Carlo Rey LacsamanaSep 3, 20224 min readSome Reflections on Dance (Alcune riflessioni sulla danza)I It has always been my dream to learn to dance. As a kid I have always been fascinated by movement. There is something in the dance that...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaApr 9, 20223 min readBeauty and Terror(Pierre Mania) I rarely watch TV and when I do there’s only one or two channels that appeal to me. I find most TV programs as chaotically...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaMay 18, 20212 min readIn Memory of Luis and His Animals and The Weak and The OtherAs I write this my cat, Zorba, is sitting on my lap and purring with delight as I shower his furry head with masterful kisses. I have so...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaFeb 15, 20213 min readAn Old Lady and Her DogIn this challenging world we live in marked by the seemingly incurable pandemic and its attendant ordeals—lockdowns, social restrictions,...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaNov 13, 20203 min readA Café in Piazza San FrancescoIn the café eavesdropping becomes permissible as a consequence of hanging out. Various shades of conversations, a salad of issues:...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaOct 31, 20204 min readTo a visitor coming to Lucca, Tuscany probably in autumnIf you are coming for the first time, this is your only chance to approach the city. If you are coming for the second or third or __...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaOct 20, 20202 min readCroissant or A Bite of HappinessTo my siblings The nature of happiness is a complete mystery. It comes always as unexpected, undisguised, and unpredictable. Yet when it...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaAug 23, 20204 min readWho am I without you? (One Day Postcards From London)1. Who am I without you?—I ask myself as I watch through the plane window the view of the houses, the hills, and the sea recede into the...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaAug 4, 20203 min readViareggio, August brings a new kind of lonelinessRiding a train is also a practice in loneliness. A loneliness similar to a brief rainshower in a hot August afternoon. I am on my way to...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaJul 27, 20202 min readNavigations From The Café IINo other place reinforces one’s propensity for aloofness than the café. Art studios and libraries are also sympathetic to aloofness but...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaJul 3, 20202 min readNavigations From The Cafe I(Edinburg Café by Dieter Krehbiel) For John Merrick Three things I look for when I travel: a museum, a local library, and a good café....
Carlo Rey LacsamanaJun 8, 20202 min readWe Have Blown It (a reflection on conversation with friends in the middle of upheavals)(The Wind Will Carry Us, 2020, Carlo Rey Lacsamana) The world is crazy, Carlo. The world is fucking burning, Chris. Zozan, a Kurd,...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaApr 26, 20202 min readBicycle Sketches After a month of being locked up in the house the sensation of going out, of escaping has become violently physical. Against the...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaApr 4, 20202 min readSodade(Cesaria Evora and her band) I set the afternoon on the music of the legendary Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora. Sodade which in English...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaMar 12, 20204 min readGrief in the time of virus (a meditation)(Fish from the series Endings, February 2020, Carlo Rey Lacsamana ) As I write these words the sky outside the window is overcast it...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaFeb 19, 20202 min readJust in time(a scene from the movie Lost in Translation, 2003, by Sofia Coppola) “Just in time you found me just in time Before you came my time was...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaJan 30, 20204 min readI'd rather belong than be motivated(A scene from the film Il Grido by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957) There is an expanding motivation industry in the social media world...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaJan 13, 20203 min readWe Are The Bushfires What I am about to confess may sound controversial or inappropriate, some readers might consider it even immoral. When I saw the...
Carlo Rey LacsamanaJan 2, 20202 min readAn Introduction To The Love Song(Anthony Quinn as Zorba in the 1964 film Zorba The Greek) For a long time now, I have been pondering about making a site of my own where...