Blessed Unrest

This message is hard to write. What I want to end up saying is YOU: DO SOMETHING. There is a lot of torture, corruption, waste, environmental damage, violence... and love is supposed to be... umh... all around...

I have everything to lose. That's the first thing that comes to my mind when I look back and realise I joined Amnesty International. Some weeks ago, for the first time, I cried for something that was not myself and my really tiny love troubles... the world aches, we do have the right 'not to know' but also a major responsibility by sharing this planet -while we are around- with humans, animals, plants...


So, before 'Awakening the Dreamer' the shape of my heart was completely different. I thought that 'the power of one' was something rare and bond only to remarkable people. Being part of a cause was a waste of time - we were all doomed anyway.


What is 'Awakening the Dreamer'? In a nut-shell, it is the idea of healing the Earth. Like a cell, each human can be part of the immune system of the world through environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment.


So I am not chaining myself to embassies or becoming a full-time hippie. I still like getting my Vogue each month and jogging. There is however in me the 'blessed unrest' Paul Hawken talks about and each step I take from now on will aim at taking care of others outside myself. It is actually a very strong shift that if everybody experienced, could make living here easier - and here I do not talk only about the rainforest and the gorillas.


They say each mind is a world... so what if a few of us change our minds...


Awakening the Dreamer
Amnesty International

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or how to stop feeling sorry for yourself

I deleted most of my last year's blogs.

For quite some time, there were no thoughts, no lyrics, no art. There was only being in some kind of love 24/7 that left me empty. I had no energy left to see the beauty (not that there was not some around).

It is not that everything lightened up now, but I saw Le Scaphandre et le Papillon and the biggest message from the movie is that when you stop feeling sorry for yourself, the world starts making sense. So many things to write, to see, to enjoy! And so little a life we have...

Le scaphandre et le papillon - trailer

Beautiful movie, amazing photography, really well acted. Not pathetic at all when telling the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the Elle Chief Editor who could only blink an eye after a massive stroke (and wrote a book before dying). I cannot imagine this being told by anyone different than Julian Schnabel. Hollywood? More light, better looking actors, action, action, action. It was perfect this way...