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Mischief

mis·chief

(mĭs'chĭf) n.
1. Behavior that causes discomfiture or annoyance in another.
2. An inclination or tendency to play pranks or cause embarrassment.
3. One that causes minor trouble or disturbance

4. Damage, destruction, or injury caused by a specific person or thing

5. The state or quality of being mischievous.


The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.






"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"

(Bob Marley)







Klimt, The Kiss









Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss



Never try to trick me with a kiss
Pretending that the birds are here to stay;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.



A stone can masquerade where no heart is
And virgins rise where lustful Venus lay:
Never try to trick me with a kiss.



Our noble doctor claims the pain is his,
While stricken patients let him have his say;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.



Each virile bachelor dreads paralysis,
The old maid in the gable cries all day:
Never try to trick me with a kiss.



The suave eternal serpents promise bliss
To mortal children longing to be gay;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.



Sooner or later something goes amiss;
The singing birds pack up and fly away;
So never try to trick me with a kiss:
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.





Sylvia Plath

Suicide


Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest".

(...)

Some see suicide as a legitimate matter of personal choice and a human right (colloquially known as the right to die movement), and maintain that no one should be forced to suffer against their will, particularly from conditions such as incurable disease, mental illness, and old age that have no possibility of improvement. Proponents of this view reject the belief that suicide is always irrational, arguing instead that it can be a valid last resort for those enduring major pain or trauma. (...) A narrower segment of this group considers suicide something between a grave but condonable choice in some circumstances and a sacrosanct right for anyone (even a young and healthy person) who believes they have rationally and conscientiously come to the decision to end their own lives. (...)


in Wikipedia


"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

(Arthur Schopenhauer)




"The Way Out" or "Suicidal Ideation" by George Grie






Suicide Note

"You speak to me of narcissism but I reply that it is a matter of my life" - Artaud



"At this time let me somehow bequeath all the leftovers to my daughters and their daughters" - Anonymous



Better, despite the worms talking to the mare's hoof in the field; better, despite the season of young girls dropping their blood; better somehow to drop myself quickly into an old room. Better (someone said) not to be born and far better not to be born twice at thirteen where the boardinghouse, each year a bedroom, caught fire. Dear friend, I will have to sink with hundreds of others on a dumbwaiter into hell. I will be a light thing. I will enter death like someone's lost optical lens. Life is half enlarged. The fish and owls are fierce today. Life tilts backward and forward. Even the wasps cannot find my eyes. Yes, eyes that were immediate once. Eyes that have been truly awake, eyes that told the whole story— poor dumb animals. Eyes that were pierced, little nail heads, light blue gunshots. And once with a mouth like a cup, clay colored or blood colored, open like the breakwater for the lost ocean and open like the noose for the first head. Once upon a time my hunger was for Jesus. O my hunger! My hunger! Before he grew old he rode calmly into Jerusalem in search of death. This time I certainly do not ask for understanding and yet I hope everyone else will turn their heads when an unrehearsed fish jumps on the surface of Echo Lake; when moonlight, its bass note turned up loud, hurts some building in Boston, when the truly beautiful lie together. I think of this, surely, and would think of it far longer if I were not… if I were not at that old fire. I could admit that I am only a coward crying me me me and not mention the little gnats, the moths, forced by circumstance to suck on the electric bulb. But surely you know that everyone has a death, his own death, waiting for him. So I will go now without old age or disease, wildly but accurately, knowing my best route, carried by that toy donkey I rode all these years, never asking, “Where are we going?” We were riding (if I'd only known) to this. Dear friend, please do not think that I visualize guitars playing or my father arching his bone. I do not even expect my mother's mouth. I know that I have died before— once in November, once in June. How strange to choose June again, so concrete with its green breasts and bellies. Of course guitars will not play! The snakes will certainly not notice. New York City will not mind. At night the bats will beat on the trees, knowing it all, seeing what they sensed all day.



