I wrote this for the The Oneness Movement, a new wellness platform my friend Joanna Harris just brought into the world. Have you ever heard about the jade egg? It is a little object carved from the green stone 'jade' in the shape and rough same size of an ‘egg’. It is in reality something… Continue reading Eggs are not just for Easter
Author: Grazia
Expectations
In the last couple of weeks I have been talking with a guy. We don't really know each other and we are exchanging some messages. It feels like a super relaxed, friendly and honest conversation. We agreed to go out for a drink and this is happening in two weeks. In the spirit of the… Continue reading Expectations
Why doubling on you?
Yesterday I was at dinner with a dear friend. He works in the industry and we were talking about algorithms ...not the music ones though but the algorithms of dating apps. So we started to talk about relationships. We were wondering about the phenomenon known as 'same guy, different guy' (also been reported in its… Continue reading Why doubling on you?
3 secrets to mascarpone heaven
Mascarpone cream is one sublime thing of life. It's also my absolute forte. And it is very simple. Here is how you do it. Ingredients: 4.5 tablespoon of sugar, the evil refined white one I'm afraid 2 egg yolks 250g of mascarpone, I always try to buy the Italian brand if available70g double cream brandy… Continue reading 3 secrets to mascarpone heaven
Rhythm and chaos
Just as yesterday I was writing about chaos, today I happened to watch this incredibly inspiring talk from Gabrielle Roth, the creator of 5 rhythms. It's 90min long but 90min well spent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zN_V-SdYwo Gabrielle talks about rhythm as our mother tongue, explains how she came to realise that the body can't lie and defines chaos… Continue reading Rhythm and chaos
Break to Create
When you look up in the dictionary to create means 'to originate, to bring something into existence'. It comes from the Latin verb creare. I'm sure everyone has heard the saying that love is a verb and not just a noun by now. Creating is a bit the same. We tend to look and focus… Continue reading Break to Create
Mango and passion fruit chocolate cake (vegan)
Today I baked this cake for a friend. It was an experiment and it worked out pretty well. It takes 5mins to prepare and 35 to bake. When I finished I realised it's also vegan. Ingredients: ½ cup white sugar ¼ cup brown sugar 1¼ cups all-purpose white flour ¼ cup unsweetened baking cocoa 2… Continue reading Mango and passion fruit chocolate cake (vegan)
On the ice
In the past weeks I’ve been back on my skates after 20 years! What a discovery! I have always loved watching figure skating athletes at their mastery. When I was a kid I was mesmerised by it. I used to tape cassettes with the routines from the championships and the Olympics and then watch them… Continue reading On the ice
If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere
Last week I was invited to participate at FastForwad, a boutique music conference which takes place every year in Amsterdam, London and Sydney. My friend and ex-EMI colleague Chris Carey who is the man behind the conference asked if I'd join the Latin Music panel - to answer the pressing questions related to what really… Continue reading If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere
Curve sound
The Bauhaus Movement has been posting a series of images from Kandinsky’s observation of the dancer Gret Palucca. He put her movements into lines, forms and shapes as part of his essay ‘Dance Curves’. I'm not sure if this belongs to the same series but it's from the same years, the early 20s, and it's… Continue reading Curve sound