2 December 2014

Oh well!...

December is in and I'm feeling cozy today, dreaming of a place with snow, hot drinks, warm blankets and nothing to think about but what's in front of my eyes...
Oh well, imagine no further, my dear! That's just what's on the menu today! (!) I mean, honestly, does this place even exist?!








Lake Placid, New York

1 December 2014

Já gastámos as palavras pela rua, meu amor, 
e o que nos ficou não chega
para afastar o frio de quatro paredes.
Gastámos tudo menos o silêncio.
Gastámos os olhos com o sal das lágrimas,
gastámos as mãos à força de as apertarmos,
gastámos o relógio e as pedras das esquinas
em esperas inúteis.
Meto as mãos nas algibeiras e não encontro nada.
Antigamente tínhamos tanto para dar um ao outro;
era como se todas as coisas fossem minhas:
quanto mais te dava mais tinha para te dar.

Às vezes tu dizias: os teus olhos são peixes verdes.
E eu acreditava.
Acreditava,
porque ao teu lado
todas as coisas eram possíveis.

Mas isso era no tempo dos segredos,
era no tempo em que o teu corpo era um aquário,
era no tempo em que os meus olhos
eram realmente peixes verdes.
Hoje são apenas os meus olhos.
É pouco, mas é verdade,
uns olhos como todos os outros.

Já gastámos as palavras.
Quando agora digo: meu amor,
já se não passa absolutamente nada.
E no entanto, antes das palavras gastas,
tenho a certeza
que todas as coisas estremeciam
só de murmurar o teu nome
no silêncio do meu coração.

Não temos já nada para dar.
Dentro de ti
não há nada que me peça água.
O passado é inútil como um trapo.
E já te disse: as palavras estão gastas. 

Adeus.
Eugénio de Andrade

There is magic in the crisp and cold air this time of the year


I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about Autumn is perfect to me. Wooly jumpers, Wellington boots, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued pallate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.

Alys Fowler




30 November 2014

the E. word on Tumblr

I've been out of social networks for awhile and in fact, this blog is the only thing I kept non-stop with a lot of pleasure. Mainly because I feel this space somehow mine. I can make it look like how I want, I can 'design' it and this fact gives it some sort of identity, my identity, so that's why I like to see my things here more than any other page with standard formats and ways to communicate.
I like it here, very much. It's so quiet, isn't it?

As for Tumblr, the concept it's a bit different from this blog, but I think I like it too. It can work more of a visual diary with my favourites photos only, all easily accessible, and less need for words.
I don't know, but I decided to give it a try.

Here.


Temporada de Patos*

Un pato - Natalie Lafourcade



*Do filme "Temporada de Patos".

29 November 2014

Bones Chapel

The Bones Chapel was a prayer and meditation place about human condition, built by the Franciscans on the XVI century.
Its interior is completely covered by human bones from the graves of the town. At the entrance, on a classicist lintel in marble, the following and very well-known inscription can be read:
WE BONES THAT ARE HERE FOR YOURS WE WAIT 





Évora.

26 November 2014

I need to be alone


It's true: I need to be alone quite often.
I believe that our own selves is the only thing we have for sure, and we must be comfortable with our own skin and persona to enjoy solitude and even moments of loneliness. I think this a crucial experience in life, no other way we can find and get to know ourselves if we are afraid of our own lives. 
In the past years, I've been finding myself enjoying and reveling on moments alone more than anything in the world, because that's when I tend to do whatever I want to do, not depending on external factors. I'm such a demanding and thoughtful person and, more often than not, I accept nothing but the best for my life. This characteristic of mine inevitably makes it hard to find pleasure in being surrounded by people with whom I can't find empathy. I've had (I still do!) actually some moments when I couldn't avoid some social life which turned out to be a tremendous effort. Luckily, and thanks to some maturation of my personality and some personal choices, these moments are more and more rare.
Sometimes I get to realize the amount of people I cutted out of my life and it simply amazes me, I love it! It's something so empowering!
The same goes for other moments, take a job for instance. I'm no good on keeping up with things that don't please me.
Learning to say no and get to know ourselves are really very important steps for quality of life. It's a process, it's a process though...

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.  

Lee Krasner


25 November 2014

An excerpt of a letter written to Kafka's sister the moment he bought his first house (because there's nothing in this world I want more than a place by my own and my myself alone, can't wait for that moment to come): 

It's something very special to have one's own house, to shut out the world, not with the door just to the room or to the apartment, but the door to the whole building.

Franz Kafka

24 November 2014

Monsaraz

The absent of tourists, and people in general, a historical small village on the top of a hill in the long and plane land - Alentejo that is, a mantle of grey colors hovering over our heads making the green ones, the greenest this beautiful land can get (most of the time it's golden and dry), even more vibrant and the medieval presence, made this an eerie and beautiful saturday afternoon among shale streets and whitewashed walls.












 






21 November 2014

Aesthete

Aesthete: 

(noun) An individual who professes to be a lover of all things beautiful in life. An aesthete has a great eye and a developed sensitivity for the finer things in the world. They wildly appreciate art, and are connoisseurs of refinement, style and delicacy: all things lovely in life. They are visual creatures with an ardent desire to make their world beautiful.
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