Anne Sexton

Still some more feelings and memories from the chest

Abro os olhos e não te vejo. Ponho-me à escuta e não te oiço. Estendo a mão e não te toco. Abro as cortinas e o sol não brilha. Saio para a chuva mas as gotas não me molham. Lanço a cara ao vento mas este não me afaga. Estendo o pé ao mar que abraça a areia mas este recusa-se a beijar-me os pés... Não vejo! Não oiço! Não sinto senão esta dor que me rasga o peito e dilacera a alma, esta faca que me corta ao meio e expõe a nu metade de mim! E eis que então, ao fechar os olhos tudo vejo, eis que oiço a tua voz, nítida, suave, embalando-me, eis que sinto o toque da tua pele, a carícia do teu olhar que me invade e enche e completa e seduz e embriaga e sacia... Eis que te sinto aqui, tão presente, com o chegar da lua e do cheiro das rosas nocturnas...

"A little bit of everything"

More from that chest...

(Photo by Dan Larino)





Esta noite quero pousar a minha cabeça numa almofada macia com fronha de cetim acabado de lavar. Adormecer nela os meus longos cabelos negros. As tuas mãos afagando-os com ternura. E o teu corpo encostado ao meu, aquecendo a noite fria. Quero que abras frascos de perfume e espalhes pelo quarto fragrâncias a café, canela e maresia. Quero que tragas num quadro a imagem de um mar de Inverno, que abraça toda a areia da praia e me molha os pés e dentro de um búzio me dês a ouvir o seu canto. Quero que ponhas a tocar Mozart ou Bach. Ou então aquela música da Mafalda Veiga que me lembra tanto de ti. Mas não te lembro eu sempre?! Esta noite queria voltar a pegar naquele cigarro e esvaziar-me da realidade, deixando-me embalar pelo sono e pelos sonhos...

Deprivation


Deprivation
Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.]
1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
(...)
Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.



"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
(Alfred Lord Tennyson)






I lost a World - the other day!


I lost a World - the other day!
Has Anybody found?
You'll know it by the Row of Stars
Around its forehead bound.

A Rich man—might not notice it—
Yet—to my frugal Eye,
Of more Esteem than Ducats—
Oh find it—Sir—for me!

Emily Dickinson

Loneliness / Saudades

Another one taken from an old chest full of memories:





Serenata

Permita que eu feche os meus olhos,

pois é muito longe e tão tarde!

Pensei que era apenas demora,

e cantando pus-me a esperar-te.


Permite que agora emudeça:

que me conforme em ser sozinha.

Há uma doce luz no silencio,

e a dor é de origem divina.


Permite que eu volte o meu rosto

para um céu maior que este mundo,

e aprenda a ser dócil no sonho

como as estrelas no seu rumo.


Cecília Meireles


Separation







separation
noun
1. the state of lacking unit
2. coming apart
3. the distance between things
4. sorting one thing from others
(...)
6. the space where a division or parting occurs
(...)
9. the act of dividing or disconnecting



WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University



"In a separation it is the one who is not really in love

who says the more tender things."

(Marcel Proust)






I Know I Have Been Happiest



I know I have been happiest at your side;
But what is done, is done, and all's to be.
And small the good, to linger dolefully-
Gayly it lived, and gallantly it died.
I will not make you songs of hearts denied,
And you, being man, would have no tears of me,
And should I offer you fidelity,
You'd be, I think, a little terrified.

Yet this the need of woman, this her curse:
To range her little gifts, and give, and give,
Because the throb of giving's sweet to bear.
To you, who never begged me vows or verse,
My gift shall be my absence, while I live;
But after that, my dear, I cannot swear.



by Dorothy Parker



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Memories (again and always)








«As palavras de um tipo que canta no rádio recordam-me de ti. São as horas que são e pensei em acordar-te. Apenas queria dar-te um beijo, mas resolvi acabar de escrever isto e ir-me deitar. Sei que lerás estas palavras ainda a tua manhã será jovem. Bom dia, meu amor.»








