The “FourBooks” is a wikievent, a literary rave, a mosaic of small celebrations of staying together, a reader’s festival that, thanks to the Web, manage to link a lot of people and happenings already ready to born and go on autonomously.
Maybe reading won’t make you live longer, but it can improve your quality of life: backed with this philosophy, on 17th september 2008 some cafés all around Italy opened to readers and friends for an anarchic festival of popular literature. Not only classics, but poetry, best sellers, thrillers, graphic novels and comics, love stories and still unknown book, were read by a crowd of common people who decided to share a moment and something they like to stay together. Because life is easier if you share it with someone, and we should try to build new models of sociability nearer to people’s needs.
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 In every Italian Library, “Vivere con Lentezza – Slowly Living”, by Bruno Contigiani. This is a half funny and half serious invite to take your time and leave the every-day frenzy while everyone seems to adapt to. You can find small actions for great changes, something that let us know an entire world visible only in slow-motion. A little book for silent heroes.
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-Wake up five minutes earlier than usual so you have time to shave, do your make up or have breakfast without hurrying -While queuing at the supermarket or in traffic relax, don’t get angry and try to use your time for planning your day or talking to your neighbor in line
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Article written by Bruno Contigiani ( Slow-living president) and published by Panoarama Travel, an Italian magazine of tourisme. Christmas is approaching and many people are dreaming about leaving to profit for the first
or another time of the hectic life in the Big Apple.
Recalling a famous song by the famous Italian artist Mina “I am what you want me to be”,
I would like to suggest an alternative and new way to image, dream first and leive then the splendid New York. As N.Y. is only partially an hectic city.
If you slow down, if you consecrate enough time to live it, if you calmly listen to it and
let is come out, you will immediately perceive how welcoming, gentle, curious, happy and
collaborative the city is.
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New York Times Published: January 31, 2008 (.....We go slow but at the end..... we’ll be there) The Slow Life Picks Up Speed By PENELOPE GREEN “I HAVE a little spiel I like to give about thread,” Natalie Chanin said the other day. “The ladies laugh at me and call it my Oprah moment, but here’s how it goes: It’s called loving your thread, and it’s all about talking to the thread, coaxing it to take the path of least resistance. At the crux of it, that’s what Slow Design is all about.” A movement that started in the kitchen takes over the rest of the house. SLOWING TIME A clock drops beads to measure time in five-minute increments. Ms. Chanin runs a company, Alabama Chanin, that sells exquisite hand-stitched garments made from old T-shirts and home goods like flea market chairs with seats woven out of Goodwill neckties.
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 Article published on 31 april 2008
Va Bene by Katherine Stirling “We started as a group of friends with the same problem: difficulty in our personal life to manage our time, being always in a hurry, and being always suspended between past and future.” This philosophy—part Deepak Chopra, part Hannah Arendt—was recently proffered by Bruno Contigiani to explain the genesis of L’Arte del Vivere con Lentezza (The Art of Living Slowly), an organization that he founded two years ago, with his wife, Ella.
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 Parents of toddlers have known for years that tired kids have trouble controlling their emotions. But recent findings from neuroscientists at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, extend far beyond temperamental tykes. After the researchers kept adult volunteers awake for abaout 35 hours, they found with MRI scans that sleep deprivation impairs the “rational” prefrontal cortex’s control over the amygdale, the brain’s emotion center. The result is the moodiness that often accompanies exhaustion, described by the team as an amplified response from the brain’s emotion hub. The study also suggested that sleep deprivation interferes with the ability of the frontal cortex to make logical decision.
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by Sarah Garland, Newsweek dec.22,2008
Many kids play hooky all day, every day, more than 40 percent of children
old enough to attend secondary school are not in the classroom, many because
of violent conflict in their home countries. Another 800 million adults are
illiterate. Efforts to reach these people have stumbled because of a lack of
teachers, poor governance and declining foreign aid. Educators are coming to
believe that the only hope of closing the literacy gap in developing countries
lies in extending the reach of online education.
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