moment, and often we forget there are billions of lives around us on the globe.Well, good news then, someone has pointed out the hidden faces of life... we're not "alone"!

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