«Gostava de pensar os teus cabelos. Não sei o que andas a fazer ou tão pouco o que fazem os teus cabelos. aloirados. que gostava de pensar. Isso é. Hard to deal with. Gosto de ti. (...) Gosto dos teus [cabelos], enquanto gostares dos meus dedos nos teus [cabelos]».








«Gosto de andar descalço. Particularmente nesta altura do ano. Gosto de beijar a minha mulher. Particularmente nesta altura do ano. Gosto do crepúsculo. Particularmente nesta altura do ano. Gosto de muitas coisas e de outras também de que pouca gente ou ninguém gosta. Particularmente nesta altura do ano. Não é verdade? Afinal, não sou diferente de todos os outros.



Gosto do Inverno, de chuva e de frio e é certo e provavelmente isso faz de mim ligeiramente diferente de todos os outros ou se calhar até que não. Particularmente nesta altura do ano. Mas gosto mais ainda da Primavera. Do sol frio, das nuvens de manhã escondidas no café da minha rua, do arrefecer da noite na casa da minha mulher aos Anjos e dos pés descalços ao crepúsculo desta noite em que escrevo. Particularmente. (...)»





«– Vou Dar-lhe uma Rosa.
– Vais dar-lhe uma rosa? Essa agora, porquê?
– Porque ela me agrada.
– Agrada-te? E como é que sabes isso?
– Não te sei explicar. Sei que me agrada.
– Mas tu conhece-la? O que é que sabes acerca dela?
– Sei o que sei e o que sei chega para te dizer que me agrada.
– Não te percebo. Explica-me lá isso de maneira que eu entenda.
– Ela agrada-me porque sente, é esperta e gosta de criar. É bonita.
– Hmmmm... E não tens vergonha?
– Vergonha do quê?
– Ora, vergonha de lhe dares um rosa assim, aqui no meio do recreio, com os outros meninos e meninas a verem...
– Não, não tenho. O que eu tenho é medo.
– Tens medo? Tu? Do quê?
– Tenho medo de que não goste do que trago para lhe dar.
– Não tenhas medo, vai gostar, descansa.
– Achas mesmo, tens a certeza?
– Não acho, tenho mesmo a certeza. Só há uma coisa que estás a fazer mal.
– O que é? Diz-me!..
– Se ela é como eu penso que é, merece muito mais do que uma rosa. Merece mais e não é só com uma rosa que tu lhe vais agradar a ela...
– Sim. Tens toda a razão.
– E então, o que vais fazer?
– Olha, hoje vou dar-lhe uma rosa. Amanhã, se ela quiser, dou-lhe o Mundo.»
Words and photos taken from an old chest full of memories and feelings. Words and photos full of feelings. All the feelings...



















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Remembrance




Remembrance



Re*mem"brance\ (-brans), n. [OF. remembrance.]
1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
4. That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
5. Something to be remembered; counsel; admonition; instruction.
6. Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.



(syn.: See Memory)



Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.












"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the




remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can




have nothing so bright as the past."



(Julia Ward Howe)














I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead

I don't know if you're alive or dead.
Can you on earth be sought,
Or only when the sunsets fade
Be mourned serenely in my thought?

All is for you: the daily prayer,
The sleepless heat at night,
And of my verses, the white
Flock, and of my eyes, the blue fire.

No-one was more cherished, no-one tortured
Me more, not
Even the one who betrayed me to torture,
Not even the one who caressed me and forgot.


Anna Akhmatova




Destiny / Roads / Free Will



"A person often meets his destiny


on the road he took to avoid it."


(Jean de La Fontaine)





The Lone Trail


Ye who know the Lone Trail fain would follow it,
Though it lead to glory or the darkness of the pit.
Ye who take the Lone Trail, bid your love good-by;
The Lone Trail, the Lone Trail follow till you die.

