Namaste
Here I am again after quite a long time away ( lol 😂 did I really say that?) but thought I would come here to remind everyone; next to yours truly, mccoy has been here the longest and has helped our site with his enthusiasm and wisdom snips many times through the years. I’ve always wondered one thing that I do not recall asking though mccoy; Why and where did you come up with that name, for an avatar? From a great jazz pianist? It actually makes me laugh 😂. Because as a kid my grandfather would turn on the television 📺 and there it would be; the Real Mccoy’s ! So it had a certain American ambiance about the old west and the United Clones. Just wanted you to know I really like your real name, it’s different than names in the U.S. where everything at times seems cloned.But you being from Italy 🇮🇹 I often think of it as a warm lovely climate with a lot of vineyards, since many of the foods we eat here come from there, like olive oil; which I love -even though it is expensive- and we hear so many good things about Italy here. I think i enjoyed mediterranean foods more than any in the world because they are so conducive to a vegetarian diet. I just wonder if you would share a little more about the origin of your name and that beautiful country you are from where great saints like St. Francis came from and lived.
Mccoy (Tyner), I remember being a huge fan of his, playing transcriptions of his music (trying to play actually, given his level of virtuosism), listening again and again to his best recordings.
Italy.... A very nice country, full of history, architecture, art, and lovely natural scenarios, but repleted with bureaucracy, unemployment, criminal organizations, government inefficiency, and corruption (at least until a while back). Many bad politicians recently, until now.
Of all the art that is here, I only saw a little, and I don't mind, Italy to me is the place where I have a karma to work out and a dharma to follow.
I appreciate though the Extra Virgin Olive Oil sold at inexpensive prices, the variety of vineyards with hi-polyphenols superlative tasting wines (I only drink them occasionally and in moderation), the fruit and the vegetables which are alas a little expensive.
What I hate of Italy is soccer, Ferrari cars, the fashion industry, the toys, the shallow and vacuos things the country is known for. And soccer is no longer a sport, is but a business, a devious one because it tends to deceive the supporters. Who nevertheless love to be deceived. Weird...
Probably what is saving the country is the good karma provided by all the saints who have been living here throughout history. St. Padre Pio is the most recent and popular.
