The Emporium of Books for Dogs will close for the next two weeks

Considering tht high amount of infected people and the complicated, for using an euphemism, sanitary situation in Umbria,  - - on January the 6th this one the situation 

Acquasparta 151 (+5), Allerona 24 (+5), Alviano 28 (+4), Amelia 324 (+13), Arrone 110 (+8), Assisi 1.124 (+65), Attigliano 19 (-4), Avigliano Umbro 122 (+8), Baschi 55 (+8), Bastia Umbra 945 (+51), Bettona 190 (+12), Bevagna 156 (+14), Calvi dell’Umbria 41 (-1), Campello sul Clitunno 92 (-4), Cannara 130 (+9), Cascia 81 (+19), Castel Giorgio 13, Castel Ritaldi 92 (+3), Castel Viscardo 43 (+1), Castiglione del Lago 493 (+74), Cerreto di Spoleto 44 (+2), Citerna 69 (+7), Città della Pieve 232 (+1), Città di Castello 1.088 (+86), Collazzone 158 (+14), Corciano 957 (+18), Costacciaro 37 (-3), Deruta 460, Fabro 155 (-12), Ferentillo 88 (+1), Ficulle 54 (+1), Foligno 1.705 (+82), Fossato di Vico 52 (-5), Fratta Todina 58 (+9), Giano dell’Umbria 51, Giove 23 (-2), Gualdo Cattaneo 160 (+13), Gualdo Tadino 334 (+21), Guardea 49 (+8), Gubbio 976 (+78), Lisciano Niccone 19 (+3), Lugnano in Teverina 52 (+6), Magione 704 (+8), Marsciano 819 (+16), Massa Martana 135 (+2), Monte Castello di Vibio 41 (+3), Montecastrilli 271 (+6), Montecchio 26 (+2), Montefalco 147 (+10), Montefranco 38 (-2), Montegabbione 17 (-2), Monteleone di Spoleto 10 (+2), Monteleone d'Orvieto 57 (+2), Monte Santa Maria Tiberina 40 (+2), Montone 39 (+7), Narni 711 (+74), Nocera Umbra 131 (+4), Norcia 125 (+11), Orvieto 384 (+7), Otricoli 63 (-1), Paciano 15, Panicale 229 (+15), Parrano 11, Passignano sul Trasimeno 209 (+9), Penna in Teverina 25 (-1), Perugia 6.206 (+55), Piegaro 158 (+4), Pietralunga 64 (+7), Poggiodomo 2 (+2), Polino 2 (-1), Porano 41 (+4), Preci 14 (+2), San Gemini 232 (-1), San Giustino 266 (+29), Sant’Anatolia di Narco 11 (+1), San Venanzo 69 (+3), Scheggia e Pascelupo 27 (-1), Scheggino 15 (+3), Sellano 24 (+3), Sigillo 74 (+2), Spello 260 (+24), Spoleto 1.110 (-25), Stroncone 141 (+22), Terni 4.736 (+166), Todi 522 (+38), Torgiano 310 (-2), Trevi 267 (+8), Tuoro sul Trasimeno 91 (+7), Umbertide 356 (+42), Valfabbrica 85 (+4), Vallo di Nera 6 (+2), Valtopina 24 (+2) - - 

and also in the city of Umbertide, the ladies of the Committee of the charity Books for Dogs have decided of closing the emporium

for, at least, two weeks. The scenario portrayed these weeks by the virus, the one described in the books I read on past pandemics like the Spagnola one. Activities remained opened? Great: the virus would have closed them because of the prudency of people as it happened for these ladies, or because a lot of people falling sick couldn't continue to keep opened their structure.

I am afraid that this winter will be long...

Anna Maria Polidori 

Resetting Our Future Long Haul COVID: A Survivor’s Guide Transform Your Pain and Find Your Way Forward by Joseph J. Trunzo, Julie Luongo

 Resetting Our Future

Long Haul COVID: A Survivor’s Guide Transform Your Pain and Find Your Way Forward by Joseph J. Trunzo, Julie Luongo is maybe one of the first self-help books directly involving COVID-19. The publishing house of this book is Changemakers Books: once started the pandemic they decided of giving voice to the problematic appeared because of the Covid-19. Considering that we will still have to cope with COVID and what it means a pandemic for a while, these books can be useful for trying to find some relief.The website of the publishing house is www.resiliencebooks.com.

Mahatma Gandhi said once that the future its up to us and what we do today. For sure we have much more responsibilities in terms of life and death than what we had these past years. A vaccine can protect people and entire communities, reducing the mortality, hospitalization and possibility of infecting other people. The pandemic brought on the table of the existence thematic of great immensity. We discovered that our eco-system re-started to breath, oh yes, also pretty largely, when we were all closed home. Animals re-occupied their places in the past were dominated by us: at the same time the climate changes assumed a different importance, because this one can be just the beginning of a series of pandemics brought by the mutation of meteorological conditions and what it is going on in the North and South Pole.

Sure, as Americans love to saying: We're All in This Together. But... what doest it mean? That there is not a person in this world who hasn't been altered by COVID. A pandemic involves every sphere of the human condition: social, economical, psychological, physical, familial. There is not an untouched sphere in this extraordinary condition that won't touch men.

No one would want to suffer: this is true; but not seeing what it is going on could be worse. The method proposed by the authors for our case (we are all sick from COVID, also if we haven't been yet infected and maybe we won't be, because we don't live anymore with tranquillity but with stress levels pretty high) is called ACT and was firstly studied for other illnesses like the Lyme Syndrome caused by a bite of a tick. While dosctors are still debating if this illness exists or not, patients cope with a lot of pains at various levels: physical, psychological.

This method, so, has been adopted also for refreshing the body and spirit of people affected by COVID-19.

"ACT is grounded in an extremely well-researched model called Relational Frame Theory, which focuses on how our minds form relations and use symbols and language to make

connections in our mental processes." This method will help you to live in the present, bettering the quality of your thoughts for staying more tranquil and relaxed.

It is a good reading. I warmly suggest it to you.