Yesterday my father left us. I wouldn't want to write, but I would have liked to honor him during the funeral function to recount his message, the message he left us with his life. I didn't get a chance or knew how to find the opportunity. But I have to do it, on purpose, to honor him, because his life leaves us an important message.

My dad was making himself noticed. Positive or negative, he was never anonymous. It wasn’t even the day of death. Double earthquake in Florence yesterday. When ever the earthquake in Florence! It is the strength of the invisible and the irrational. Let me think about this. But there is one constant message in his life: Love for his family. The Family is that important core that enables us to manifest the principle of "love your neighbor as yourself" that Christ left us. In family exercise, it allows us to understand and live it, thus being an educational example to extend as much as possible to each of our loved ones, without limits. In the time of individualism, this principle is revolutionary, as it is countertrend. My father put love for our Family members before himself. One of the ways he did it was Protection. “I felt protected by him” I heard my mother say yesterday to a friend who came forward to honor his passing. In fact, one of the images I remember the most, even though at least forty years have passed, is when, as a child, I hugged him with my legs covered by velvet pants. I didn’t intentionally talk to him in the last few months, despite the memory coming back several times, because I knew he would cry and sulk at me: “Why are you making me cry? ". Once, during a teenage outburst, sitting on my bed, he posed in front of me to try to figure out how to help me. If I needed it he was there. If I didn't ask he proposed. Family Protection has also looked at these last months and days, suffering from acute myeloid leukemia. Never meant to be bothered. Realizing he was becoming a burden on my mom, he asked us to be transferred to a center that would accompany him to death. He wasn't afraid to die alone. The important thing was not to represent a burden, the important thing was the Protection of all of us, of my mum above all, since the weight was on her.

We have a strength within us that needs to manifest by responding to that principle: love your neighbor as yourself. If we don’t manifest it, a kind of bomb is generated within us that then explodes in uncontrolled ways. This is why that principle, more than a precept of difficult execution, is a suggestion that responds to the Truth of our deepest Nature. We are good when we manifest it. We are wrong if we don't manifest it. Behold, the life of my Father and he left me this.

P.S. I ask relatives and friends who can read here, to pass this message to those who knew him, to those who attended the function today.