...and ice cream castles in the air..

"Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere, i've looked at cloud that way.
But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone.
So many things i would have done but clouds got in my way.

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions i recall.
I really don't know clouds at all.

Moons and junes and ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real; i've looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show. you leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

I've looked at love from both sides now,
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions i recall.
I really don't know love at all.

Tears and fears and feeling proud to say "i love you" right out loud,
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, i've looked at life that way.
But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, they say
I've changed.
Something's lost but something's gained in living every day.

I've looked at life from both sides now,
From win and lose, and still somehow
It's life's illusions i recall.
I really don't know life at all."

Joni Mitchell


How true, Joni, how true...

País inocente...

"(...) a infância. Esse país inocente, donde se é expulso sempre demasiado cedo, apenas se regressa em momentos privilegiados - a tais regressos se chama, às vezes, poesia (...).

Eugénio de Andrade, Em louvor das crianças.

"É preciso muito caos interior para poder parir uma estrela que dança". Nietzsche

(fonte, google imagens)



"Dwayne: I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all this crap-high school and everything-just skip it.
Frank: Do you know who Marcel Proust is?
Dwayne: He's the guy you teach.
Frank: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh... he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18... Ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that."

in, Little Miss Sunshine, de Jonathan Dayton e Valerie Faris, 2006.

Favourite flavor...

"I would still be on my feet"...

Incroyables et banales...

"Les hommes et les femmes dont vous aller faire la connaissance sont entrés dans ce film parce que leurs histoires étaient très incroyables ou très banales".
in, Les uns et les autres, de Caude Lelouch, 1980.

To know it for what it is...

"Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours."

in, "The hours", de Stephen Daldry, 2002.

Ignorance is bliss...

Numa aula do 11º ano...

Prof: "Dêem-me exemplos de mamíferos".

Aluno(s): "A cobra, os pássaros".


Alguns minutos depois:

"Dêem-me exemplos de animais anfíbios".

Aluno: "O homem".


As minhas dúvidas oscilam entre: chorar, rir ou...fugir???

Sweetness has a sound...

Compromise...

"[Alvy addresses a pair of strangers on the street]
Alvy Singer: Here, you look like a very happy couple, um, are you?
Female street stranger: Yeah.
Alvy Singer: Yeah? So, so, how do you account for it?
Female street stranger: Uh, I'm very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say.
Male street stranger: And I'm exactly the same way.
Alvy Singer: I see. Wow. That's very interesting. So you've managed to work out something?"

Annie Hall, de Woody Allen, 1977.

O (outro) efeito borboleta...

(fonte: Google imagens)

"O Lupus é uma doença auto-imune, em que o sistema imune, que normalmente protege o nosso corpo, se vira contra si próprio e o ataca, provocando inflamação e alteração da função do sistema afectado.

A inflamação provoca dor, calor, vermelhidão (ou rubor) e inchaço (ou edema).

Não existe causa conhecida de Lupus e não existe cura para esta doença.

O Lupus é uma doença crónica (para toda a vida), ainda que existam fases de remissão (em que a doença se encontre “adormecida”, i.e., inactiva) e fases de surto (em que a doença reactiva).

A doença pode afectar muitos órgãos e sistemas diferentes (daí a denominação sistémica) e podem existir formas muito diferentes da doença (i.e., os sintomas variam de doente para doente e até, no mesmo doente, de período para período).

O Lupus tem um amplo leque de gravidade, podendo ter complicações muito graves, que exigem atenção urgente. No entanto, as terapêuticas actuais permitem dar à maior parte dos doentes uma boa qualidade de vida."

Associação de doentes com lupus. (http://www.lupus.pt/).