Nottingham Hill Carnival, August 24-25/2008

( see pages: “London, UK-Nottingham Hill” above) and the video.

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health

If your usual exercise program entails a predictable trip to the gym or weight room, try incorporating something different – like running by the ocean or a spinning class.

Use your voice: singing out loud in the car or the shower is a good aerobic release.

Your demeanor shouldn’t bottle up your kundalini energies – they cry to be released!

Cogliam d’amor la rosa

Cogliam d’amor la rosa: amiamo or quando esser si puote riamato amando.

Torquato Tasso

vai com o teu coração

seja qual for a direcção que vás, vai com todo o teu coração

confúcio

Libertà ch’è sì cara

Libertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara, come sa chi per lei vita rifiuta.

dante

D.giovanni

tate gallery

na entrada interior.

cerca de 3 anos atrás.

os visitantes podiam deitar-se no chão e verem-se refletidos no tecto espelhado.

na parede do fundo, de frente para a entrada erguia-se um imenso ’sol’ .

Conquista-te a ti mesmo

Conquista-te a ti mesmo, não ao mundo.

Renée Descartes

a base das paixões

… human beings who miss their vocation are unhappy; they suffer, and suffering gives birth to the bitterness of ill-will. In fact, before an old maid blames herself for her isolation she blames others, and there is but one step between reproach and the desire for revenge.
But more than this, the ill grace and want of charm noticeable in these women are the necessary result of their lives. Never having felt a desire to please, elegance and the refinements of good taste are foreign to them. They see only themselves in themselves. This instinct brings them, unconsciously, to choose the things that are most convenient to themselves, at the sacrifice of those which might be more agreeable to others. Without rendering account to their own minds …

from ” The Vicar of Tours”  by Honore de Balzac:

deuses, homens e poetas

from ” Ion “ by  Plato

… not about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes which all other poets handle? Is not war his great argument? and does he not speak of human society and of intercourse of men, good and bad, skilled and unskilled, and of the gods conversing with one another and with mankind, and about what happens in heaven and in the world below, and the generations of gods and heroes? Are not these the themes of which Homer sings?
ION: Very true, Socrates.
SOCRATES: And do not the other poets sing of the same?
ION: Yes, Socrates; but not in the same way as Homer.
SOCRATES: What, in a worse way?