The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried;
You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;
And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,
Yet you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.
And somehow you're sick of the highway, with its noise and its easy needs,
And you seek the risk of the by-way, and you reck not where it leads.
And sometimes it leads to the desert, and the togue swells out of the mouth,
And you stagger blind to the mirage, to die in the mocking drouth.
And sometimes it leads to the mountain, to the light of the lone camp-fire,
And you gnaw your belt in the anguish of hunger-goded desire.
And sometimes it leads to the Southland, to the swamp where the orchid glows,
And you rave to your grave with the fever, and they rob the corpse for its clothes.
And sometimes it leads to the Northland, and the scurvy softens your bones,
And your flesh dints in like putty, and you spit out your teeth like stones.
And sometimes it leads to a coral reef in the wash of a weedy sea,
And you sit and stare at the empty glare where the gulls wait greedily.
And sometimes it leads to an Arctic trail, and the snows where your torn feet freeze,
And you whittle away the useless clay, and crawl on your hands and knees.
Often it leads to the dead-pit; always it leads to pain;
By the bones of your brothers ye know it, but oh, to follow you're fain.
By your bones they will follow behind you, till the ways of the world are made plain.

Bid good-by to sweetheart, bid good-by to friend;
The Lone Trail, the Lone Trail follow to the end.
Tarry not, and fear not, chosen of the true;
Lover of the Lone Trail, the Lone Trail waits for you.


Robert Service







Photo by Wolfram Schubert, "Freedom"






Cântico Negro











"Vem por aqui" — dizem-me alguns com os olhos doces
Estendendo-me os braços, e seguros
De que seria bom que eu os ouvisse
Quando me dizem: "vem por aqui!"
Eu olho-os com olhos lassos,
(Há, nos olhos meus, ironias e cansaços)
E cruzo os braços,
E nunca vou por ali...
A minha glória é esta:
Criar desumanidades!
Não acompanhar ninguém.
— Que eu vivo com o mesmo sem-vontade
Com que rasguei o ventre à minha mãe
Não, não vou por aí! Só vou por onde
Me levam meus próprios passos...
Se ao que busco saber nenhum de vós responde
Por que me repetis: "vem por aqui!"?


Prefiro escorregar nos becos lamacentos,
Redemoinhar aos ventos,
Como farrapos, arrastar os pés sangrentos,
A ir por aí...
Se vim ao mundo, foi
Só para desflorar florestas virgens,
E desenhar meus próprios pés na areia inexplorada!
O mais que faço não vale nada.


Como, pois, sereis vós
Que me dareis impulsos, ferramentas e coragem
Para eu derrubar os meus obstáculos?...
Corre, nas vossas veias, sangue velho dos avós,
E vós amais o que é fácil!
Eu amo o Longe e a Miragem,
Amo os abismos, as torrentes, os desertos...


Ide! Tendes estradas,
Tendes jardins, tendes canteiros,
Tendes pátria, tendes tetos,
E tendes regras, e tratados, e filósofos, e sábios...
Eu tenho a minha Loucura !
Levanto-a, como um facho, a arder na noite escura,
E sinto espuma, e sangue, e cânticos nos lábios...
Deus e o Diabo é que guiam, mais ninguém!
Todos tiveram pai, todos tiveram mãe;
Mas eu, que nunca principio nem acabo,
Nasci do amor que há entre Deus e o Diabo.


Ah, que ninguém me dê piedosas intenções,
Ninguém me peça definições!
Ninguém me diga: "vem por aqui"!
A minha vida é um vendaval que se soltou,
É uma onda que se alevantou,
É um átomo a mais que se animou...
Não sei por onde vou,
Não sei para onde vou
Sei que não vou por aí!

José Régio



Mourning

mourning
Noun
1. sorrow or grief, esp. over a death
2. the conventional symbols of grief for a death, such as the wearing of black
3. the period of time during which a death is officially mourned
Adjective
of or relating to mourning

Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006



"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

(Robert Browning)







Killing The Love

I am the love killer,
I am murdering the music we thought so special,
that blazed between us, over and over.
I am murdering me, where I kneeled at your kiss.
I am pushing knives through the hands
that created two into one.
Our hands do not bleed at this,
they lie still in their dishonor.
I am taking the boats of our beds
and swamping them, letting them cough on the sea
and choke on it and go down into nothing.
I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.
The Camp we directed?
I have gassed the campers.

