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Why We Should Tip Generously Everywhere Right Now

ByMassimo Usai20/07/2020

We should realise tipping an employee who hasn’t gotten paid in many months could save economy. I have been for almost twenty years inside the hospitality industry and a now few issues that are always a hot topic in that “world”: tipping. Last few

The Music of my Life

The Records of My Life: Stevie Wonder – Talking Book

ByMassimo Usai19/07/2020

Stevie Wonder’s “Talking Book” 1972 The first attention to Stevie Wonder comes with the album “Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants”. Was 1979 and attract me the way was promoted. In London was played inside the Royal Garden of Kew and I

ByMassimo Usai18/07/2020

Vilnius is the Capital of Lithuania. It’s a great place for a weekend away. The people are great. The place is great. Fist time I visited Vilnius, I was walking around a lot. I didn’t feel tiredness or time. Vilnius Old Town has a very beautiful architecture and

Stories

Spoiler Alert: Lies could improve our life.

ByMassimo Usai17/07/2020

Could you imagine if we only say the truth about everything? Will be possible to live in peace? One of the first things we are educated from as a child is to “always” tell the truth. Yet, as a child, one of the first instincts we have is not always telling the

ByMassimo Usai16/07/2020

Woody Allen is an American director, writer and actor. Every time I think of Venice he comes to mind. I don’t know exactly why, but it is and it will probably be forever. Fact is that the title of my post is one of his quotes about this Italian town. I’ve always

Words

We have much time to think and write.

ByMassimo Usai15/07/2020

You don’t need to be a great author. You just need to write it. London, July 2020 By Massimo Usai There’s a certain romance with the written word. I started writing postcards when I was very young.I could feel a kind of feeling just remember that time when I was

Words

How Long Does It Take To Have A New Habit

ByMassimo Usai14/07/2020

SOMEONE SAY 21 DAYS, SOMEONE 66 OR EITHER LONGER I don’t know if you have ever heard, but some theory suggests that it takes 21 days to form a new habit in our life. There are so many studies to support this theory that you can form a new habit in your life by doing

Words

How to feel eternally away from home. Even when you thought you found the house where all your escape attempts stopped.

ByMassimo Usai13/07/2020

A personal reflection starting from a nobel prize author and his words Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer. One of the important ones. The only Arabic-language writer to have won the Nobel Prize. It happened in 1988. He was a writer of which I have read little to date.

The Music of my Life

The Records of My Life: The Clash – Sandinista

ByMassimo Usai12/07/2020

For those of you old enough, reverse your mind’s back to the end of the ’70s and into 1980. The cold-war world was the main news every day on the media. The Punk was settling down, and some new sound was emerging: it was a strange time. Around us, we had the

Music

Massive Attack get a top score for us with three new audio-visual songs

ByMassimo Usai11/07/2020

WE KNOW HOW POLITICAL MASSIVE ATTACK COULD BE. ANYWAY , STILL MANAGE TO SURPRISE I was waiting any moment for a recond that would mark the first step of the new post-COVID-19 music.I was waiting for Radiohead as the first group, but among those, I had thought about there was

Sardinia is like the Rolling Stones: Hard to Change and Hard to Die.

The Records of my Life: Jay-Jay Johanson: Whiskey

“The universe has no meaning, it is people who give meaning to the universe. However, people are part of the universe, therefore the universe has meaning.”?

Why We Should Tip Generously Everywhere Right Now

The Records of My Life: Stevie Wonder – Talking Book

Vilnius: The Least Famous of the Baltic Sisters, But is an Hidden Gem that Needs to be Discovered

Spoiler Alert: Lies could improve our life.

“Venice is the most romantic place in the world but it’s even better when there is no one around.”

We have much time to think and write.

How Long Does It Take To Have A New Habit

How to feel eternally away from home. Even when you thought you found the house where all your escape attempts stopped.

The Records of My Life: The Clash – Sandinista

Massive Attack get a top score for us with three new audio-visual songs

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