Forgiveness is neither a poetic abstraction nor a mere religious rule or moralistic dictum. Forgiveness configures the psychological and spiritual excellence of a state of lucidity and serenity that allows the individual to let go of the idea and feeling of personal attack and, simultaneously, to grant themselves the blessing of detoxification [...]

I was still immersed in a fragment of sleep, in the early hours of this Monday morning, enraptured by a vivid mental picture that seemed to me to have been dyed in oil, with impressionistic strokes, in which a carousel appeared with little children dressed in costumes that reminded me of the “belle époque”, [...]