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Miriam 54– May is here, the month I love the most. The month of blooming jasmines that fill the streets with their sweet scent while I take, in the afternoon, by foot, the children to play sports. The month of the end of the school and of Saturdays in the park, of the first days […]

Miriam 53– These last days of April have the same colours, the same scents, the same emotions of an April of ten years ago. I had just entered the ninth month of pregnancy, expecting Vittoria. I was excited at the idea of starting a new adventure, happy to finally look at the face of that […]

Andrea 52 – I bought some plants this morning. But not as I usually did, calling the florist to hastily order a plant to pick up in a rush and bring as a gift to a friend. I brought some plants to plant them myself, to transform two pots full of weeds that we have […]

Miriam 51 – Dear Andre, our blog has always been an honest window on our daily lives. Today, honestly, it was a strange day, slowed down, full of gloomy thoughts about the imminent future. Full of real and deep doubts about what’s going to happen, from here to a week, to my job, for instance, […]

Andrea 50 – Change of perspectives. For 50 days I have been looking at the world from the same place, my home, but from many different points of view. I had never had the opportunity and the will to identify myself with the stories of others, to seek ideas for comparison and concretely touch the […]

Miriam 49 – Dear Andre, on this Sunday of late April 2020 we really start, for the first time since 1000 red km exists, to think about “tomorrow”, intended as a restart, a recovery. Phase two is imminent, we can say that now. Today, on WhatsApp, you told me about your job that starts again, […]

Andrea – I woke up this morning, at home ciao, at home ciao, at home ciao ciao ciao. I woke up this morning, and we were still locked up. I’m Italian, vaccine and out from home ciao, home ciao, home ciao ciao ciao, I’m Italian, vaccine and out, that I feel like going bankrupt. And […]

Miriam 47 – How many times have I used, dear Andre, the example of a butterfly’s flap to explain how an almost insignificant little event may be the beginning of a series of events that, as in a domino, chase each other and collide until they cause something else absolutely unexpected, on the other side […]

Andrea 46 – My body changing: from day 1 to day 40. The progressive change of my lifestyle has had consequences even on my body. “My body changing, in shape and colour”, sang Piero Pelù in the summer of 1999, the one of our high school diploma. My body that has changed, in shape and […]

Miriam 45 – Up until this unusual break invested our lives, everyone in their own field was an actor of something and the spectator of something else. The two sides of the same coin alternated, fitting together perfectly. Actors in our everyday life, in our work, in our moments of leisure. Spectators of what the […]

Andrea 44 – 44 days, lined up for 6 weeks (at home), with the remainder of 2. In or out. In: we have built our habits, we move nimbly, we smart work and we see our children, those who get on our heads during the videocalls that we somehow manage to follow. Out: they cannot […]

Miriam 43 – To have survived this period, dear Andre, and to see the light slowly approaching, was not that obvious at the beginning of our 1000km journey. When we started writing to each other, we did it, firstly, to make sure that the other was fine, that he had no symptoms, that he was […]

Andrea 42– In Turin, the far north of our 1000 red km, it’s raining. And the news is not this one, but the previous 41 days quarantine, where, as far as I can remember, I’ve never seen water fall from the sky. When it happens after so many days, my feelings are always the same. […]

Miriam 41 – Today I feel, dear Andre, that it’s time to deal with what it’s going to happen in a while, what everybody has started talking about more and more in the past few days. It’s time to set a new date on our calendars, a new milestone, or a landing time, just to […]

Andrea 40 – On the fortieth day of quarantine I focused on what is the thing that most off all gets me frustrated: uncertainty. That middle ground between the regret for things that didn’t happen and the reality of those that have taken on a definite outline. But it’s not just that for me: uncertainty […]

Miriam 39 – Dear Andre, happy 39th day of quarantine. Tomorrow we will leave the thirties behind and we will step into the forties, just like it will happen to you and me in a few months. And suddenly, your eighteen’s birthday party comes into my mind, you know the one I didn’t show up […]

Miriam 38 – The ten most important things I learned/understood/discovered after 38 days of isolation from the world, and which I will no longer be able to do without, are: 1) I learned that you need to let brioche dough rest for at least four hours, otherwise it gets difficult to digest; 2) I discovered […]

Miriam 37 – Dear Andre, today I thought a lot, thanks to a “Diary of the Italians” that was posted around lunch time. The author’s name is Mattia, and she finishes her diary by asking a question to you, to me, but also to our long red couch. In this month of quarantine, she says […]

Andrea 36 – With this last piece of pastiera my Easter 2020 is officially over, with a positive outcome: I learned how to make the casatiello and pasta with the left-over lamb sauce from the day before, I trained, I read a book and I managed to focus on a few things and many people, […]

Miriam 35 – Happy Easter Andre! And happy Easter to those who today experimented their first “pastiera”, “torta pasqualina” or “casatiello”, to those who had lunch in video conference, to those who were woken up by screaming children, dying to open their first chocolate eggs. Happy Easter to those who listened, in streaming, to the […]

Andrea 34 – Stop. Today I needed an afternoon nap. The “pennichella”, as they would say in Rome, or the “siesta” as they would say in Madrid. The one my mother would force me to take when I was a kid, on vacation, as I would listen from the balcony all the voices form the […]

Miriam 33 – Many weird coincidences, today, dear Andre. A chase of opposites. Good Friday is Death’s day par excellence, Death with a capital letter, the Death of a Man that today is celebrated all over the world. Then there is the day of our diary, the thirty-third, 33 as Christ’s age. Everything seemed to […]

Andrea 32 – Good thing we have smartphones, which my parents still call just “phones” and my English boss “mobile phones”. And those transparent dots up on the screen, that bring us into each other’s homes. The cameras of our real life. In the next few days, I want to keep them on, so that […]

Miriam 31 – Today I feel weird, dear Andre. Today I didn’t want to stop and think about anything, I was fleeing every moment of solitude, I did everything I could to keep myself busy, especially mentally. And so now, stopping and telling my day puts me in front of the real reason why I’ve […]

Miriam 30 – Thirty days, Andre. Thirty days of the diary, thirty days of mixed emotions, of tears of joy and fear, of disregarded waits and new hopes, thirty days that our blog is online. Thirty days with all our friends who, like us, tell their days for no other reason than being part of […]

Andrea 29 – I lost my instinct for some gestures. Tomorrow I’m going to collect some grocery shopping. On day 30 I will go out for the first time, thanks to some online shopping I did a few days ago. So this morning I decided to start the car: I get in, start the engine, […]

Miriam 28 – Happy Palm Sunday Andre! And happy Palm Sunday to our blog, that from now on will wear its good suit, the one for the festivities. The one we would wear on Palm Sunday, when we were kids, for that never-ending and incomprehensible mass, given that we would celebrate the entry into the […]

Andrea 27 – There are scripts that haven’t been written. They represent the time we still have available to live. The time to think about new projects and try to achieve them. The 4th of April is a date particularly close to my heart. A day that 11 years ago changed my life and in […]

Miriam 26 – Today, dear Andre, is our 29th day of quarantine, but it’s also the 3rd of April 2020, a day I’ll remember for a long time. Once again IT is gaining ground, feeding on our certainties. You know I don’t want to call it by its name, I promised I wouldn’t at the […]

Miriam 25– Dear Andre, today I got out for the first time to go to the pharmacy. And this information, that would be a stupid and insignificant update in any other historical moment, now takes on a whole new meaning.  As it takes on a whole new meaning the route I made on foot, which […]