The insensitive Covid-19 took life away from Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda.

He died only a few hours ago in Oviedo, Spain, after fighting for six weeks against the virus, that he caught probably during a trip to a literary festival in Portugal.

I called the virus "insensitive", because I think it's wrong to call a virus "cruel". Illnesses have no feelings, obviously.

Luis Sepúlveda had deep feelings and every person, who has read at least one of his books, has surely perceived them through his prose.

I'd like to remember Luis Sepúlveda with this picture I quickly composed, as my humble tribute, inspired to one of his novels,

"The Story of A Seagull and The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly".

It might be considered a book for children, but, as in other similar cases, it can be inspirational for adults.

It's a tale about love, friendship, commitment and honour.

It is also about learning to believe in yourself.

A Cat, a Seagull, an impossible task…Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay her final egg and lands on a balcony, where she meets Zorba, a big black cat from the port of Hamburg. The cat promises the seagull to look after the egg, not to eat the chick once it’s hatched and – most difficult of all – to teach the baby gull to fly.

Positive thinking will let us do everything better than negative thinking will.

Of course trying hard to be positive doesn't mean to underestimate certain risks and the objective gravity of the situation we are all going through.

It simply means not allowing them to prevent us from perceiving what can make us feel better.

Often little things can have an uplifting impact on our mood.

Observing the beauty of nature, although we cannot do many outdoor activities, is always source of serenity.

We have more time to think over and to learn to be well with ourselves.

Maybe we are not as free as a bird now, but our imagination is still unchained.

I will start to find relatively good sides in this necessary self-isolation.

Of course I have already mentioned the silence, which enhanced the natural sound, so I won't repeat it.

But there are also more practical and less poetic good sides…

For instance burglars, thieves and purse-snatcher are unemployed.

Streets are nearly empty and houses are constantly occupied.

The nightmare of robbers is here.

My way to wish a Happy Easter to all the kind visitors of this gallery is inviting you to play a virtual Easter egg and rabbit hunt in my garden.

I have hidden here for you 11 rabbits and 11 eggs.

If you cannot find all of them...

Here is the solution

I deeply hope that my unpretentious game will bring a smile to all of you.

It doesn't matter if we grew up, what is important is that we have not become boring adults, but we can still listen, every now and then, to the voice of the child who still live inside us.

Thank you for keeping me company with your messages and comments.

There are not only negative sides in the hard times we are all going through.

When people speak about superheroes, they usually make reference to the cliché of a muscle-bound hunk, addicted to pumping iron, who smashes down the bad guys with his immense supernatural strength.

The superhero par excellence can see through walls, can fly, can jump from skyscraper to skyscraper…A lot of nonsense is talked and written about it (and I use the word "nonsense" because I'm basically polite).

We can find real superheroes anywhere, if we can pay attention to what really matters.

A superhero is a person who does extraordinary deeds and has the ability to do them in a way that a normal person couldn't.

So in order to be a superhero, you need a power that is more exceptional than any power a normal human being could possess, and you need to use that power to accomplish good deeds, but it has very little to do with strictly muscular power.

My personal superhero has great superpowers and he knows how to use them.

He's gifted with intelligence, perspicacity, foresight, sense of humour, empathy and self-irony. He's silent, pragmatic, powerful and whimsical like the best of house-elves, but he's also independent, with a strong personality.

Believe me, the best superheroes are not the ones starring in movies, but they may wear glasses and have a big nose, for instance.

A real personal superhero is the one who can transform every difficult situation in something largely bearable, the one who is always there when I need him, the one who can listen to me seriously and can make me laugh.

My domestic superhero is also the one who is able to find my favourite chocolates in this time of quarantine, because little superfluous things are exactly what I need to cheer up.

Self-isolation is not strictly respected by everyone.

In this case the cat and the photographer have broken the rule, although for a short time.

Frankly speaking I don't feel guilty, because I took just a short walk around my home.

I have started thinking of good sides of this so atypical condition we are facing.
There are some, if we make the necessary little effort to notice them.

The silence…I love this silence. Birds seem to sing louder than usual.
We can perceive their different voices, which under normal circumstances would be covered by car engines and people's chats.
From distance it's even possible to hear the remote passage of trains. Sometimes a bell, even though no church is visible.

In such a gorgeous spring day I feel pleasantly surprised at myself, because I'm in good mood.

I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it,

even if the sky is light blue and the sun is still shining.

Sometimes I can see her somehow out of her usual context,

and she looks like an embarrassed guest who arrives at a reception in advance.

The seasons alter."

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream

I think it's an interesting and useful exercise trying to find good sides in our forced self-isolation.

Time has a slower dimension in these weeks and it allows us to perceive everything with deeper attention.