Palavras lidas #401

The Year
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What can be said in New-Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?

The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.

We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.

We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.

We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of the year.

Coisas que não mudam #479

Em Turim, a loucura do calcio dá nisto

Palavras lidas #400

I Love You
Jenny George

Her eyes were mostly shut. She didn’t speak.
The sun’s slow exile crossed the wall above the bed.

But once, when I bent to feed her a drop
of morphine from the little plastic beak,

her hand shot up and gripped my arm. She looked right at me.
When she said the words, it sounded like she meant: Don’t leave me.

From the very first, we love like this: our heads turning
toward whatever mothers us, our mouths urgent

for the taste of our name.

Caprichos #524

Os gatos de hoje: / Todays cats:

o gato cantor na caneca do pequeno almoço, /

the singing cat from my breakfast mug,

os gatos dos últimos presentes de natal, /

the cats of the last Christmas presents,

Reddy, o gato dos vizinhos que entra pela cozinha /

Reddy, the neighbors' cat that comes through the kitchen

à espera de ser escovado, / looking to be brushed,

os gatos do calendário / calendar cats

os gatos da arte urbana. / street art cats.

Coisas que não mudam #478

Numa mesa de Natal italiana,

pedaços de Portugal

Pormenores #154

Ontem a descolagem de Lisboa teria sido banal e sem história...

não fosse o sorriso pouco depois de o Trancão encontrar o Tejo!

Numa sala perto de mim #392

Shoplifters (2018) tells the story of various lives brought together in unlikely ways. The group survives on a pension, occasional low paid jobs, and petty crime. Yet they support and care for each other as a real "family" should, making you wonder whether each individual is better off in this life at odds with the law. Still, the line between right and wrong is very clear, at least for some, and the situation unravels quickly, for better or worse... it's not because it is right that it is better.

Caprichos #523

Cheshire cat

Caprichos #522

Crumble/Mousse de chocolate com flor se sal, pimenta rosa

e gelado de banana da Madeira

por cima um spray de aguardente da Lourinhã

Numa sala perto de mim #391

O Regresso de Mary Poppins (2018), cinquenta e quatro anos depois. Uma história semelhante, uma similar propensão para o fantástico, melhores efeitos especiais, um semelhante excesso de cor e coreografia, canções diferentes. Não envergonha o primeiro filme.

Caprichos #521

Getting spoiled a da early / Mimada com um dia de antecedência

Coisas que não mudam #477

Hoje há mais um solstício de inverno

Caprichos #520

Dióspiros no inverno

Coisas que não mudam #476

Beautiful sunset colors over Funchal

Belas cores do pôr-do-sol sobre o Funchal

Retirado co contexto #256

Não se sabe a data exacta,

mas há um iminente aniversário redondo ao virar da esquina

The exact date is unknown,

but there's an impending round anniversary around the corner

Coisas que não mudam #475

Natal no Funchal: luzes e presépios floridos

Ditto #399

Enjoy the little things in life. For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.

– Robert Brault

Coisas que não mudam #474

Ambientes de trabalho com a presença de animais...

hoje, da janela do meu gabinete vejo papagaios

Palavras lidas #399

Bear In Mind
by John Martin

A bear is chasing me through a meadow
and I’m running as fast as I can but
he’s gaining on me—it seems
he’s always gaining on me.
I’m running and running but also
thinking I should just
turn around and say,
“Stop it! Stop chasing me. We both
know you aren’t going to catch me.
All you can ever do is chase me. So,
think about it—why bother?”

The bear does stop,
and he sits on his haunches and thinks,
or seems to think. And then
the bear says to me,
“I have to chase you, you know
that. Or you should. And, sure,
we both know I’ll never catch you.
So, why not give us both a break and
just stop thinking about me?”

But, with that said, he gets back on four feet,
sticks his long pink tongue out, licks down
both sides of his snout. Then he sighs, looks
behind himself, then at me and says, “Okay,
ready when you are.”

Cores de Outono #59

Em Barcelona ainda há folhas nas árvores,

em Coventry já não, há quase um mês.

Coisas que não mudam #473

Britain being Britain is like cats being cats... without the adorable factor.

Caprichos #519

Missing Rolfie

Retirado do contexto #255

In attesa di Torino

Sem título #100

End of term rainbow

Caprichos #518

Meias divertidas

e sazonais

Caprichos #517

It was a hell of a ham tasting party... long live Spanish ham!

Foi uma bela prova de presunto... viva o presunto ibérico!

Coisas que não mudam #472

Já o Hanukkah vai a meio

Caprichos #516

Rolfie, you melt my heart...

Palavras lidas #398

Tenho tanto sentimento
por Fernando Pessoa

Temos, todos que vivemos,
Uma vida que é vivida
E outra vida que é pensada,
E a única vida que temos
É essa que é dividida
Entre a verdadeira e a errada.

Caprichos #515

Delicias com nome de gato

Delicious cat-named things

Ditto #398

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

– Rumi

Caprichos #514

Eça e os Maias -- Tudo o que tenho no saco

Exposição à Gulbenkian de 30 de Novembro a 18 de Fevereiro, no ano em que se comemora o centésimo trigésimo aniversário da publicação da obra maior da literatura portuguesa em 1888. Entrada livre.

Palavras lidas #397

Humdrum
by Carl Sandburg

If I had a million lives to live
and a million deaths to die
in a million humdrum worlds,

I’d like to change my name
and have a new house number to go by
each and every time I died
and started life all over again.

I wouldn’t want the same name every time
and the same old house number always,
dying a million deaths,
dying one by one a million times:
—would you?
or you?
or you?

Pormenores #153

Rolfie sleeps deeply

while showing his quality teeth :-)