Il passo delle stagioni

meditation among the paths of the Alpine mountains. Writing as a light step in nature. Search for the sense of beauty in the grace of a common flower or in the poise of a tree among thousands in a forest. Walking on the alpine paths it is easy to follow the pace, that is, the rhythm of the seasons. Between contrasts and harmonious combinations, the colours, silences and noises, the very elements of the landscape - rocks and waters, trees and flowers, birds and land animals, buildings and signs of human presence - change as the days and months. Gianni Gasparini lets the little things that happen every day of the year speak for themselves in a privileged natural environment such as the Aosta Valley: the snow that falls, the ice that forms on the stream, the crocuses that bloom on a meadow, the return of summer and flowers each in its niche, the arrival of autumn with the wonderful palette of broad-leaved trees and larches. To tell the language of nature, writing styles intersect: autobiography, poetic prose, naturalistic observations, philosophical considerations. The basic idea is that the small alludes to the great, the humble to the sublime. The grace of a common flower or the poise of a tree among thousands in a forest speak to us of the beauty to which we aspire deep down, for each of us and for the world.