Happiness

"Não adianta sonhar com o que é feito apenas de fantasia e querer aspirar ao impossível. A felicidade é a aceitação do que se é e se pode ser." 

MÃE, Valter Hugo. O filho de mil homens. São Paulo, Cosac Naify, p. 77

This is so hypnotic

How about you'll be me and I'll be you and we just leave it where we found it?

Thank you, Pearl Jam

It was amazing, as always.

One of the best things about this band is the love for them shared between me, my mom and my brother. It's a family bond.

Bless me with a bit of good luck, Saint Patrick

Today and everyday
Amem.

Brazilian folklore

I think I'm one of them ;)

They don't like us

Photo from this album: (credit Amazon Watch) 

"In 2016, 54 land rights defenders were killed in Brazil, the highest since 2003. Deforestation rates in 2016 were up 29 percent. Moreover, the administration of President Michel Temer is pushing to roll back indigenous rights and environmental protections in order to open the Amazon rainforest to corporate interest, from largescale hydroelectric dams and waterways, to massive agribusiness projects. Justice Minister Osmer Serraglio is one of the leading proponent of this rights rollback and the original sponsor of a proposal to amend the constitution to severely limit indigenous land titles, past and future."  (From Amazon Watch press release for the Global Earth Day Mobilisation)

TAKE ACTION: Protect the Amazon and the World's Climate – Hands Off Indigenous Land Rights!

It should be that easy!

20 de novembro

Só o fato deste dia não ser uma unanimidade como feriado a todos os estados brasileiros já exemplifica o desinteresse de conferir legitimidade política à questão. Mas mesmo onde a data é reconhecida, talvez não passe disso que a imagem diz.

Definitely watching this weekend

São Paulo, 16ºC

St Patrick's Day

Photo: http://trendphotos.org/

International Women's Day

Las Dos Fridas, by Frida Kahlo

I know this painting is about her broken marriage, but we can use the image to go further on the idea of being torn, on how being a woman is not one whole defined experience. If it ever was once, culture and society are making more and more difficult for us to reunite our sense of integrity again.

Frost/Bernal

All the 5 of you that come here frequently know I'm a little obsessed. 
So, continuing the GGB Week, I was very surprised to discover that this was the last interview of David Frost. 
Since I'm terrified about the idea of "the end" of anything, it would be extremely touching to me if I were the last interviewed of someone, even more of someone with the magnitude of Frost.  
I hope you enjoy it.

My sweet melancholia

The last 12 months according to last.fm

Top 5 - Great films that leave you in deep depression

Requiem for a dream (2000)

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when their addictions become stronger.

Incendies (2010)

Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history, and fulfill their mother's last wishes.

Irreversible (2002)

A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything.








Sherrybaby (2006)

Sherry Swanson discovers that coming back to the world she left behind is far more difficult than she had planned.








Melancholia (2011)

On the night of her wedding, Justine is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life.

(All descriptions are from IMDb, some with adaptations. See more in each title's link ) 

Feeling Irish?

I'm going out, kids. Please, behave!

30 years of Blue Monday(s)

The importance of learning by mistakes

I'm really impressed by the fact that some students I have, college students I must say, don't want to face the possibility of failure, writing papers or projects. I don't know what makes them so afraid of critique. Every proposal of research or bibliographical analysis turns into a huge monster, and people put a lot of problems before even starting the task. 
It takes a lot to go beyond the obvious, to express your opinion and to produce results, to make your contribution to Science. 
Yes, your work will not always be successful. You may go the wrong way during the writing process and will have to start over, but that's how you learn. I'm passing through the same thing and I've been here at least other 2 times before. Still doesn't mean I can get it easily. It will always demand (more and more) work!
However, as hard and unsure as it looks to face the problem and the obligation of passing through it, that's how you reach the autonomy of your own learning process.
Be brave and go for it!

Carnaval?

VETO + a pile of books + rain + food = a perfect Carnaval 
And maybe a chapter for my thesis. Fingers crossed.