Having Faith

......And sometimes it becomes just so difficult to believe that having "faith" alone will get us through the difficult times. Faith is such an intangible concept, so ethereal, and so confounding when you dismiss any form of religious fundamentalism.

To have faith, to have trust in the world, to believe in the good in others... How difficult to cultivate faith in the face of all the injustice, all the wars, the momentary sense of powerlessness and despair.

.....AND THEN MUSIC ENTERS MY WORLD...

…she gives me a warm embrace, she carries me, she gives me strength, she guides me and restores my faith. SHE!, LA MUSICA; MUZYKA.

.. .. And when I doubt why I am working for a smaller salary then back in New York City, then I am reminded that I am where I need to be, that I am making my contribution of faith in the humankind. And I thank Jovanotti for inspiring my passionate love for the Italian language, for seducing me with his music back in the cold lights of New York City walking with my walkman through the endless underground corridors of the dark metro stations. And now with my mp3 player, years later, he reminds me to have faith. And Rome is simply beautiful when the wind blows in my face as Lorenzo sings to me when I drive my little motorino... Yes, as much as I love tomatoes it was more then the hunger for taste that brought me to Rome. It was also hunger for music with meanigful lyrics... Thank you Lorenzo for seducing me with your serenatas rap... Thanks to myself for having faith to follow your music.

Here she is, for all of you my friends, listen....