Amar pelos dois 

“True originality in art is never an aim but a reward”

                                                            John Berger

Some facts happened last weeks have given me a bit of hope.

Arrepio  

Each time Little Manuel woke up he saw dark figures beside his bed.

In the small hours monks used to approach the bed number 38 at the Dona Estefânia Hospital in Lisbon. We are talking of the year nineteen forty.

DO NOT BREAK THE CHAIN

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

     I came across the letter while I was cleaning the larder. It was inside a china pot, folded four times.

Guernica

Picasso had no inspiration. Although he wanted to be working for the Muses´ visit, he did not make progress. The artist had a job commissioned by the Government of the Second Republic to exhibit at the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life, in Paris, 1937.

261 Fearless

Once upon a time there was a young woman who wanted to run. And once upon a time too a city which didn´t have rules referred to the Marathon race and women. In other words, women couldn´t run. Period.

Was this Boston Marathon for men only?

Easter Sunday

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

     He was the first person whom I heard this tradition. My grandfather, he was.

     He told me that there was the custom of seeing the day break from a hill and asking for a wish.

Efeito vacina 

Despite my interest about the History I didn´t know the episode that Sebastião Bugalho describes —page 11, SOL, Edição Nº5533, 3 Abril 2007— so majestically. This young boy, with all due respect, tell us what happened in the Ancient Greece.