Findings, thoughts and a varied assortment of random.Tumblr (3.0; @kailahbharath)http://kailahbharath.tumblr.com/<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdx849GqTK1raafar.jpg"/></p>http://kailahbharath.tumblr.com/post/36330316483http://kailahbharath.tumblr.com/post/36330316483Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:25:13 -0500<h3><em>“One Love” hidden in the hills of Renaissance Italy</em></h3> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdx7xnkj6J1raafar.jpg"/></p> <p>URBINO, Italy – Alessandro Fusco is leaning over a railing surrounded by lavender flowers and clay-tile rooftops when he suddenly jumps, waving his arms in excitement.</p> <p><em>Wow! Take the picture&#8230; Come, come, come. A humming bird… please, please you see it? Stay here, it’s there. Phew! That was great!</em></p> <p>Fusco, 22, is about as unconventional as a Jamaican bobsled team.<!-- more --></p> <p>Born and raised on the Italian Island of Sardinia, Fusco is a full-fledged Rastafarian, a follower of the faith and lifestyle borne of the anti-colonialism, poverty, spiritualism and marijuana of post-war Jamaica, a Caribbean island he has never seen.</p> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_519"> <p class="wp-caption-text">His dark brown hair is woven into long thick dreadlocks. He has his own reggae album entitled “Prisoner in Babylon” under his stage-name, ShakaRoot. He speaks English in a Jamaican accent, having learned the language listening to Bob Marley and other English-speaking reggae artists.</p> </div> <p>He pronounces the word thing as “ting.”</p> <p>Fusco is also a sociology student at the University of Urbino. During his off-time he enjoys being out in the rolling hills and sleeping under trees, despite having the option of a roof over his head. He appreciates nature so much he will at times stop in mid-conversation to acknowledge the presence of a scenic landscape, a humming bird or an interestingly coloured insect.</p> <p>Respecting Mother Nature is an important value in the Rastafarian movement.</p> <p>“Rasta is all about respect,” he says. “Water is a holy ting, a natural flow you have to respect. You have to give thanks to the water, to the air you breathe.”</p> <p>Rastafarian faith is Fusco’s way of life despite being raised and now surrounded by Italy’s Roman Catholic traditions. Fusco says people need to choose their own roads, follow their own paths and the Rasta life, no matter how odd it may seem here in Urbino, is his path.</p> <p>Read more&#8230; <a href="http://2011.inurbino.net/2011/07/italian-rasta-mon/" target="_blank">Urbino Project 2011</a></p>http://kailahbharath.tumblr.com/post/36328222053http://kailahbharath.tumblr.com/post/36328222053Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:50:00 -0500