Now I am alone with the dead,
flying off bridges,
hurling myself like a beer can into the wastebasket.
I am flying like a single red rose,
leaving a jet stream
of solitude
and yet I feel nothing,
though I fly and hurl,
my insides are empty
and my face is as blank as a wall.

Shall I call the funeral director?
He could put our two bodies into one pink casket,
those bodies from before,
and someone might send flowers,
and someone might come to mourn
and it would be in the obits,
and people would know that something died,
is no more, speaks no more, won't even
drive a car again and all of that.

When a life is over,
the one you were living for,
where do you go?

I'll work nights.
I'll dance in the city.
I'll wear red for a burning.
I'll look at the Charles very carefully,
weraing its long legs of neon.
And the cars will go by.
The cars will go by.
And there'll be no scream
from the lady in the red dress
dancing on her own Ellis Island,
who turns in circles,
dancing alone
as the cars go by.


Anne Sexton


Parting


parting
noun
1.
the act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow" [syn: farewell]
(...)


WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."

(George Eliot)


When We Two Parted

When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted,
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.

The dew of the morning
Sank chill on my brow—
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.

They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me—
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well:—
Long, long shall I rue thee
Too deeply to tell.

In secret we met—
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?—
With silence and tears.


Lord Byron


Insobriety


Insobriety
n.
Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.
in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.





“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
(Benjamin Franklin)





Ode To Wine

Day-colored wine,
night-colored wine,
wine with purple feet
or wine with topaz blood,
wine,
starry child
of earth,
wine, smooth
as a golden sword,
soft
as lascivious velvet,
wine, spiral-seashelled
and full of wonder,
amorous,
marine;
never has one goblet contained you,
one song, one man,
you are choral, gregarious,
at the least, you must be shared.
At times
you feed on mortal
memories;
your wave carries us
from tomb to tomb,
stonecutter of icy sepulchers,
and we weep
transitory tears;
your
glorious
spring dress
is different,
blood rises through the shoots,
wind incites the day,
nothing is left
of your immutable soul.
Wine
stirs the spring, happiness
bursts through the earth like a plant,
walls crumble,
and rocky cliffs,
chasms close,
as song is born.
A jug of wine, and thou beside me
in the wilderness,
sang the ancient poet.
Let the wine pitcher
add to the kiss of love its own.



My darling, suddenly
the line of your hip
becomes the brimming curve
of the wine goblet,
your breast is the grape cluster,
your nipples are the grapes,
the gleam of spirits lights your hair,
and your navel is a chaste seal
stamped on the vessel of your belly,
your love an inexhaustible
cascade of wine,
light that illuminates my senses,
the earthly splendor of life.



But you are more than love,
the fiery kiss,
the heat of fire,
more than the wine of life;
you are
the community of man,
translucency,
chorus of discipline,
abundance of flowers.
I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.
Drink it,
and remember in every
drop of gold,
in every topaz glass,
in every purple ladle,
that autumn labored
to fill the vessel with wine;
and in the ritual of his office,
let the simple man remember
to think of the soil and of his duty,
to propagate the canticle of the wine.
Pablo Neruda



Just because...



one's not half two. It's two are halves of one:



one's not half two. It's two are halves of one:
which halves reintegrating,shall occur
no death and any quantity;but than
all numerable mosts the actual more
minds ignorant of stern miraculous
this every truth-beware of heartless them
(given the scalpel,they dissect a kiss;
or,sold the reason,they undream a dream)
one is the song which fiends and angels sing:
all murdering lies by mortals told make two.
Let liars wilt,repaying life they're loaned;
we(by a gift called dying born)must grow
deep in dark least ourselves remembering
love only rides his year.
All lose,whole find
e.e. cummings

Manumission



Noun
1.
manumission - the formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the manumission of the slaves"
freeing, liberation, release - the act of liberating someone or something


Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.


