The tall house

In a little country village near Padua, there is a curious house built on a river bank and everyone knows it as the “tall house”.

I have never seen it but it was described to me so well by those who lived there that I imagined it: a vertical construction that with its roof wanted to communicate with the sky, it was so high and pointed.

Who knows if whoever built it thought about the impact that this roof would have on the memory of its inhabitants and above all the most surprising fact, whoever had stopped to observe it, should have looked up… giving the gods the possibility to meet the curious eyes of those dreamers.

The walls in this house are full of memory and they’ll never forget the large family lived there many years ago and that keeps the memory… Giorgio’s and Gianni’s who they were always up to something… Anna’s and Gianna’s who with the their noble hearts, nourished those spaces of love… Cristina who came after all the others and who perhaps didn’t live under that magical roof, was precisely the gift of those gods, who for years had received unexpected and free glances and smiles.

So one day the gods decided to reciprocate and they had returned a big one, the little Cristina’s smile.

Well, I assure you that I wanted to go and see this magical house in person and now that I have revealed its secret to you, I believe that looking at the tip of the roof, I’ll search in the clouds for my dream and I’m almost sure… I will find it!