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a very short story

Mick Jagger hires Andy Warhol

Eight ways to kill an idea

(original work by Scott Campbell)

self pity

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

-D.H.Lawrence

it's real

small world...

or big world. it amazes me when I think of my family's very diverse background. my roots are literally spread around in three continents, as far as I know (and I don't know much farther back). see, my paternal grandparents: he was Russian, she was Polish. my maternal grandparents: he was Greek, she was Egyptian. I'm a Brazilian, living in the U.S. (currently) & I have cousins, aunts and uncles living in Canada, Chile, France, Israel, Italy and United States. We are all at least bilingual, our looks diverse - some of us are dark skinned, some of us white; some of us blond, even red haired, most of us dark with dark eyes, a couple of green eyed and one blue eyed kid. we are the product of only one religion, Jewish, but today the other half is Catholic and the kids mixed with the choice to choose their own religion when they want to. many accents, many places to stay when we travel, and one chosen country in the end - Brasil - where everybody and everything came together as one, big, happy, great family.

--success--

insanity week

dear nellie

a drinking song

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.
-w.b.yeats

dreams 101

---

I thank God for most this
amazing
day; for the leaping greenly
spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything
which is natural, which is
infinite, which is yes.
-Yes -- e. e. cummings

never forget

Your presence is a present to the world.
You're unique and one of a kind.
Your life can be what you want it to be.
Take the days, just one at a time.
Count your blessings, not your troubles.
You'll make it through, whatever comes along.
Within you are so many answers.
Understand, have courage, be strong.
Don't put limits on yourself.
So many dreams are waiting to be realized.
Decisions are too important to leave to chance.
Reach for your peak, your goal and your prize.
Nothing wastes more energy than worrying.
The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it gets.
Don't take things too seriously.
Live a life of serenity, not a life of regrets.
Remember that a little love goes a long way.
Remember that a lot . . . goes forever.
Remember that friendship is a wise investment.
Life's treasures are people . . . together.
Realize that it's never too late.
Do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Have health, hope and happiness.
Take the time to wish upon a star.
And don't ever forget . . .
For even a day . . .
How very special you are.

Author Unknown

Aldous Huxley from Music At Night, 1931

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

sky light

“I just told you my dreams and you made me see that I could walk into the sun and I could still be me and now I can't deny nothing lasts forever.”

This Is What You Shall Do:

Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants... have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

(Walt Whitman)

al(l) one

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it’s too late
and there’s nothing worse
than
too late.

- Bukowski

sai

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
— Mahatma Gandhi

daydreaming

or makers of dreams, dreamers of music

memórias de uma noite insone

Cansa Sentir Quando se Pensa

Cansa sentir quando se pensa.
No ar da noite a madrugar
Há uma solidão imensa
Que tem por corpo o frio do ar.
Neste momento insone e triste
Em que não sei quem hei de ser,
Pesa-me o informe real que existe
Na noite antes de amanhecer.

Tudo isto me parece tudo.
E é uma noite a ter um fim
Um negro astral silêncio surdo
E não poder viver assim.

(Tudo isto me parece tudo.
Mas noite, frio, negror sem fim,
Mundo mudo, silêncio mudo -
Ah, nada é isto, nada é assim!)

- Fernando Pessoa

"lembra o tempo
em que você sentia

e sentir
era a forma
mais sábia de saber

e você nem sabia?”

(Alice Ruiz)

as a matter of fact...

...Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can’t hold back.(O Beijo-Gerchman)

Saudades Sem Fim

Ele vem! Meu irmão querido, chega aqui dia 3 de novembro junto com meu pai, vão passar 10 dias comigo. (nessa foto, a gente o meu restaurante favorito em Búzios, o Bar do Zé).

Full of Grace

One more star in the barn that I work for: House of Grace.
(Thoroughbred Times Article)- - Magdalena Racing’s House of Grace remained unbeaten in two career starts on Thursday as she made a determined bid in the stretch and lunged at the wire to capture the $150,000 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine Stakes on the main track at Keeneland Race Course. Moved from the turf course because of heavy overnight rains, the bay Limehouse filly covered 1 1/16 miles on the synthetic Polytrack surface in 1:44.32 to win by a nose over Smart Seattle. The race originally was scheduled to be a Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win and You’re In” race for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, but the automatic bid was not in effect when the race was taken off the turf.
Racing along the rail early, House of Grace angled out in the stretch under jockey Mike Luzzi and wore down Smart Seattle for the narrow victory. Hatheer, the 2.20-to-1 favorite in the field of nine, finished another 3¼ lengths back in third.
House of Grace won her only previous start, a 1 1/16-mile turf race at Saratoga Race Course in August. Trainer Ken McPeek said House of Grace “definitely” will run in the Breeders’ Cup. “We’d like to get back to the grass,” McPeek said. “I think she’s better on the turf. It’s just a great situation.”

I See Fire, I See Rain

Louder than Words

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
-Dorothy Day

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
-Marcel Pagnol

Noble's Promise - The First Grade One Win That I Will Never Forget

Noble's Promise great win at Keeneland's Dixiana Breeders' Futurity Stakes this Saturday marked the first grade 1 win of a horse from the racehorse operation I'm working for since I arrived here in April (the trainer I work for already won lots of Grade 1 races). For me only, it's Gr.1 number one. This makes it all so exciting considering what's coming up - the Breeders' Cup Festival at Santa Anita, California, in November. We may have up to 4 or 5 runners that week out West, and I'm already looking so forward to it. Oh, how I LOVE HORSE RACING! See Thoroughbred Time's article about Noble's victory here. So proud!

whatdayisthisbesidesthedayyouwent

Maybe different but remember
Winters warm where you and i
Kissing whiskey by the fire
With the snow outside
And when the summer comes
In the river
Swims at midnight
Shiver cold
Touch the bottom
You and I
With muddy toes

Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you did

Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing us
It was good good love
You used to laugh under the covers
Maybe not so often now
But the way I used to laugh with you
Was loud and hard

So what to do
With the rest of the day's afternoon hey
Isn't it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that i should

That I coulda done

Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be
You and me
I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you left me
What day is this
Besides the day you went

(Stay or Leave - Dave Matthews)

just for today

See the STAR

Here in the U.S. we have Rachel Alexandra. In Europe, there is the spectacular SEA THE STARS, the monster horse out of Cape Cross by the monster mare Urban Sea, herself winner of the Arc. Here's The Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe 2009 Edition with the sensational victory of the star of all stars.

foi

Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you apart.
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)