Better days

"I feel part of the universe open up to meet me

My emotion so submerged broken down to kneeling

What's listening?

Voices they care

Had to somehow greet myself

Greet myself

Heard vibrations within my cells

In my cells

Singin' laaa

My love is saved for the universe

See me now I'm bursting

On one planet so many turns

Different worlds

Singin' laaa

Fill my heart with discipline

Put there for the teaching

In my head see clouds of stairs

Help me as I'm reaching

The future's paved

With better days

Night runnin'

From something

I'm running towards the day

Wide awake

All whispered

Once quiet

Now rising to a scream

Right in me

I'm fallin'

Free fallin'

World's calling me

Up off my knees

Oh, I'm soaring

Yeah, and darling

You'll be the one that I can need

And still be free

Our future's paved with better days"

Eddie Vedder

The journey

Foto: Valeschka Guerra
Local: Keukenhof Park


"One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.

"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.

You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.

It was already late enough,
and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.

But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do -
determined to save
the only life that you could save."

Mary Oliver

Invictus

"Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul."

William Ernest Henley

(1849 - 1902 / Gloucester / England)

TRADUÇÃO:

Tradutor: André Masini

"Do fundo desta noite que persiste

A me envolver em breu - eterno e espesso,

A qualquer deus - se algum acaso existe,

Por mi’alma insubjugável, agradeço.

Nas garras do destino e seus estragos,

Sob os golpes que o acaso atira e acerta,

Nunca me lamentei - e ainda trago

Minha cabeça - embora em sangue - ereta.

Além deste oceano de lamúria,

Somente o Horror das trevas se divisa;

Porém o tempo, a consumir-se em fúria,

Não me amedronta, nem me martiriza.

Por ser estreita a senda - eu não declino,

Nem por pesada a mão que o mundo espalma;

Eu sou dono e senhor de meu destino;

Eu sou o comandante de minha alma."

Happy Christmas

"Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself..."

Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

Grown-up Christmas List

Foto: Hugo Tinoco

Título: Boas Festas

Fonte: Olhares.com


"Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee
I wrote to you with childhood fantasies
Well, I'm all grown-up now
Can you still help somehow?
I'm not a child, but my heart still can dream

So here's my lifelong wish
My grown-up Christmas list
Not for myself, but for a world in need

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
Every man would have a friend
That right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown-up Christmas list

What is this illusion
called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in that blind belief
can we ever find the truth

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal our hearts
Every man would have a friend
That right would always win
And love would never end

This is my grown-up Christmas list
This is my only lifelong wish
This is my grown-up Christmas list"

Na voz de Michael Bublé

Breaking the habit

"I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
'Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright

So I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
Tonight"

Likin Park

Somewhere I have never travelled

"Um simples olhar teu facilmente me desabrocha
Embora eu me feche como os dedos da mão
Tu sempre abres pétala por pétala do meu ser,
como a Primavera abre a primeira rosa

(...)

Eu não sei dizer o que existe em ti que me prende
E me liberta..."

E. E. Cummings

Sorry to myself

"For hearing all my doubts so selectively and
For continuing my numbing love endlessly.
For helping you, and myself: not even considering
For beating myself up and over functioning.

To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one's been crueller than I've been to me.

For letting you decide if I indeed was desirable
For my self love being so embarrassingly conditional.
And for denying myself to somehow make us compatible
And for trying to fit a rectangle into a ball.

And to whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one's been crueller than I've been to me.

I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else.
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else.

For blaming myself for your unhappiness
And for my impatience when I was perfect where I was.
Ignoring all the signs that I was not ready,
And expecting myself to be where you wanted me to be.

To whom do I owe the first apology?
No one's been crueller than I've been to me.

And I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else.
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else.

Well, I wonder which crime is the biggest?
Forgetting you or forgetting myself...
Had I heeded the wisdom of the latter,
I would've naturally loved the former.

For ignoring you: my highest voices.
For smiling when my strife was all too obvious.
For being so disassociated from my body,
And for not letting go when it would've been the kindest thing.

To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

And I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else."

Composição: Alanis Morissette

Soulmate

"Incompatible, it don't matter though
'cos someone's bound to hear my cry
Speak out if you do
You're not easy to find

Is it possible Mr. Loveable
Is already in my life?
Right in front of me
Or maybe you're in disguise

Who doesn't long for someone to hold
Who knows how to love you without being told
Somebody tell me why I'm on my own
If there's a soulmate for everyone

Here we are again, circles never end
How do I find the perfect fit
There's enough for everyone
But I'm still waiting in line

Who doesn't long for someone to hold
Who knows how to love you without being told
Somebody tell me why I'm on my own
If there's a soulmate for everyone

If there's a soulmate for everyone

Most relationships seem so transitory
They're all good but not the permanent one

Who doesn't long for someone to hold
Who knows how to love you without being told
Somebody tell me why I'm on my own
If there's a soulmate for everyone"

Natasha Bedingfield

Love after love

"The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life."

