Dove e quando si nasce sono determinanti per definire la personalità e influenzare il carattere di ciascuno di noi. Non debbono essere considerati comunque come elementi che irreversibilmente segnano il nostro cammino.
Non conosco l’ora in cui nacqui-mio padre compilava e conservò per anni il libro di famiglia ma non so che fine abbia fatto-: secondo alcune teorie anche questa è importante.
Il luogo è ancora lì, ancora abitato, e l’ho visitato alcuni anni fa. (Massimo Veltri)

Where and when we are born are crucial to defining our personality and influencing our character. However, they should not be considered as elements that irreversibly mark our path.
I don’t know the time I was born and according to some theories, the time we are born is also important in influencing character.
My father compiled and kept the family book for years but I don’t know what happened to it; so I have no information about the time of day I was born.
What I can tell you is that the place where I was born is still there, still inhabited, and I visited it a few years ago.

The featured image or thumbnail is the morning sky through my large windows. The above image is of me in Aprigliano, in 2006 looking down on the stairs of the home I grew up in. As kids Franco, Corrado and I spent hours on those steps playing briscola.

A distant cousin purchased our house along with the house of Za Peppina – our neighbor and cousin – which abutted ours; the distant cousin had moved back to Aprigliano after her husband retired from the Police force in Genoa. The new owners broke through and made a large modern home out of the two old houses.