Foi neste dia #156 (1902)

Há 109 anos nascia Carlos Drummond de Andrade em Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
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Poesia

Gastei uma hora pensando em um verso
que a pena não quer escrever.
No entanto ele está cá dentro
inquieto, vivo.
Ele está cá dentro
e não quer sair.
Mas a poesia deste momento
inunda minha vida inteira.

Numa sala perto de mim #175

Greenfingers (2000), a story of social rehabilitation inspired by actual events.

Pormenores #70

Ice coating

Cores de Outono #11

Peak of the colors in middle Tennessee

Caprichos #181

Don Giovaaaaaaaanni... a ópera onde é sempre difícil dar conta das mulheres, que são mais que as mães, como é próprio de um Don Juan ;-)

Cores de Outono #10

Qual o país mais evocado pelo Outono?

... será que a pergunta faz sentido?

pistas...

... sem sombra de dúvida, o Canadá! ;-)

Espantos #308

O vermelho das árvores!

Foi neste dia #155 (1147)

Há 864 anos Afonso Henriques reconquistava Lisboa depois de um cerco de quatro meses. A sua estátua no castelo de São Jorge, presente da cidade do Porto, foi inaugurada há 64 anos por ocasião do oitavo centenário.

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864 years ago Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon after a four month siege. His statue in Saint George's castle, a present from Porto, was inaugurated 64 years ago for the eight-hundredth anniversary.

Parece que estou a ouvir #119

Memórias de patins clássicos...

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Brand new key

Melanie Safka

I rode my bicycle past your window last night
I roller skated to your door at daylight
It almost seems like you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out you see
I been looking around awhile
You got something for me
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key

I ride my bike, I roller skate, don't drive no car
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive
I been all around the world
Some people say, I done all right for a girl

I asked your mother if you were at home
She said, yes .. but you weren't alone
Oh, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you've got something I need

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out to see
La la la la la la la la, la la la la la la
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key

Numa sala perto de mim # 174

The Help

Mother to daughter: Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family

Numa sala perto de mim #173

Daniel Deronda (2002), BBC's adaptation of George Eliot's classic novel into a 4-episode mini-series, tells the story of a young English gentleman whose search for purpose leads him to deal with different people and discover his identity.

Caprichos #180

Just for fun!

Numa sala perto de mim #172

Life in a Day (2011) an innovative amateur documentary project with the single purpose of showing life on July 24, 2010. The producers received more than 4500 hours of videos from 192 countries. After a monumental job of compilation, editing and sound, the 90-minute movie shows that despite the differences in geography, culture, language, religion, traditions and purchasing power, everybody sleeps, eats, has hopes and fears, loves and foes. A movie to think about the joys and the tragedies of life... all in one day!

Foi neste dia #154 (1931)

Há oitenta anos inauguraram o Cristo

(o -Redentor, não o -Rei)

Cores de Outono #9

E as cores começam a mudar...

Ditto #191

Sometimes...

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... it is almost quite as difficult to effect a severance of the true from the false as it is to extract Diana or Minerva from a rough block of marble.

--Descartes

Coisas que não mudam #167

Children's curiosity
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From a friend who grew up in an Israeli kibbutz:

...No, in general they didn't separate boys from girls. But, I have to say that I remember when, at the age of 8 or 9 (perhaps 10?), they separated boys and girls in the communal showers. There were some holes in the wall and we were all trying to take a peek at the girls shower... we were never interested before when we all showered together, and suddenly they separate us and curiosity came in :D

Caprichos #179

Sunday morning hike

Ditto #190

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

--Isaac Asimov

Numa sala perto de mim #171

Elsa and Fred (2005) because the purpose of life is to be lived... what's a life of regrets and indecisions worth? 

Take two seconds longer and I'm gone...