pour toujours

Oui, j'y crois!

fiftieth girls

Last year, it was announced that Mafalda would be turning 50 years old. An error. It will happen next year. Meanwhile, Mônica just turned 50 on 3rd March.

With no rivality (in this case), both represent their countries, Argentine and Brazil. However, Mafalda was braver, politic. Mônica was only one, when a dictatorial censorship settled down there... Maybe it could have assuaged her stories content, besides assuring her long life in newsstands, while Mafalda's publications ended in 1973 -  when she was age of nine, seven of them passed under the military dictatorship.

Five years ago, without any interruptions, the little toothy Brazilian grew up... Thus, nowadays there is also a teen version of her and and her gang. I don't know, though, if it was a good maturation changing its style for Manga...

I'm old school. I believe that we should not mess with a winning formula. Yet at the same time I recognize that youth has molted. Well, let's see... At least, they can help against bullying due to so much peculiarity in its characters.

for every thing there is a season

When we are in our twenties, we love to be always surrounded by friends, to share everything with... even our room, the apartment, our entire lives and home. However, growing up, things change. Mates too. 

Privicy is required, then. Being in forties, in couple, married, with a family formed, it's not the ideal live in some kind of tree house, accomodated like in a camping, as teenagers, in an eternal immature party(life). 

Time passes... Ok, unless you are an indian, a hippie, a member of alternative communities, a junkie, or if you are VERY broken to have autonomy, you are not going to agree. It's nonsense, com'on!

Helloooo! Welcome to adult normal life. 

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Divorced, with kids, as showed in La Galère (a big house divided by four women and their children), I sincerely suspect that it doesn't work anyway... After all, in fiction everything looks great.

Maybe, in the seventies, in a place as Les Résidences Soleil, community life might be a coherent option.

gorgeous silver

Once, I asked my mother why she had her hair dyed. Then, I suggested her to leave it natural, grey. Finally, she said to do that with my own hair, by myself, when graying start on me.

Not at that moment, but, now, I undertand her being on the defensive. It's a delicate situation for many women witnessing their hair lose colour; thus, being obligate to dye hair constantly. Many, in fact, the majority, opt for keeping their young hues artificially.

Alternatively, I honestly feel that ladies as Françoise Hardy, Carmen Dell’Orefice, Jamie Lee Curtis, Helen Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave, and last but not least, Meryl Streep (as Miranda Priestly, in The Devil Wears Prada), are glamorous in the way they are: both old and chic.

Their look, a choise, despite thousands of advertisings selling hair dye, as I see it, means a victory, an embrace of the natural changes, an acceptance of lifecycle. Without a doubt, it's an audacious one.

Furthermore, of course, having beautiful gray hair also requires special cares - expensive too! Olden with vanity, a challenge!

Mine, in a few years. Decided!

not to overlook

Europe situation is not good. Not at all! After Greece, now, it's the time of Spain population manifesting againt government austerity. On the top of that, they are doing it very well!

Media has noticed many anti-cuts protests. I like that... People carrying out their role (maybe the most relevant of all as a nation): citizenship.

That's something Brazilians should learn: how to complain their rights, after accomplish all obligations while society. After all, there are issues more fundamental then soccer or carnival.

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 partisans

I simply dont't know how, or why, but the fact is that my blog has many views in Russia. Yes: in RUSSIA. More than the double of other countries... Wow! What a surprise!

Firstly, I don't know people from there, except for an ex collegue of French classes in Dawson College. I doubt, though, he is checking it more than once a day... Anyway, alone, it's not enough.

Then, I start to suppose they are probably interested in my contend, once I'm not really a USA friend, and, in the same way, I'm a red sympathizer. Nevertheless, I frankly think it's not the case... not nowadays. Not anymore. Moreover, I'm not categorically important, as a mere blogger of particular ideas I am.

Lastly, apart from the fact that I haven't posted anithing about the recent episode of Pussy Riot imprisonment, or even about Putin - cases of corruption, protests, elections, uncertainty of his current mandate etc., I didn't do much effort to be in contact with this target... So, I sincerely have some reservations about. Well, some kind of anarchism might is on the air... Why not?!  (Incidentally, I repent this fault. Sorry for this omission.)

On the other hand, I understand the reasons of Brazil, Canada and even Germany and South Korea being in the list alike.

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aging

Among many events, I own up about my worries... Maybe they are accelerating hair graying on me.

Whereas I turned 30 years old, I found some white long whiskers hidden on back of my head. Though, they weren't there before!

No, it is not a old wives' tale... It's stress!