January 2025, Year XVII, no. 1
Nicola Brighi
The Untamable Brothers
Telos: You and your brother Lorenzo have had two different careers. You, the commercial director of the family doors and windows industry, Lorenzo, a jazz musician. Then the pandemic hit... What happened?
Nicola Brighi: What happened was our life changed, like that of many other people. Luckily, ours changed for the better, but not without sacrifice. My brother Lorenzo lived in Bologna and he said that Covid “left him up the creek.”
He didn’t back down and even picked apples in Trentino and worked as a “woofer” (a volunteer for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms) on an animal farm. While I continued to work for the family door and window business ...more
Editorial
As soon as the news about the new coronavirus started rolling in, it seemed dangerous and disturbing. However, when we began worrying about it, before it changed life as we had always known it, never would we have imagined that in just a few weeks it would shake the whole world, each of our lives, turning them upside down.
Some people, like Nicola Brighi and his brother Lorenzo, decided they could not emerge from a similar apocalypse and just go back to their former lives, putting what they had experienced in those years – yes, years – behind them. They couldn’t because they didn’t want to let go of the vibrations of the new self they had developed during this long stretch of solitude ...more
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