“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.”
(Richard Bach)

*Photo by Helder Barreiros







If Hands Could Free You, Heart

If hands could free you, heart,
Where would you fly?
Far, beyond every part
Of earth this running sky
Makes desolate? Would you cross
City and hill and sea,
If hands could set you free?

I would not lift the latch;
For I could run
Through fields, pit-valleys, catch
All beauty under the sun--
Still end in loss:
I should find no bent arm, no bed
To rest my head.

Philip Larkin



Materialism

ma·te·ri·al·ism

n.
1. Philosophy The theory that physical matter is the only reality and that everything, including thought, feeling, mind, and will, can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena.
2. The theory or attitude that physical well-being and worldly possessions constitute the greatest good and highest value in life.
3. A great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.


in the free dictionary





"Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty."
(Leo Rosten)




*Photo by Lucia Holm



Money

Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me:
'Why do you let me lie here wastefully?
I am all you never had of goods and sex,
You could get them still by writing a few cheques.'

So I look at others, what they do with theirs:
They certainly don't keep it upstairs.
By now they've a second house and car and wife:
Clearly money has something to do with life

- In fact, they've a lot in common, if you enquire:
You can't put off being young until you retire,
And however you bank your screw, the money you save
Won't in the end buy you more than a shave.

I listen to money singing. It's like looking down
From long French windows at a provincial town,
The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad
In the evening sun. It is intensely sad.


Philip Larkin



Elation




Definição de elation na Web em Inglês:
an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
a feeling of joy and pride
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elated - exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited"
elated - full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart"
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elating - making lively and joyful
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elated - Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased
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Mood and affect disorder. Joy and optimism; overconfidence; increased motor activity.
«You see things; and you say, 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"»
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1

*Photo by Oleksiy Maksymenko




A Dream Within A Dream



Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe



Evasion


In the Objectivist philosophy, and in theories of psychology whose authors are influenced by that philosophy, evasion is the refusal to think about a specific subject. Unlike a person who is ignorant (lacks knowledge about a subject), a person who evades a subject is not only ignorant but engages in an active, deliberate mental process of avoiding knowledge and clarity. Instead, the person purposefully attempts to remain ignorant or confused about the subject.
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Sair de casa. Rodar a chave na fechadura três vezes e tentar deixar os pensamentos atrás da porta. Entrar no carro. Lançar-me à estrada de vidros abertos... Sentir os cabelos acaraciados pelo vento e a liberdade...

Em Mafra, procurar o refúgio do templo.

Observar a beleza do que é feito com o esforço e o sacrifício dos homens, em prole de outras loucuras terrenas e da ambição desmedida dos homens da Igreja, que se dizem humildes e abnegados.


Depois, sentar-me numa esplanada convidativa. Sentir-me bem recebida por um empregado de mesa que estudou bem a arte de servir os outros, que nos faz sentir bem connosco próprios ao nos receber com um sorriso e nos desejar uma boa tarde. Aí permanecer, esquecida no tempo, na companhia de um bom livro e ao som de uma melodiosa ópera.








Correr as praias da Ericeira, observando as esplanadas de surfistas e as pick-ups com pranchas.
Ficar ali, a sentir o vento, a observar o mar, numa despedida de mim mesma ao pôr-do-sol.
Evadir-me...
... Amanhã é outro dia, afinal.

*photos by:

Guilherme Limas, "Tempo Parado";

Manuela Viola, "Amanhã será outro dia"

Escape is such a thankful Word

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Escape is such a thankful Word
I often in the Night
Consider it unto myself
No spectacle in sight

Escape—it is the Basket
In which the Heart is caught
When down some awful Battlement
The rest of Life is dropt—

'Tis not to sight the savior—
It is to be the saved—
And that is why I lay my Head
Upon this trusty word—

Emily Dickinson

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

(T. S. Eliot)