Thursday, 2 May 2019


     
Moroccan women in the strawberry fields

     It is born from a humble plant that you have to help to get up by putting some suspenders —at least that's how dad used to grow them in the sunniest corner of our farm— to take a little height and ventilate its tendrils and leaves. It is a delicious food.

Tuesday, 23 April 2019


Other circles

     Dear Fran,
     Today I have realized how little we value the people around us; that are our neighbours and whom we crossed the street for years and years with and that, suddenly, one day we miss.

Sunday, 14 April 2019


Art. 58-8, terror

Gulag (Glavnoie Upravlenie Lagerei), acronym of Main Administration of Camps.

Photographs of the Blumthal family:
    Erich Sõerd and his mother
    Oskar Sõerd
    Erich and Leida 1930s
    Leida and her son, Jaak
    Liisa Ots Blumthal, Leida´s mother
    Linda's police portraits
    Helene-Marie
    Ida
    Adolf

Friday, 5 April 2019


…entre nazismo e comunismo, venha o diabo e escolha

A few weeks ago I was talking about an interview published in the newspaper Público with the writer José Milhazes about his book Os Blumthal. Today I write my impressions on the first pages of the author that reflect the first twenty-two years of Estonia independence.

Wednesday, 27 March 2019


Three acre
All springs are the same and different. Different because each year that your eyes pass have aged three hundred and sixty-one days. The same because the breeze, colour, aroma and light of this moment were repeated last year and the previous one and will be repeated next year and the next.

Monday, 18 March 2019


At home without mask

It´s not uncommon to hear stories like the one told by Ian Jack. Very often cases similar to what seems to be happened to his great grandmother are heard. And I say it happened to her great grandmother because it was really she who suffered it.

Saturday, 9 March 2019


Truant student

I am ashamed that some teenagers will be ahead of those of us who already have an age, and we have also been responsible for "blackening" the future of these generations. What's going on?