Thank you, Master Olmi

We hear the news of Master Ermanno Olmi’s death. Beyond the sadness related to the disappearance of a great artist, we carry the memory of a special meeting in our hearts.

In 2011, one of our business partners visited Master Olmi at his place in Asiago. The hospitality was simple and friendly: since the director was always in search of alternative paths of humanity, he showed interest in the history of family communities that are at the root of our Cooperative.

We arranged a meeting in the Community of Castellazzo with Bruno Volpi, another great person recently deceased who was founder of the historical Community of Villapizzone and the Associazione Comunità e Famiglia (Community and Family Association). Those who were present at the event were lucky enough to listen to an aware but never given up reading of the present as well as hope for young people and ideals to be implemented in real life choices: the common feeling was about lives that the weight of years hand’t burdened, but strengthened by the true and real experience of humanity which gave them a confident look toward the future.

The Master and his wife came to visit also our Di Mano in Mano store in Cambiago: a lot of questions and interest for a different way of living the job itself, a lot of meetings with the members and the guys and a group photo that is currently hung on the office wall. 

Then the lunch together in our dining hall and the stories told in front of a delicious meal. 

It’s not to be taken from granted that a person with such a high cultural knowledge behaved with that simplicity among our guys: his deep hospitality abilities, his humanity is what we would like to remember about Master Olmi, along with our gratitude for the day that he donated us.