KITES

Palestinians kids have learned another game: they let kites fly.

Someone always did it, but this summer was like a challenge, everybody was doing it.

Everyone was making its own kite and the game consisted to give the kite headway.

They had to try several times before to succeed on it.

In the evening, before sunset, the biblical wind of the day, began to blow and everywhere in the old city everybody could see kites in the sky with their long coloured tails.

Alberto Mello

Monk of the Fraternity of Bose, Jerusalem

translator: Luca Pulitini

oil on canvas 50x50 (2003)