Beautiful voice, beautiful heart...Como la cigarra Gracias for being part of my youth and my adult life, Mercedes, and for your messages of peace and justice. Descansa em paz.
Poem Da Minha Aldeia (From My Village) by Fernando Pessoa under his heteronomy Alberto Caieiro., from the collection of poems O Guardador de Rebanhos (The herd keeper). From my village I see the universe.That´s why my village is as big as any other oneBecause I am the size of what I see And not the size of my height. In the cities life is smallerthan it is here in my house on the ...
I´m a gaucho, or gaúcha. In Brazil it means I was born in its southermost state, Rio Grande do Sul. There´s a whole lot of things that people say about Brazilian Gauchos, but they´re mostly stereotypes and, as such, I don´t listen to them or buy into them. You can´t put people into bottles and label them. Each one of us is so much more than a bottle content. Today, September 20th, gauchos ...
Epitaph, by Os Titãs (originally in Portuguese) "I should have loved more,cried more,seen the sunrise.I should have risked more,and even made more mistakes.I should have done what I wanted to do. I wanted to have accepted people the way they were.Each one knows the joy and the sorrows they bring in their hearts. Chance will protect me if I´m distracted.Chance will I should have ...
(Mozart Lhullier at 15 ; photo taken for his first job) My dad dropped out of school when he was 14. My grandfather had trusted the wrong people with his money, and one day he woke up to find out that the only thing he really owned were the clothes he was wearing. The boys, my father and uncle João, had to start working . Eventually my grandfather was able to recover the Summer house, his ...