I was there!
(July 2007)

Campo di luglio 2007

Ario’s letter to the Keepers

I see you: caressing the Earth.

You did so, waking up at dawn to run towards her first rays
You did it in the evening when, one close to the other or everyone on his own, you got asleep under her immense vastness of stars.
And you do it at every second, walking her lightly with your naked foots, without leaving any trace, while sun, silence and wind enter your soul.
You get to know her face, every single aspect of it: cold, hunger, weariness. But what’s cold, hunger and weariness when all that remains is wonder and astonishment?

I see you: listening to the Heart.

When she has called and her voice is so mute but loud that nothing else can exist, that it’s not possible to avoid answering... And therefore, you have paused on the high slopes of the mountains almost touching the sky and you have kept quiet into her embrace.
And if your “small” heart seemed too exiguous to be able to keep that Light, all you needed to do has been: close your eyes and Listen.

Yes, keep listening...

Remain astonished.

And, still, you have heard that voice again up on the top of the mountains, folding your legs as during the old Hanblecheyapi rytuals of the Native boys: you have lifted the hands to your lips for a gratitude kiss, you raised them to your forehead to offer all your Being and eventually, you slowly opened them until closing them on your heart in order to join the Chant of the beautiful Mother Goddess.

And she heard you.

Frightened, downtrodden, forgotten and sullied by men, with wonder she noticed you, all of you, with wonder and joy and renewed hope she heard your Love; she found back some of her sons who still love her...
She heard you and she smiled and gently she lied over your young hearts; delicate and commoved she brushed you, little Big creatures, you who chant and call her with cry of joy and absorbed silence...

...she entered inside you and called all of you...

the Keepers of the Earth

The light which is now shining into your eyes is her light and she will never leave you.

This is the Sacred Trail of Sioux people and of all the Natives. The Trail leading straight to your heart thanks to the respect and the deep love for Mother Earth. Nothing else cares if one is on that Trail; it’s the n.1 Trail. As long as you’ll be walking her, you’ll be sure to be honouring and not wasting that Precious & Unic Gift called Life.

My heart, dear kids, is now filled with deep joy as I see that all that is now also part of you... Keep it and stay like that for ever! You are the Keepers of the Earth and you will not disappoint her.

Thanks to you all for the Light you gave me.


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