Se o céu se confunde com o mar

Se o céu se confunde com o mar, estás no sítio certo.

Lorina Ventura

Cascais.

My life

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind...

Andy Andrews

Sol(idão)

Olhar de frente o Sol Assim se aprendem

As letras iniciais da Solidão

David Mourão-Ferreira

Un Amour de Jeunesse

This is not just "another french movie" to add to my list... This is in fact a french movie too good to be true.

If someone had told me about this movie, its story specially, I wouldn't probably believe. Me, myself, even think I'm silly for the "been there, done that" feeling felt throughout the movie... The love, the architecture, the music - "Gracias A La Vida" song -, the photography - and the very good photography of the movie - and, as this wasn't all good, hurtful and beautiful enough, there's the time. Of course.

"The rest, of course, is open to interpretation."

Un Amour de Jeunesse

Morning walks...

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.

Mary Ellen Chase 

La Délicatesse

Photo: Garance Doré

O nunca ter tido...

Dizer que tenho saudades tuas, agora
é uma espécie de mentira coberta com um pano de linho
Tenho somente saudades do que era antes de Ti
E isso é a cruz que carrego
Vincada e afiada que se pôs as minhas costas
E se me mexo me corta em dois
Como carne fina do talho gourmet
Comparação inadequada, eu sei
Mas a única que penso agora, que sou estreita.
Por vezes olho para o relógio, e já nem contando as horas
Reparo nas datas, extensas
Dou por mim a ver um mês
E no momento a seguir, o olho
E vejo dois meses, a correr
Pergunto-me se estou louca ou simplesmente
Exausta
O tempo deixa de ter nexo e o Mundo fica pequeno
Os dias passam como se não tivessem vida
E em vez de correr, existo
Durmo ao Luar e ao Sol
Como se tudo se tratasse do mesmo
Do sonho
Do sono
Explicar-te porque sinto saudades tuas, agora
é uma espécie de firmamento do caminho insano que percorro
Tenho somente saudades do Tempo que parava
Quando nos teus braços respirava
Sossegava
E agora não tenho sangue suficiente para estancar a ferida
Dura, profunda, dolorosa
Como os pés que piso
Que não são meus.

Sara da Costa Oliveira

Expressing yourself freely

Forwardness and audacity, always strike me and I find those qualities very alluring. Not necessarily as an example to follow, more as a way of expressing yourself freely.

So many women think they have to correspond to an ideal, that they absolutely have to want children, that they absolutely have to work, that they absolutely have to love fashion and share their life with someone... [...]*

 Garance Doré

*More here.

Mini city portraits

Found this selection a lovely glimpse for what it's to come anytime soon in a normal-size-pictures-"City portraits"-post.

Porto.
More here.

Coco Chanel on love and companionship

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone.
It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person.

I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

Coco Chanel