Dave Brubeck - Take Five
18 May 2014
17 May 2014
Milano, mi manchi!
More times than I probably notice, I still sigh about Milano city and my time there...
What's next is nothing but the result - random but very dear selection - of a moment when I bumped into my Milano-photos and decided to "confront" them, which, ever since I left the city and as good nostalgic I am, hasn't been always easy!
Duomo
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Duomo
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Streets
Duomo
Stazione Centrale
Blue Note
More here & here & here.
16 May 2014
Equilíbrio
Sou agora um homem diferente. Parece-me que vejo o Universo, com o único
olho que me resta, sob um ângulo diverso. Já não vejo o que é feio e
sórdido, mas só o que é belo, doce e puro. Até os homens e as mulheres
que me rodeiam não me parecem os mesmos que eram dantes. Por uma curiosa
ilusão de óptica, não os vejo tais como são, mas como deveriam ser,
tais como teriam querido ser, se houvessem podido. Ainda posso ver, com o
meu olho cego, boa quantidade de imbecis pavonearem-se à minha roda;
mas já não me irritam os nervos como outrora; o seu palavrório deixa-me
indiferente; deixá-los falar. Por agora não posso ir mais longe; temo
que, para chegar a amar os meus semelhantes, me seja necessário perder o
outro olho também. Não posso perdoar-lhes a sua crueldade com os
animais. Penso que se opera no meu cérebro uma espécie de evolução
retrospectiva que me afasta cada vez mais dos outros homens e me acerca
cada vez mais da Madre Natureza e dos animais.
Axel Munthe, in O Livro de San Michele
15 May 2014
'Alfresco'
Decor inspiration: 'alfresco'.
Good people, good food, good wine and good weather. All I need! (Not so easy to have though...)
Also, I'm loving the long table sharing concept - picnic table, they say - find it really cozy and an enabler to get people involved.
Photo: Sofi
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Photo: Anine Bing
Photo: The Glamourai
All the rest pic: ?
14 May 2014
7 May 2014
No more pink princess crap
when i was child princess/pink was huge in advertising. girl = princess. i was fortunate to be friends with my older brother who kindly and automatically included in activities like building and that is exactly what i wanted to spend my life doing. quietly building. and now as adult there are few things i like more than to focus my mind on building something, whether products for our customers with our team, company plans, large scale painting, planning installations in woods, or to see what others are working on.
to feel confident in anything is to have engaged in struggle to master. that in my opinion is what success looks like. willful engagement with struggle for the benefit of learning how. girls do that naturally when they're given the opportunity.
tomboy as a term for girls who happen to like doing the things i did as a girl, yes its a term but nothing i was doing felt boyish to me. it felt me-ish. as in, yeah i like to do this and why the hell not. this is life and this is on the menu. most of lifes enjoyments have nothing to do with anything but personality and taste and what percentage exactly has to do with gender? - well i dont know and how are we going to quantify that! it is going to vary so much from person to person so what is the answer here. human beings are different and also alike. i've met extraordinary kindness in men and extraordinary kindness in women. i want to rise to that, i want to know how to deserve that. what else matters, i am not sure. you know what i'm saying.
in terms of princess, not that there is anything wrong with princess, and princess is pretty great in terms of the outfit, but what exactly is she doing/focusing on? what is so advantageous about being that title in particular. does she have ruling power ultimately? in more than just the lower courts? also is she waiting to be queen or what. whats the plan here.
But you know the idea that girls automatically gravitate to princess - yes modern advertising is a powerful thing. it can get adults to reach for things as well. to see more examples of this look at the remarkable power of advertising in another area: Anti-Age. the idea that the passage of time is something to be 'fixed' via buying a little jar of cream. there is nothing wrong with little jar of cream, they can be really nice and why not. but age of course is a natural occurrence that happens to every living being on the planet. to the little song birds. to the trees. even to the baby. and is the baby ashamed of that? no. the baby doesn't need to fool around with that! the baby is busy doing other things. as it should be. get back to playing baby and dont worry about it! to be convinced to be ashamed of aging is not natural, and not worth a damn. the purpose of aging is to gain experience, wisdom, to advance and to figure out how to share, how to give something true to another. it is the ultimate opportunity.
lastly the cultural significance of the color pink is fascinating, to see what modern advertising has done to that color through promotion and repetition of an idea is incredible. pink itself is a color. you know what im saying. its not inclusive or exclusive. human beings can love this color...it is a beautiful color. how could it not be. and it is infinite to look at color. one can spend whole life just looking at color and what a life.
how to choose one color to say it is the one about girls.
all of them, i choose them all.
to feel confident in anything is to have engaged in struggle to master. that in my opinion is what success looks like. willful engagement with struggle for the benefit of learning how. girls do that naturally when they're given the opportunity.
tomboy as a term for girls who happen to like doing the things i did as a girl, yes its a term but nothing i was doing felt boyish to me. it felt me-ish. as in, yeah i like to do this and why the hell not. this is life and this is on the menu. most of lifes enjoyments have nothing to do with anything but personality and taste and what percentage exactly has to do with gender? - well i dont know and how are we going to quantify that! it is going to vary so much from person to person so what is the answer here. human beings are different and also alike. i've met extraordinary kindness in men and extraordinary kindness in women. i want to rise to that, i want to know how to deserve that. what else matters, i am not sure. you know what i'm saying.
in terms of princess, not that there is anything wrong with princess, and princess is pretty great in terms of the outfit, but what exactly is she doing/focusing on? what is so advantageous about being that title in particular. does she have ruling power ultimately? in more than just the lower courts? also is she waiting to be queen or what. whats the plan here.
But you know the idea that girls automatically gravitate to princess - yes modern advertising is a powerful thing. it can get adults to reach for things as well. to see more examples of this look at the remarkable power of advertising in another area: Anti-Age. the idea that the passage of time is something to be 'fixed' via buying a little jar of cream. there is nothing wrong with little jar of cream, they can be really nice and why not. but age of course is a natural occurrence that happens to every living being on the planet. to the little song birds. to the trees. even to the baby. and is the baby ashamed of that? no. the baby doesn't need to fool around with that! the baby is busy doing other things. as it should be. get back to playing baby and dont worry about it! to be convinced to be ashamed of aging is not natural, and not worth a damn. the purpose of aging is to gain experience, wisdom, to advance and to figure out how to share, how to give something true to another. it is the ultimate opportunity.
lastly the cultural significance of the color pink is fascinating, to see what modern advertising has done to that color through promotion and repetition of an idea is incredible. pink itself is a color. you know what im saying. its not inclusive or exclusive. human beings can love this color...it is a beautiful color. how could it not be. and it is infinite to look at color. one can spend whole life just looking at color and what a life.
how to choose one color to say it is the one about girls.
all of them, i choose them all.
6 May 2014
The Way
I'm watching "The Way" 2 days after I did "El Camino de Santiago de Compostela" myself, and I don't know if I should laugh or cry!... I'm doing both.
It was without a doubt one of the greatest shits I've done in life.
"The Way is a very personal journey"
- that is the ultimate truth, and, as in all journeys of life, it's also a thing you will never, ever understand unless you do it (not mean to be rude, it's just the way some "things" work). Quite impossible to describe and I don't think I'm gonna try.
Feeling more blessed than ever.
Short and assertive
All little girls should be encouraged to be smart, strong, brave, funny, caring and creative.
No more pretty princess crap.
No more pretty princess crap.
