Already at the age of two and a half...
Giastin was beginning to have a relationship of special friendship with Jesus.
She was sorry to see him suffer on the cross and kept Him company by telling Him what she lived every day. Together with her sister Rosaria, she told Him jokes and funny facts, to distract him from all the pain that people normally pour on him. In doing so, they were sure that Jesus would always go to see them to have fun.
Out of curiosity...
to understand everything that was written...
Giastin asked her sister to teach her to read and write when she was only five years old and she soon became passionate about daily reading of the Gospel for children.
From the age of four, she showed a great passion for drawing, making her prefer colors to toys. Her days went by happily, devoted to drawing and writing, but above all to her friends, who populated our home, and to the great love of her sister Rosaria, to whom she was very attached.
When her beloved sister died in 1996, Giastin was nine years old, and to her great chagrin, she abandoned all her passions for four years and then resumed them with great enthusiasm.
Not being able to enroll in the Art School...
as she would have liked...
for health reasons...
she began a passionate study of the artists most congenial to her, Monet and especially Van Gogh.
She painted and wrote a lot, so much so that in 2002 San Marco in Lamis hosted the first exhibition of her paintings entitled 'Il Volo', revived in Rignano Garganico in August of the same year.
She began to collaborate with the beatitutdo.it site in the section dedicated to children, called Beatitudokids, where she shared her passions and her discoveries, and offered a reflection on the values of life.
In June 2003, she proposed to San Marco, Apricena and Rignano Garganico a new exhibition entitled '…E Continuo A Volare...' [and I keep flying].
In 2003 she published a collection of poems and prayers presented to high school students in the town's municipal library, an event filmed and broadcast by RAI.
On February 21st, 2004, Giastin flew to heaven, and on June 4th and 5th of the same year, in Foggia, at Palazzo Dogana, the retrospective entitled 'Giastin racconta' was held, re-proposed in Otranto at the Diocesan Museum on June 19th.
Subsequently, the exhibition was hosted in Torremaggiore, in Rignano Garganico, in San Giovanni Rotondo (all in 2005) and in Sternatia (in August 2007).
On May 22, 2004, the Giastin Prize was established in the city of Asti's 'La Poesia Salva la Vita'. In 2005 she was included in the Bolaffi catalog for works of art, and since 2008 she has been one of the contemporary poets in the Provincial Library of Foggia.
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For each event...
Giastin always prepared much earlier.
Like for Christmas, she already started in September for the decorations to be made.
Because every year, the crib theme was different, and so the tree changed style too.
She never got bored.
In the evening, when I said to her: 'Giastin, I'll put you to bed', she replied: 'Why are the days so short?' I looked at her, and laughing I said: 'Giastin, you are unique, I believe that the good Lord threw the mold after creating you.'
She laughed out loud replying: 'Sure mom, He wants me unique in the world!'
What a subject that she was!
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