organic!

Space is required to let libraries breathe.

Like accordions, they enlarge and compress whenever necessary... Much more movement than I could imagine! (for a quiet tranquil place!)

Tellingly, books demand brawn (not just brain!). Good agility, touch and equilibrium also help to handle them.

Enough effort! Surprisingly good. Alive...

all is not lost

Each time that I watch some movie as The Corporation, among others (more or less political... doesn't matter!), I feel depressed. Serious! 

It"s not to say that I can't do anything to change it, but I really wonder myself about have children, for example... Why bring them to this dangerous world, where values are upside down (like money being more important than people)?

It seems that there is no solution, no future, no way... F*ck! 

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notwithstanding...

Of course if everybody who is unsatisfied does small (but important) acts in their own daily lifes, all of us, together, we can change something! By the way, we are the majority - 99% of the population(!)... exactly who suffers the most severe consequences of the capitalist system. Its not something we should disdain! In our actual situation, we can even say that its not worth doing nothing about that, just ignoring we have the most powerful power in our hands. And we do have... but only while united - refer to water privatization in Bolivia and its consequences.

Stopping drink Coke and eating at McDonald's (both with some difficulty, ok... but it's possible!), spurning Walmart specials, not buying at Zaara or using Nike, for example, I can do it. And these two latter, I've been doing yet for a long time... since I knew atrocities about them. Furthermore, recycling, not lying or betray people (including not cheating on my husband, for sure), and MAINLY voting in a good way, giving my vote for candidates who I think may be good to govern... yes, finally, I thing I've done my part! (phew!)

I sincerely DO NOT want my kids seeing me drinking coke, eating many McDonald's often.. or worse: taking me supporting psycho corporate bodies as a normal thing. After all, there are some standards that must be both explained and taught at home, since young. This is the minimum we can do not to leave wrong standards be got as the right ones. This is a matter of choice, but just when you have enough knowledge to do it by yourself, with no doubts.
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light-hearted
 

Today, in the 236th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in the USA, the international known "Fourth of July" (which I really don't care about!), I would like to proclaim myself independent too.

No, I'm not a slave (of my work, at least, not anymore...!), and I'm not even a sad married woman... No, I DO NOT feel my life miserable, NOT AT ALL - and I'm a (still) happily married! However, I just want to be more free than I am right now. 

It's a subtle thing... I want to feel the lightness of life. Surprising, this is one of the most difficult feelings for me, to dabble in. Free mind, free spirit, no worries, no regrets.

marching

Although I' haven't totally understood yet their cause, I'm convinced that Zombie Walk is an interesting movement. 

(Maybe also influenced by Occupy Montreal) Many people went downtown yesterday. They attended the parade with weird costumes and so much make-up. Big style!

Cool! (or « bizarre! »)

tico e teco

(ainda a ver com fumaça...)

Uma coisa é fato: viver em Amsterdam é um exercício constante e diário à memória. Atire a primeira pedra quem já passou por aqui e nunca esqueceu alguma coisa, e teve que voltar aonde estava, entrar, tirar o excesso de roupa (casaco, luva, manta, gorro), subir MUITAS escadas, pegar o que esqueceu e então refazer as ações e o caminho inverso antes percorrido. Ufa... (fico exausta só de lembrar!) Mas confesso que me acostumei e até gostei de TAMANHO desafio.

Não recordar de algo faz a gente se movimentar, correr, ficar magrinho. Cansa. Qual a solução? Exercitar os neurônios para que não tenhamos de repetir mil vezes as mesmas ações. Friso que TUDO é um processo vagaroso, uma vez que é TANTA roupa para vestir, cuidados a tomar com a pele, lábios, cabelos... À menor desatenção, perde-se tempo. Mesmo os pequenos blackouts são mal vistos e quistos, portanto. Organizar-se é o melhor canal. Para alguns, escrever/anotar pode ajudar; a mim, conduziu a pauta do que lêem por esses dias. E, por vezes, até o que não vem à mente pode dar pano pra manga... A mula ruge em qualquer estado, mas quero um desconto, vai?!

Considerem também que é informação DEMAIS junta, reunida. Somos turistas de primeira viagem, encantadas com tudo e com todos, soltas que nem pinto no lixo, querendo aproveitar CADA detalhe. E assim o foco se esvai, claro... E fora os detalhes que nem mencionei, que colaboram para uma maior sensibilidade, uma percepção e reflexão mais lentas e complexas de tudo o que nos rodeia, permeia, e do que ainda está por vir até (opa, mas aí já é sexto sentido. Me confundi! Distraída... já sabe ;)

Halterofilismo neles! Vamos lá: um, dois, um, dois... Keep moving. Green go, green go! "Um, dois, três, quatro, quatro, três, dois, um... ôoooh, ôoooh..."