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April 2026
April is springtime. Spring means a little travelling, and some renewal.
We had a long weekend in Copenhagen having herring Smørrebrød, exploring the mildest of Scandinavian countries, and ending up in a front row seat to an 84-year-old Paul Simon, a bit of a legend of mine.
April is springtime. And spring brings celebration: celebration for the end of the war, and the liberation of Italy from the Nazi invaders, every year. It’s friends, and wine, and music, and kids. The first tingling sun on the tip of the nose.
I’ve been doing some training, not enough walking, a fair amount of studying. Work has been solid.
Arabic has been quietly progressing, and I’m starting to focus a bit more on dialects than standard, just for a change. Still, too soon to say how it is going.
I’m working on some process changes at work, and on delivering training sessions on various topics. I enjoy that kind of work viscerally.
On my mind
Four Thousand Weeks
If you want to go on a pilgrimage to the place where our Constitution was born, go to the mountains where the partisans fell, to the prisons where they were imprisoned, to the fields where they were hanged. Wherever an Italian died to redeem freedom and dignity, go there, young people, in your thoughts. For there our Constitution was born.