Americans have the phrase “I love you” to indicate their sentiments for their puppies, children, relatives and lovers. The English language has one of the biggest vocabularies in the world and, yet, there is just one phrase used to indicate a variety of sentiments – from the sweet devotion a mother has for her baby to the passionate, sexual feelings lovers have for one another. The Italians are a little more explicit than English-language speakers. There’s “Ti voglio bene” or “I want you well” for puppies, children and family and “Ti amo” for when you’re deeply in love. The difference between these two short phrases and the meaning behind each will surprise you.
Ti voglio bene, which literally means “I want you well,” is reserved for your parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, etc. This is used to say that this person is an important part of your life and you care so much for him or her that you want him or her to be well always. It’s a lovely sentiment and one way you can use to close a letter to those relatives who understand only Italian.
When I was a kid, we spent one Christmas in Italy, and my father bought me a sky blue stuffed teddy bear that said, “Ti voglio tanto bene” whenever I hugged his belly. It was my first lesson in the Italian language. I noted the distinct difference between ti voglio bene and ti amo. Ti voglio bene was how I felt about my teddy bear and my papa? and ti amo was something to which I could aspire once I found Mr. Right.
Now, years later, for the first time I have chosen to say the words, “ti amo,” to my boyfriend Antonio. It too means that you want the person well – very well, in fact. But it’s even more than that. You wrap up all your hopes and dreams in those words – ti amo.
With those two words, you are saying that you deeply love and are sexually attracted to this person. You are adding that you see this person in your future, that he or she has left an imprint on your heart. You can’t possibly imagine your life without him or her. Ti amo means you are willing to share your whole self with another.
Those two simple, little words are really hard to say and sometimes they get caught in your throat. Short words long on meaning can do that to a person. It takes courage to say them out loud to yourself, let alone another person who might reject you. That’s why Italians reserve them only for special people and say it with meaning.
Some Italians won’t – or can’t – even say it. Some of them believe that evidence of love is more important than the words themselves. In other words, if an Italian is opening doors for you, listening to you open up about your past in the wee hours of the morning and drying your tears, he or she might love you – even if he or she has never said a word about it. You’ll know if they want to say ti amo if you pay close attention to how they look at you. It’s all in the eyes. Your eyes speak for you before you can ever get the words out.
To all those readers out there (who can’t see my face), vi voglio bene. (I want you all well.) I hope you all arrive at ti amo in your own sweet time with your own sweet lover. In bocc’ al lupo!
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I love this outfit that Chanel Iman has put together here! I like to dub this “boho rock” (much to the disdain of my bf for the regular usage of that description!). This has inspired some looks for the coming summer as I try and steer away from my mono-tonal black jungle that my wardrobe seems to consist of!
❤ the jacket ❤ the headband ❤ the silhouette
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Poison Ivy “Rorschach” and Lux Interior, R.I.P. (her husband and co-founding member of The Cramps)gave us a genre of music gleefully known and loved known as– Psychobilly. Starting out as the ultimate garage band back in ’76, with their raw performance intensity and simple, throbbing tunes– they influenced an entire generation of rock/punk/goth bands who followed behind in their giant footsteps, and are still thrilling kids who “discover” their musical legacy to this day. Lux is the man, and Poison Ivy is no doubt the woman. Just get a load of these epic pics, and try not to bite through your lip…
http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/poison-ivy-of-the-cramps-psychobilly-guitar-goddess/ (pictures: 1992– Poison Ivy of the Cramps, Tamaris Rock Festival via & 1995– Pois0n Ivy of The Cramps at the University of Utah Olpin Union Ballroom. via)
touché JP! At http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/
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and his drop dead gorgeous girlfriend.
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Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl= in their band “the GOASTT” (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger) performing Rainbows In Gasoline
What did ya think?
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Okay, so Kemp is unbelievably stunning which lands her a modeling career which catches the eye of the oh-so-desirable and talented Sean Lennon who un-covers that she has actual music “talent” and together they form a band called the GOASTT creating music that the case of the TPS is making it hard for me to admit that I actually quite like!
After a couple of listens, its kinda catchy. Albeit; I think they are totally trying to cash in on the whole Serge Gainsbourg (musical prodigy) and Jane Birkin (sex on legs) coupling that have paved out a formula for guaranteed social acceptance amongst the Avante Guard and Experimental scene-stars. I means; its a similar sound, similar aesthetics, similar writing of “let’s just do something really random, senseless and so left field” and dub it “nerdy” because we are “artists”. They are following the formula to perfection!
okay… So clearly that rant was a vent of the TPS and just quietly I would like to be that hot, that talented, musically gifted and land myself Sean Lennon. Some people do have it all!
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We are a rock revolving
Around a golden sun
We are a billion children
Rolled into one
So when I hear about
The hole in the sky
Saltwater wells in my eyes
We climb the highest mountain
We’ll make the desert bloom
We’re so ingenious
We can walk on the moon
But when I hear of how
The forests have died
Saltwater wells in my eyes
I have lived for love
But now that’s not enough
For the world I love is dying
(and now I’m crying)
And time is not a friend
(no friend of mine)
As friends we’re out of time
And it’s slowly passing by..yyy…yyy…yyy
Right before our eyes
We light the deepest ocean
Send photographs of mars
We’re so enchanted by
How clever we are
Why should one baby
Feel so hungry she cries
Saltwater wells in my eyes
I have lived for love
But now that’s not enough
For the world I love is dying
(and now I’m crying)
And time is not a friend
(no friend of mine)
As friends we’re out of time
And it’s slowly passing by..yyy…yyy…yyy
Right before our eyes
We are a rock revolving
Around a golden sun
We are a billion children
Rolled into one
What will I think of me
The day that I die
Saltwater wells in my eyes
Saltwater wells in my eyes
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At around 10:50 pm on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in The Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:07 pm. Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman.
Ono issued a statement the next day, saying “There is no funeral for John,” ending it with the words, “John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him.”His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York’s Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields memorial was later created. Chapman pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life; as of 2010, he remains in prison, having been repeatedly denied parole.
R.I.P John Lennon
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