Como hoje faço anos, tenho que dizer que...

Kafka ilustrado / Kafka illustrated

 

A metamorfose, Franz Kafka

Fernando Vicente

Ler a minha dor nos outros / My pain is their pain

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

James Baldwin

Um café e um poema

 

John Currin

ARTE POÉTICA

Num romance, uma chávena é apenas
uma chávena — que pode derramar
café sobre um poema, se o poeta,
bem entendido, for a personagem.
Num poema, mesmo manchado
de café, a chávena é certamente a
concha de uma mão — por onde eu
bebo o mundo, em maravilha, se tu,
bem entendido, fores o poeta.
No nosso romance, não sou sempre
eu quem leva as chávenas para a mesa
aonde nos sentamos a noite, de mãos dadas,
a dizer que a lata do café chegou ao fim,
mas a pensar que a vida é
que já vai bastante adiantada para os
livros todos que ainda pensamos ler.
No meu poema, não precisamos
de café para nos mantermos acordados:
a minha boca está sempre na concha da tua mão,
todos os dias há páginas nos teus olhos,
escreve-se a vida sem nunca envelhecermos.

Maria Rosário Pedreira

Livros ou e-books? / Books or e-books?

Voltou a chuva, bolas! / It's raining words, aleluia!

O sal sagrado

 

"The Foam Sprite", Herbert James Draper.

"Deve haver algo estranhamente sagrado no sal... está nas lágrimas e no mar."

Khalil Gibran

Ela / "She walks in beauty, like the night..."

 

Irene Sheri

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...

Lord Byron

"Love and a cough...": a poem by Anne Sexton

"As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love".

Anne Sexton

As leitoras de Miriam Briks / Women reading by Miriam Briks

Miriam Briks

Eu sou como Robinson... / I'm like Robinson...

...à espera de 6ª feira! :)
...waiting for friday!

Real beauty lies in-between spaces

"I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I’m coming to believe it’s in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there".

Shauna Niequist

Os livros como libertação / Books as release

 

Bernardo P. Carvalho

 

"She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release".

Peter Straub

20 sinais de que encontraste o trabalho que te apaixona / 20 Signs You’ve Found Your Passion

It’s often not until someone prompts us to think about the work that we do that we recognise how we truly feel about it. Sometimes, all it takes is the right question to make us look at our job in a whole new light. Today, I ask you this: How would you feel if you were to stay in your line of work forever?

If, upon reading that last sentence, you were filled with warm fuzzy feelings – congratulations, you might just have found your passion. Here are 20 signs that let you know that you’ve found the passion that makes your heart sing!

1. You consistently wake up before your alarm clock, excited to start work.
2. The idea of building your career fills you with anticipation, not dread.
3. You’re a little freaked out by the magnitude of everything that you have to do – not because you don’t want to do it, but because you want so badly to succeed.
4. You “productively procrastinate” – whenever you get bogged down in one task, you take a break and distract yourself with something that benefits your passion, too.
5. You get a little twinkle in your eye and a grin on your face whenever you’re asked what you do.
6. You’d rather stay up working than watching TV.
7. You sometimes dedicate your weekends to work, and don’t even mind doing so.
8. You’ve got an insatiable appetite for books, blog articles and anything else that you can get your hands on related to your field.
9. When you think of a life without your passion, you feel empty.
10. You make room in your life for your passion, scheduling personal appointments and everything else around building your dream.
11. You find it difficult to relate to people who have no desire to pursue their own dreams.
12. You’ve found yourself cutting out negative thinkers from your life. You won’t let small minds talk you out of big ideas!
13. You’d rather have a “dream lunch date” with your business idols than your favourite celebrities.
14. You wake up thinking about it. You go to sleep thinking about it. Actually, there aren’t many moments where you’re not thinking about it.
15. Your head is constantly spinning with ideas. You have brainwaves in the car, in the shower and any other inconvenient locations.
16. You hear others complaining about their jobs and careers and, although you feel sad for them, you’re thrilled that you can’t relate.
17. You’re constantly thinking of ways to improve your business and make it even better. You know you dream big, but you also work hard and back yourself with the confidence to try and make it happen.
18. You start realizing that friends, family and even total strangers start coming to you for advice related to your field or entrepreneurialism. 
19. Following your passion has taught you that you need to be working with something that you can throw your all into – whether its this passion or another one. You are no longer willing to settle for just a job that pays the bills but crushes your soul.
20. You found yourself nodding throughout this list, reaffirming that you’ve found your place. And knowing that you’re bold enough to pursue your passion? Well, gives you a completely indescribable feeling in the most wonderful way. 

Anastasia Amour

March 16, 2015

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