A lonely summer

It was the last day of the summer holidays of too many years ago,  and I wasn't expecting much to happen. Suddenly I heard the phone ringing. For the first time in my school records I had to repair one subject: Geography. It might seem incredible but it's true. Of all the subjects, chemistry, maths, latin, phisic I showed my limits just in Geography so I had to spent my summer trying to improve my scarce knowledge in that particular subject. In a few day, in the first days of September,  I would be attending my fall examination in order to be admitted at the final course to graduate ad eventually go to to University. I picked up the telephone: what a nice surprise! It was Laura at the phone! Laura was a school mate who had also to make up for Geography. She was very nice of her to invite me for joining and prepairing together that boring subject for the repairing examination of September. So my summer had an happy end that unfortunate year.

In favor or against the Internet

Dear friend, you asked me to say if I'm in favor or against  the Internet. 

Of course there are so many reasons to be in favor. But there are also many reasons to be against. 

So, in this letter I'll first  tell you why I'm against the Internet and afterwards I'll write down the reasons I see to be in favor of the Internet, which are may be even more.

Reasons against the Internet:  Last week my youngest daughter made a payment on her poste pay credit card; she needed  to make some shoppings on line. When she tried to use her credit card she discovered with so much sorrow that someone had stolen her money. Furthermore I'm an old fashoned man and,  depending on me, men were still living in the caves, hunting for eating and warming themselves at the fire in the summer nightime, listening the old stories from some story teller. Staying connected all day,  men have lost the pleasure to look each others into their eyes and millions of people have lost their job because of the Internet. 

And what about the fact that on the Internet each stupid has the opportunity to show how much silly he is?

As matter of fact I distrust any thing which is new and I always regret the old times gone.

Reasons in favor of the Internet: As I told you before the reasons to be in favor of the Internet are much more than the others to be against.

First of all I want to remind my first years as a lawyer. I used to spend a lot of time digiting at my old  typewriting machine. And if I made a mistake I had to start again from the beginning. And if the judicial act was at its deadline in the next day, I was compelled to work until morning in order to be able to protocol the act in the right time.

Now, thanks to Internet, when you start a new job, pasting and removing you can make the point quite easily.

Eventually, now, you can even deposit your act stayng at home.

Secondly i want to point out the facilities to be informed at any time thanks to the news travelling in real time on the Web.

Furtherly more if you have a friend or a relative far way you can talk with him/her quite easily even seeing her/him on skype or through any other webcam, thanks to your PC.

Last but not least, if yoiu digit anything on your keyboard the Internet is able to give you an immediate answer.

Please let me know what you think about this fascinating debate.

Best regards from Albix

The alabaster jar

From Saint Matthew's Gospel

Chapter 26

VV 6-13

One day Jesus was in Bethany,  with Simon

The leper.  While they had been sitting

at table,  a woman came with the intention 

To wash  Jesus's hair, with one of those perfumes 

known for their big value!

The  disciples didn't like it however:

-         “If she didn't have so quickly 

broken the jar of alabaster with  the ointments

it kept inside, we would have sold it, for three hundred

and more guineas, and given to  unhappy poor men!”

The complaint   reached the ear of Jesus who said:

“Why are you upsetting this woman?

What she has done for me is indeed a nice thing!

As for the poorest, with your zeal

You will always be able, with good actions,

to help them, but you will not always have me. 

When she poured this ointment on my body,

she did it to prepare me for burial. 

 In truth I tell you, whatever space will find my Gospel,

what she has done will be told as well,

in remembrance of her.