Awesome!!

Each and every one of us is Awesome. If you doubt it, you can start by thinking in all those things that you thought you couldn’t do. In those moments when you thought you wouldn’t be able to go through the day. Those nights of pain induced restlessness. Those situations that were pure living and breathing hell.

And after that? Do think on the day after. After you fall and started to pick yourself up. After being in so much pain that healing is the only way to go. When overwhelmed by something that you became open to new realities. After being swamped in the mud hole and climbed back up. read more

Books by the dozen: “Fallen” de Lauren Kate

Ainda não o terminei, mas já não falta muito… Simples, intrigante, emocionante e envolvente. Aconselho, antes mesmo do terminar.

E esta capa está linda! (Sim, tenho um fraquinho pelo ambiente gótico… Oh well!) read more

Erros?! Check! Corrigir?! Check! Errr… still checking

Erros-! Check! Corrigir-! Check! Errr… still checking

Aqui estou eu, às voltas com a revisão do meu primeiro livro, e eis que descobri recentemente que existem umas coisas chamadas checklists, e que estas são muito úteis na revisão de texto.

Sim. Já sei que cheguei atrasada! Mas nunca é tarde para aprender. read more

Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley’s version

Well I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do ya?
Well it goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Well Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
And she broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah read more

Coral de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

A poesia deve ser lida devagar. Cada palavra deve ser apreciada. Os seus significados devem ser procurados. Os sentimentos que nos despertam devem ser analisados. Devemos trazer para dentro de nós as mensagens “escondidas” atrás de cada expressão, atrás de cada conjunto de palavras.

Um poema é uma história, contada através duma forma definida, apreciada por aquilo que se pretende que ela seja. Um poema diz-nos muito, especialmente àqueles que o ouvem falar. read more