Derek Walcott

Silent sea

"I was happy in my harbour
When you cut me loose
Floating on an ocean
And confused

Winds are whipping waves up
Like sky scrapers
And the harder they hit me
The less I seem to bruise

Oh when I
Find the controls
I'll go where I like
I'll know where I want to be
But maybe for now
I'll stay right here
On a silent sea"

KT Tunstall

Not as we...

"Reborn and shivering

Spat out on new terrain

Unsure unconvincing

This faint and shaky hour

Day one day one

start over again

Step one step one

I'm barely making sense for now

I'm faking it I'm pseudo making it

From scratch begin again but this time I as I

And not as we

Gun shy and quivering

Timid without a hand

Feign brave with steel intent

little and hardly here

Day one day one

start over again

Step one step one

I'm barely making sense for now

I'm faking it til I'm pseudo making it

From scratch begin again but this time I as I

And not as we

Eyes wet toward

Wide open frayed

If god's taking bets

I pray He wants to lose

Day one day one

start over again

Step one step one

I'm barely making sense for now

I'm faking it til I'm pseudo making it

From scratch begin again but this time I as I

And not as we"

Love is hard

"And it kicks so hard
It breaks your bones
Cuts so deep
It hits your soul
Tears you skin
And makes your blood flow
It’s better that you know
That love is hard

Love takes hostages
And gives them pain
Gives someone the power
To hurt you again and again"

James Morrison

Wedding vows 2

“Today’s the day my life begins.
All my life I’ve been just me, just a smart mouthed kid.
Today I become a man, today I become a husband.
Today I become accountable to someone other than myself.
Today I become accountable to you. To our future.
To all the possibilities that a marriage has to offer.
Together, no matter what happens, I’ll be ready.
For anything. For everything.
To take on life, to take on love.
To take on possibility and responsibility.
Today Izzie Stevens, our life together begins.
And I for one can’t wait.”

Alex Karev's wedding vows, Grey's Anatomy

OMG!!!

Wedding vows

“I could promise to hold you, and to cherish you.
I could promise to be there in sickness and in health.
I could say till death do us part. But I won’t.
Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope.
And I do not stand here, on my wedding day, optimistic or full of hope.
I am not optimistic. I am not hopeful.
I am sure. I am steady. And I know.
I am a heart man. I take them apart. I put them back together.
I hold them in my hands. I… am a heart man.
So this, I am sure, you are my partner, my lover, my very best friend.
My heart beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this.
I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands.
I promise you… me.”

Preston Burke's wedding vows, Grey's Anatomy

Blowin' in the wind

Foto: André Viegas
Título: Torres del Paine 21
Fonte: Olhares.com

"How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
...
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
...
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind."

Bod Dylan

To kill a mockingbird

"...summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other feel. With him, life was routine, without him, life was unbearable."

Scout Finch
by Harper Lee

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today"

"A couple hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success.
'Never leave that till tomorrow', he said, 'which you can do today'.
This is the man who discovered electricity.
You'd think more of us would listen to what he had to say.
I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess I'd say it has a lot to do with fear.
Fear of failure, fear of pain, fear of rejection.
Sometimes the fear is just of making a decision. Because, what if you're wrong?
What if you're making a mistake that you can't undo?"

...

'The early bird catches the worm'.
'A stitch in time saves nine'.
'He who hesitates is lost'.

"We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day.
Still, sometimes, we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin meant.
That knowing is better than wondering.
That waking is better than sleeping.
And that even the biggest failure, even the worst, most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying."

Meredith Grey, in Grey's Anatomy

High

"Will you be my shoulder when I'm grey and older?
Promise me tomorrow starts with you..."

James Blunt

i carry your heart with me

Foto: Vívian Corrêa


"i carry your heart with me
i carry it in my heart

i am never without it
anywhere i go you go, my dear
and whatever is done by only me
is your doing, my darling

i fear no fate
for you are my fate, my sweet
i want no world
for beautiful you are my world, my true

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life
which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart
i carry it in my heart"

E. E. Cummings

P.S.: Happy birthday