Sweet Bird of Youth?
What do we do with young people?

We are giving them messages like “ go on your bone-idle life because your aims are still a long way off”, “ go on your childhood, because adulthood is in distance”, “bind your trade mark trainers, your skateboard, your cap on not quite straight and –you know the song- don´t worry, be happy”, “all of your mates do the same”.

Pianoforte

I´m learning to read and write and I like to do it on my own. All help is very welcome

Fran, that night the vicar´s wife couldn´t sleep; I asked her if she wanted anything to eat or drink and if she wanted me to do summat.

Cadeia classificada monumento nacional

Settled in the south of Portugal since my retirement I largely enjoy this corner. After more than forty years putting up with bigwigs I deserve a better weather, better landscape and better hour hand.

Sons that father would have had

I´m learning to read and write and I like to do it on my own. All help is very welcome

     Fran,

my father knew me extraordinarily. I still remember when in one occasion I said him that my sister was sorting or searching a sheep. He stared at me and suddenly slapped me without saying a word. He knew I was lying, yet it was a lie that was not to my profit. I did it cause she asked me to do it.

Bankiticians

   According to Yuval N. Harari in his book Homo Deus. A brief History of Tomorrow (p.64), nobody can predict how the global economy will be in ten years´ time.