Gianni Rodari is one of the greatest storytellers. His work The Grammar of Fantasy is one of the most important theoretical texts on fairy tales.
With the children from "Astramaxa" we chose to read Telephone Tales and dramatize one of the stories which we found very funny but also with a significant meaning as children invent their own language that adults must have an open mind to understand.You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
I would have liked to cry: the make-up stopped me, it looked just right, with the cracks, with the places where it was beginning to flake off, tears would have ruined all that. I could cry later, if I still felt like it.
Our destiny is what we want it to be, not what has been carved in stone. It's our life, not someone else's dream.
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
