Every single day

He´s carefully and meticulously getting dressed. Getting disguised into what people expect of him, into what he used to be. And then he takes a look and tells his reflection in the mirror: "Just get through with the God damn day". And we know it´s not just that particular day. It´s every single day.

Colin Firth in A single man.

Morning Sun

Edward Hopper, Morning Sun (1952), Columbus Museum of Art

"...The sun beholds her nakedness,
but it cannot hold her in its arms.
It cannot kiss her tightened lips
and force its golden tongue
to free her inner primal scream."

Bill Alberti on this painting.

Leaving Tangier

Leaving Tangier is a novel by moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun. And although I bought the book because it´s a story about illegal immigration, hope, deception, disillusionment, this is the sentence that spoke to me the most:

"...On the trip home they barely spoke, wrapped in a fine fatigue and completely absorbed in their sense of each other."

This is just beautiful to read; and when it happens too.

Pororoca

"Pororoca is a natural phenomenon caused by the meeting of river and sea water... It can uproot trees and alter the course of rivers, but it is also a fragile process resulting from a delicate balance of natural factors. Pororoca is a meeting of counter currents. It forms waves and alters shorelines, creating noise and calm. It drags, mixes, shocks and invades."

There is no music in this choreography by brazilian Lia Rodrigues. Just the sound of bodies colliding, the dancers´ fast breathing, shouts, cries... It´s tender and violent, it´synchronized and fluid, it´s loud, but there are silences that enhance all these feelings and sensations. It was pororoca.

Pino Maniaci

Here´s another very special person. Pino Maniaci, the unlicensed journalist who runs Telejato, an almost family-run TV station near Palermo, that doesn´t give a break to the Mafia. I discovered him by chance one night, watching BBC World. He´s small, very thin, he smokes constantly. He does what he feels he has to do and he doesn´t allow fear to limit his horizon. His, his two children´s and many other people´s, whom he inspires to say: "Siamo tutti Pino Maniaci".

40

"The November issue of Wallpaper gives you 40 fabulous reasons to stay exactly where you are in 10 territories around the globe. Or 360 reasons to pack your bags and head elsewhere."
Source: www.wallpaper.com

I say it´s a beautiful number. And it shoudn´t be blamed for anything. I am "heading elsewhere", of course, as it would be expected of me...

Cidinha Campos

I saw this video today. I was left speechless, in awe of this amazing woman who denounced corruption in brazilian parliament and accused her colleagues for covering it, living with it, enjoying it. Not everybody will understand her words, but everybody will understand her spirit.