
HONEST
Honest is the new mountain breath that I owe to Monica.
“Many people believe that climbing takes strength, but it is quite the opposite. Climbing, like living, is not about holding, it is about letting go. Everything. The fear, the uncertainty, the problems, the solutions, the past, the future, the holds. Everything. Letting go in a continuous movement that brings you closer to heaven.”
Honest, besides being the title of the book, is also the name of one of the characters of the story written by Francesco Vidotto for Edizioni Bompiani.
The story unfolds through a series of letters addressed to the Cadore peaks.
As you know, I have been a serial writer of letters, I have sent them everywhere in the world, but, to tell the truth, I have at most entrusted thoughts to the sea, and I have never written to any mountain.
Have you? Who have you written letters to?
The author grew up with his grandparents in Tai di Cadore, hearing his grandfather tell his grandmother ‘my mountains are you.’
This is also why he considers it of great importance to preserve the oral tradition just as he declares that if he were the Minister of Education he would call for a reform to have kindergartens in old people’s homes, which corrsponds to giving great value to what elders have to communicate and transmit.
Francesco Vidotto was a discovery, actually a great speaker as well as a writer, I listened very willingly to one of his presentations and I quote some of his words:
Wrinkles are the calligraphy of time
It is simplicity that gives the stature of things
Nature is like a tuning fork
if you let the note resonate in you you can receive peace in return
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