Caprichos #587

Venaria Reale, verso a Torino

Sem título #111

Sunset... Sunrise!

Caprichos #586

Trazer um pouco de primavera para casa

Bringing a bot of spring home

Foi neste dia #356 (1521)

Há 499 anos morria Fernão Magalhães na remota Ilha de Mactan nas Filipinas, depois ter feito a passagem entre o Atlântico e o Pacífico e antes de concluir a primeira viagem de circumnavegação de que há registo.

499 years ago Ferdinand Magellan died in the remote island of Mactan in the Philippines, after successfully crossing from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but before having concluded the first circumnavigation voyage on record.

Primavera #117

Mais primavera / More spring

Coisas que não mudam #547

Salgueiro Maia

Aquele que na hora da vitória
Respeitou o vencido

Aquele que deu tudo e não pediu paga

Aquele que na hora da ganância
Perdeu o apetite
Aquele que amou os outros e por isso
Não colaborou com sua ignorância ou vício

Aquele que foi «Fiel à apalavra dada à ideia tida»
Como antes dele mas também por ele
Pessoa disse

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, in Musa / O Búzio de Cós e Outros Poemas

Sem título #110

Avoid people... in general 😂😂

Coisas que não mudam #546

Pares de patos (ou gansos)

inusitadamente à saída do supermercado, ou junto à água,

mas sempre aos pares.

Primavera #116

Primavera em Lisboa

Palavras lidas #458

Weather
by George Bilgere

My father would lift me
to the ceiling in his big hands
and ask, How’s the weather up there?
And it was good, the weather
of being in his hands, his breath
of scotch and cigarettes, his face
smiling from the world below.
O daddy, was the lullaby I sang
back down to him as he stood on earth,
my great, white-shirted father, home
from work, his gold wristwatch
and wedding band gleaming
as he held me above him
for as long as he could,
before his strength failed
down there in the world I find myself
standing in tonight, my little boy
looking down from his flight
below the ceiling, cradled in my hands,
his eyes wide and already staring
into the distance beyond the man
asking him again and again,
How’s the weather up there?

Ditto #438

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

--Voltaire

Sem título #109

Porque o domingo de páscoa foi só há uma semana mas a época pascal vai até ao pentecostes (este ano a 31 de Maio). Boa Páscoa!

Coisas que não mudam #545

Something good... good night!

Primavera #115

Full force beyond the close-ups

Em força para além dos grandes planos

Primavera #114

Full force / Em força

Caprichos #585

Lanchinho de quarentena

Pormenores #159

A primavera é como o tempo... não pára! Nem os insectos que exploram o pólen das flores.

Spring is like time... it doesn't stop! Neither do the insects that exploit the pollen in the new flowers.

Coisas que mudaram #6

Na Coreia, coelhos da páscoa mascarados, mas não de carnaval

In Korea, easter bunnies in costume, but not for carnival/halloween

Sem título #108

Not enough for some people... 😂😂😂

Palavras lidas #457

The Learning Curve
by Louis Jenkins

There are certain concepts that I only vaguely under-
stand but that people talk about all the time. You
frequently hear the term “learning curve,” for instance.
I suppose that refers to how one learns a new skill or
gains knowledge over a period of time, described as an
ascending arc from zero (knowing nothing) to ten, the
zenith (knowing all there is to know about a thing). Then
comes the gradual descent, the arc of forgetting, back
to zero. Then, feet firmly planted on the ground in the
batting box of ignorance, the learning curve ball comes
whistling past and slowly you come to understand that
once again you are out.

Ditto #437

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

--Voltaire

Parece que estou a ouvir #312

John Prine 10.10.1946 - 07.04.2020

That's the way that the world goes round
John Prine

I know a guy that's got a lot to lose.
He's a pretty nice fellow but he's kind of confused.
He's got muscles in his head that ain't never been used.
Thinks he owns half of this town.
Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose.
Beats his old lady with a rubber hose,
Then he takes her out to dinner and buys her new clothes.
That's the way that the world goes 'round.

That's the way that the world goes 'round.
You're up one day and the next you're down.
It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown.
That's the way that the world goes 'round.

I was sitting in the bathtub counting my toes,
When the radiator broke, water all froze.
I got stuck in the ice without my clothes,
Naked as the eyes of a clown.
I was crying ice cubes hoping I'd croak,
When the sun come through the window, the ice all broke.
I stood up and laughed, thought it was a joke
That's the way that the world goes 'round.

Espantos #605

Maior amplitude térmica por cá

mas também mais calor por estes dias

Retirado do contexto #275

Diferentes, mas chegaram...

PARABÉNS!

Sem título #107

😂😂😂😂

Primavera #113

Por todo o lado, mas sem se poder ver diariamente

Everywhere but not possible to see on a daily basis

Espantos #604

Pittsburgh International Airfield these days, and around the world

Aeroporto internacional de Pittsburgh por estes dias, como por todo o mundo

Coisas que mudaram #5

Social distancing / Mantendo a distância

Palavras lidas #456

Life
Emma Lowrey Williams

We can not tell what happiness
We might on earth possess
If in singleness of heart
We would strive to act a proper part.
‘Tis true we see the effects of sin
All without and all within.
We long may live a life in vain,
Much good possess, but still complain.
We may appear to other eyes,
To be extremely rich and wise;
But if our hearts are not right,
Life will not be beautiful and bright.
Oh! may our life, day by day,
In love and duty pass away;
And at last when our bodies die,
We may live in that world above the sky;
Where free from sin, death and pain,
The good will meet and love again.

Ditto #436

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

--Beryl Bainbridge