Sem título #289

Negative thoughts... just burst them!

Pormenores #176

Ornamentos de madeira para árvores de natal:

um anjo anuncia ao mundo o nascimento de Jesus...

... em madeira da Terra Santa.

Caprichos #400

Sunny spots...

Retirado co contexto #411

Ó Senhora do Carmo!!

Igreja do Sacramento, Lisboa

Parece que estou a ouvir #386

From the Matins of Christmas...

Nativity Scene by Hans Baldung, 1520

O Magnum Mysterium

Westminster Cathedral Choir

O magnum mysterium
O magnum mysterium
Et admirabile sacramentum
Et admirabile
Et admirabile
Sacramentum

O magnum mysterium
O magnum mysterium
Ut animalia
Viderent Dominum
Ut animalia
Viderent Dominum natum
Iacentem in praesepio!

Beata Virgo
Cujus viscera
Meruerunt
Beata Virgo
Portare Dominum Christum 

Alleluia! Alleluia! (O magnum mysterium) 

Alleluia! Alleluia! (O magnum mysterium) 

Et admirabile sacramentum

Ut animalia
Viderent Dominum natum
Iacentem in praesepio!
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Alle...
Alleluia!

_________________

English translation

O great mystery,

and wonderful sacrament,

that animals should see the newborn Lord,

lying in a manger!

Blessed is the virgin whose womb

was worthy to bear

the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Alleluia!

Coisas que não mudam #615

A ceia

Sem título #288

Care for yourself and tell those you love to care for themselves too

Coisas que não mudam #614

Luzes de Lisboa

Retirado do contexto #410

Sonhos de mãe

Palavras lidas #535

Passage
by Marilyn Donnelly

He who
took the steps
by two
now pauses
on each tread
and I
who love him so
am filled
with dread.

Ditto #534

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

--Orson Welles

Coisas que não mudam #613

O fiel amigo nos supermercados antes do Natal

Parece que estou a ouvir #385

Amor Argentina

by Coldplay

One, two
One, two, three, four

Siento, Señor
No hablo bien español
El idioma del sol
Porque soy idiota

Pero ella nación dentro de mi corazón
Es cuando por emoción
Algo explota

Del amor soy explorador
Busco alrededor por toda mi vida
Pero, Señor, aquí la búsqueda terminó
Viví el amor en Argentina

Ahora estoy en nuestra gira mundial
Empezamos aquí
Acabamos aquí
Porque en este lugar es más profundo
Yo recibí y luego aprendí
Amor para todo el mundo

Del amor soy explorador
Busco alrededor por toda mi vida
Pero, Señor, aquí la búsqueda terminó
Porque viví el amor en Argentina

Todos
Porque el amor, soy explorador
Porque viví el amor en Argentina

Sem título #287

Fulfillment! You don't need that much to get it.

Espantos #651

Cartier Lisboa

Inverno #75

Frost unmelted for days and newly accumulated every morning

Parece que estou a ouvir #384

Colors
Black Pumas

I woke up to the morning sky, first
Baby blue, just like we rehearsed
When I get up off this ground
I shake leaves back down to the brown, brown, brown, brown
'Til I'm clean

Then I walk where I'd be shaded by the trees
By a meadow of green
For about a mile
I'm headed to town, town, town, in style

With all my favorite colors, yes, sir
All my favorite colors, right on
My sisters and my brothers
See 'em like no other
All my favorite colors

It's a good day to be
A good day for me
A good day to see
My favorite colors, colors
My sisters and my brothers
They see 'em like no other
All my favorite colors

Now take me to other side
Little bitty blues bird flies
And gray clouds, or white walls, or blue skies
We gon' fly, feel alright

And we gon' (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh), yeah
It sound like (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh), yeah
The least I can say, I anticipate
A homecoming parade as we renegade
In the morning, right on

With all my favorite colors, yes, sir
All my favorite colors, yes, ma'am
My sisters and my brothers
See 'em like no other
All my favorite colors

All my favorite colors, right
All my favorite colors, yes, ma'am
My sisters and my brothers
See 'em like no other
All my favorite colors

It's a good day to be
A good day for me
A good day to see my favorite colors, colors

My sisters and my brothers
They see 'em like no other
All my favorite colors

Sem título #286

Full hibernation service...

Palavras lidas #534

At the County Fair, 1956
by Charles Darling

For a nickel, a machine
called An Expression of Faith
would take your dime
and squash it.
All tubes and gears and lights,
the thing would groan, squeak,
fart, smoke, and finally drop
a little silver oval in your hands,
hot as a pistol,
with Jesus's face on one side
and the Lord's Prayer on the other.
I took my medallion
home for Grandma,
but she wouldn't keep it
because it was Catholic
and had "trespasses"
instead of "debts"
and left out the part
about the kingdom
and the power and the glory.
She gave it back
and I went downtown
and set it on the railroad track.
And after the train went by
I had a piece of silver
smooth as glass and that
says something about
power and glory, by God.

Inverno #74

It's beginning to look a lot like winter...

but in a sense this is the ideal snow:

enough to cover the ground

but mostly melting with time and walking past

 even though temps remain low and some details remain.