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TRUE LIFE STORIES
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Giovanni Tommasini
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TRUE LIFE STORIES
EMOTIONS IN WORDS
My story, a “writer by chance.” A deep reflection on the readers’ comments. “Its pages touched me”… My writing, your reading, routes covered together. A journey inside ourselves from our daily experiences always in search of a meaning, passing through the memories, to emotions. This is the story of a “writer by chance,” me, and my discovery of a method of expression. The text’s creation, which is present inside of us, that needs to be rendered in order to make our life experience a way to propose and follow.The emotive writing and reading. Giovanni Tommasini"An uncommon and curious setting that makes the tale, or the poem, intriguing; the whole book is a poetry treatise. I can’t put it down; it’s never slow or too descriptive.”"A ‘writer by chance’... yet not so fortuitous in the end: Giovanni Tommasini writes for all, using an experiential language full of his own past experience and rich in reflections, thoughts, translations of feelings. I recommend this book to those who want to ‘get in touch’ or meet again ‘with’ and ‘in’ a beautiful person.”
THE AMERICAN DREAM OF TOMATO BASEBALL CLUB
Those who play baseball are, in my opinion, in some ways special persons. Baseball isn't just any sport, it doesn't just form real athletes. Baseball forms particular men. Like Giovanni Tommasini. A baseball player and today a writer. He passed through that field with a particular shape called a diamond. The green grass, the red dirt; put on a helmet, hold the bat and you are about to enter the batter's box. You against everybody: on that little hill is the pitcher ready to challenge you; all around him, his teammates are ready to eliminate you if the pitcher fails to do so.Giovanni Tommasini lived it on his skin, he experienced what it means to slide on that red dirt to get to the base before the opponent's defenders could get you out.An email, a phone call, and I met Giovanni. After exchanging a word or two I immediately understood how much baseball is still part of his life. Then, when I read Tomato, his first story, I realized how special this Ligurian author is. All the beauty and magic of this sport can be found in his writings, getting inspiration from the birth of the team in the city of Sanremo up to the fabulous story of Alex Liddi. The first real professional Italian Major League player. From Sanremo.Tommasini’s are not just ordinary stories. With his quotes from great writers, composers and poets, he can make baseball a lesson of life. Baseball not only as a team sport, but like a real gym of life. In every position, from pitcher to catcher, from shortstop to the outfield, this sport has something to give.Tommasini writes about the pitcher in Nine Spearheads: “The trajectory requested by the catcher, a dock for the hitter; the bat meeting the pitched ball, the dreamed land on the new world.Heroes. We can be heroes, just for one day and forever”.From there the decision to publish on my website Baseballmania, because I believed right away what Giovanni was proposing me. No one in Italy ever wrote about the baseball the way he did. From the first stories, to those Giovanni wrote later on, something was born also from our exchange of ideas, like the fantastic tale about the life of Agostino Liddi. The origin of Alex Liddi.Then everything happened in a short time, because Tommasini’s tales fly fast, like the 90 miles fastball of a Major League pitcher. Up to this book which collects, like a single theme, all the tales of this great Ligurian writer. The first great baseball writer in Italy.Those who played baseball are special persons.When you will get to the end of this book, you will understand why.
IT'S CESARE, IT'S ALL GOOD
The true story of a help relationship, mutually and intensely lived, between a young educator and an autistic savant child. Cesare and Giovanni first met in the ambulatory of a family counseling centre, in Genova. The proposal to try for three months home care becomes an occasion to put in contact two personalities in fully development and change who, entering in harmony, will live 15 unforgettable years... Preface letter “To suffer together” by Dott. Roberto Soriani, psychiatrist in Genova, ASL 3, mental health service. Introductive articles: .”The autism in my point of view” “What we mean when we talk about Help Relationship”. Afterword articles “The fragile X syndrome” “Intellectual and relational disabled vs intellectual and relational-abled”. Dear Giovanni,What a pleasure to hear from you after so much time!Even more so because I know that you are well and threw yourself headlong into a new venture!I must say that I’m not that surprised, because over time I’ve gotten used to the fact that you are an extremely resourceful man. Well, I wasn’t expecting to meet you again as a writer even if, like you say yourself, you’re a “writer by chance.”I gladly accepted your invite to read about your project, your story with Cesare and…how beautiful! Congratulations, you were really great, as usual I could say...It was a pleasure to read Cesare’s story and get a better understanding of what happened in that time and, thanks to your writing, also understand why it happened… First, and foremost, I must say that Iwas impressed by the simplicity and the clarity of thought and, at the same time,the depth of what you described:with few, simple words you were able to paint this world that still looks strange and mysterious, the world of autism.It was natural for me to wonder what had worked so well in your relationship and what had allowed you to reach this point.My first answer was EMPATHY!This is an odd word…abused at times, often misunderstood.Through the story you wrote, its meaning becomes more understandable, starting from its etymology: “Suffering together.”Cesare allowed you to enter into his world because he felt that you had suffered as well and therefore you could understand what he was feeling.Then he “made you suffer,” putting you to the test, challenging you to tolerate his pain also. Only after that could he trust you and, consequently, rely on you.The second answer was your “NO FEAR.”Mind you, it’s not courage.It’s the fact that you didn’t allow the monsters in Cesare’s world to scare you. You faced them with him, showing him that they could be neutralized, if not defeated, forever. How could you do that?Some of it has to do with your boldness, due to your professional inexperience, but most of all you could do it because you were able to look inside yourself and discover that you had some monsters too and you had neutralized them…In the end, your intellectual and emotional honesty allowed you to reach the results that you obtained with Cesare.I’m glad I could work with you, I’m glad I could read this story again and write these things.Keep being yourself, keep having the same honesty and fighting the monsters that inhabit our world.Your dearest Roberto.Dr. Roberto SorianiPsychiatrist
