He was sitting on a rock on the seaside, with his gaze lost in the distance without focusing on any precise point, almost as if he were part of the movement of the waves, which have no direction but live within the sea.
Then a little girl, curious and fearless as all sea girls are, asked him:
– Do you know what the winter solstice is? What does it mean that daylight lasts longer?”
The man lost in the sea turned and said to her in a serious voice of amazement:
– Can you look at the moon in the evening?
– Of course! the little girl replied.
– And the sun during the day? The man immediately replied.
– No! You can’t look straight at the sun, otherwise my eyes will hurt.
Then the man said to the little girl, with a new voice of someone who wants to accompany her back home:
– You can’t look at the sun because it makes you see, you can’t reach it because it makes you live, you can’t cover it because it heats you, you can’t turn it off because it feels good. And there is a day in winter, when the sun whispers to the moon: from today I lenghten the time of light, so at night the sky and the stars will make everyone see your beauty. And men, raising their heads held straight with the strength of light, will be able to recognize you as the womb of life.
The little girl touched the water, caressed the man with a drop, gave him a kiss on the cheek and said happily:
– You are the most beautiful Dad in the world, like the sun!
…This among countless other precious moments, also happens on the cliffs below Le Case del Principe in Pantelleria.
