The Smile and The Silence !!!

The Smile and The Silence

They were an extraordinary team!
Silence and Smile!
But which came first?
Perhaps a proverb may help...

Silence precedes the desire to speak, just like the first step precedes the long journey.

Silence was always feeling blocked, he had so much to say! And when he finally decided to say what was on his mind, you know what happened? He couldn’t speak!

Smile didn’t know what was going on around him, and he didn’t know how to express himself, so he just smiled! But he knew that a smile comes before laughter and the understanding of the world!

So he decided to tell a story:

“A long time ago, people didn’t know what heaven was! So as the sun was setting and darkness fell, they would run away and seek a place to hide from the night!”

As time went by, they realized that by closing their eyes they could protect themselves!
Some of them realized that the night could take them to better places, and this is when dreams started!!
Some others would get lost inside themselves, and this is how nightmares began!!

Everyone would follow their star path. And little by little, tiny particles of light became huge constellations!

And the original individual journey was transformed into a joyous adventure that we now call Humanity!!!

If some see the silence as a lack of sounds, others may view it as a gift to better understand their fellow neighbors, and continue to shape and construct a better world !!

TAO TE CHING - LAO TZU - 64 (PART 2/2)

If you are as careful at the end
As you were at the beginning,
you won't be disappointed.

Therefore the sage desires non-desire,
Does not value rare goods,
Studies the unlearnable
So that she can correct the mistakes of average people
And aid all things in manifesting their true nature

Without presuming to take the initiative.

JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)

ELEGY XII - HIS PARTING FROM HER

Think, heaven hath motion lost, and the world, fire :

Much more I could, but many words have made

That, oft, suspected which men would persuade;

Take therefore all in this: I love so true,

As I will never look for less in you.  

Pensa que o céu perdeu o movimento, e o mundo fogo:

Muito mais diria, mas muito palavreado torna

Suspeito aquilo que os homens persuadiria.

Considera tudo nisto: eu amo tão verdadeiramente,

Que nunca esperarei por menos vindo de ti.

Tradução Helena Barbas

Elegias Amorosas

Assírio & Alvim Editores

Gershwin/Say: Summertime ∙ Fazıl Say

Summertime, and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin'
So hush little baby, Don't you cry

One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky
But 'til that morning, there ain't nothin' can harm you
With Daddy and Mammy standin' by

Summertime, and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin'
So hush little baby, Don't you cry

One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky
But 'til that morning, there ain't nothin can harm you
With Daddy and Mammy standin' by

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Fazıl Say ∙ Carlos ...

Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.

Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé several times, including the original 1924 scoring, "theater orchestra" setting published in 1926, and the symphony orchestra scoring published in 1942, though completed earlier. The piece received its premiere in the concert, An Experiment in Modern Music, which was held on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Whiteman and his band with Gershwin playing the piano.

The editors of the Cambridge Music Handbooks opined that "The Rhapsody in Blue (1924) established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works."^[1]

Louis Armstrong - Hello Dolly

I said hello, Dolly, 
Well, hello, Dolly
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're lookin' swell, Dolly
I can tell, Dolly
You're still glowin'
You're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
I feel that room swayin'
While the band's playin'
One of your old favourite songs from way back when
So take her wrap, fellas
Find her an empty lap, fellas
Dolly'll never go away again

I said hello, Dolly
Well, hello, Dolly
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're lookin' swell, Dolly
I can tell, Dolly
You're still glowin'
You're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
I feel the room swayin'
While that ole band keeps on playin'
One of your old favourite songs from way back when
So golly, gee, fellas
Find her an empty knee, fellas
Dolly'll never go away
I said she'll never go away
Dolly'll never go away again

Songwriters: HERMAN, JERRY

Hello, Dolly lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

Kipling

If

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

But make allowance for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,

If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings --nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much,

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And --which is more-- you'll be a Man, my son!

I CHING

41. KOU - COMING TO MEE

The image is that of a spring reverting to the inside of the mountain during a time of drought.

By returning to its quiet center during the time of decrease, it avoids evaporating and exhausting itself in vain.

To try to force progress by arguing, manipulating, or making excuses will only bring your own downfall.

Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime (1968)

Summertime lyrics

Songwriters: George & Ira Gershwin, Du Bose & Dorothy Heyward

Summertime,

And the livin' is easy

Fish are jumping'

And the cotton is high

Oh, Your daddy's rich

And your mamma's good looking'

So hush little baby

Don't you cry

One of these mornings

You're going to rise up singing

Then you'll spread your wings

And you'll take to the sky

But 'til that morning

There's a'nothing can harm you

With your daddy and mammy

 

Standing by

Don't you cry 

VAN GOGH (1853-1890)

Van Gogh, Sower with Setting Sun, June 1888. Oil on canvas, 64.2 x 80.3 cm. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.


"Oh, the beautiful sun down here in high summer; 

it beats down on your head 

and I have no doubt at all that it drives you crazy. 

Now being that way already, 

all I do is enjoy it." 

Vincent to Emile Bernard, 1888

A Kiss to Build a Dream On by Louis Armstrong (Lyrics)

MELHOR EDUCAÇAO PARA TODOS !!!

Já está disponível na Internet, através do site www.wdl.org

Reúne mapas, textos, fotos, gravações e filmes de todos os tempos e explica em sete idiomas as jóias e relíquias culturais de todas as
bibliotecas do planeta.

Tem, sobre tudo, caráter patrimonial" , antecipou em LA NACION Abdelaziz Abid , coordenador do projeto impulsionado pela UNESCO e outras 32 instituições. A BDM não oferecerá documentos correntes, a não ser "com valor de  patrimônio, que permitirão apreciar e conhecer melhor as culturas do mundo em idiomas diferentes: árabe, chinês, inglês, francês, russo, espanhol e português. Mas há documentos em linha em mais de 50 idiomas".

Entre os documentos mais antigos há alguns códices  pré-colombianos, graças à contribuição do México, e os primeiros mapas da América, desenhados por Diego Gutiérrez para o rei de Espanha em 1562", explicou Abid.

Os tesouros incluem o Hyakumanto darani , um documento em japonês publicado no ano 764 e considerado o primeiro texto impresso da história; um relato dos astecas que constitui a primeira menção do Menino Jesus no Novo Mundo; trabalhos de cientistas árabes desvelando o mistério da álgebra; ossos utilizados como oráculos e esteiras chinesas; a Bíblia de Gutenberg; antigas fotos latino-americanas da Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil e a célebreBíblia do Diabo, do século XIII, da Biblioteca Nacional da Suécia.

Fácil de navegar:

Cada jóia da cultura universal aparece acompanhada de uma breve explicação do seu conteúdo e seu significado. Os documentos foram
passados por scanners e incorporados no seu idioma original, mas as explicações aparecem em sete línguas, entre elas O PORTUGUÊS. A biblioteca começa com 1200 documentos, mas foi pensada para receber um número ilimitado de textos, gravados, mapas, fotografias e ilustrações.

Embora seja apresentado oficialmente  na sede da UNESCO, em Paris, a Biblioteca Digital Mundial já está disponível na Internet, através do sítio:

http://www.wdl.org/

O acesso é gratuito e os usuários podem ingressar diretamente pela Web , sem necessidade de se registrarem.

Permite ao internauta orientar a sua busca por épocas, zonas geográficas, tipo de documento e instituição. O sistema propõe as
explicações em sete idiomas (árabe, chinês, inglês, francês, russo, espanhol e português), embora os originas existam na sua língua
original.

Desse modo, é possível, por exemplo, estudar em detalhe o Evangelho de São Mateustraduzido em aleutiano pelo missionário russo Ioann Veniamiov, em 1840. Com um simples clique, podem-se passar as páginas de um livro, aproximar ou afastar os textos e movê-los em todos os sentidos. A excelente definição das imagens permite uma leitura cômoda e minuciosa.

Entre as jóias que contem no momento a BDM está a Declaração de Independência dos Estados Unidos, assim como as Constituições de
numerosos países; um texto japonês do século XVI considerado a primeira impressão da história; o jornal de um estudioso veneziano que acompanhou Fernão de Magalhães na sua viagem ao redor do mundo; o original das "Fábulas" de Lafontaine, o primeiro livro publicado nas Filipinas em espanhol e tagalog, a Bíblia de Gutenberg, e umas pinturas rupestres africanas que datam de 8.000 A .C.

Duas regiões do mundo estão particularmente bem representadas: América Latina e Médio Oriente. Isso deve-se à ativa participação da Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil, à biblioteca de Alexandria no Egito e à Universidade Rei Abdulá da Arábia Saudita.

A estrutura da BDM foi decalcada do projeto de digitalização da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos, que começou em 1991 e atualmente contém 11 milhões de documentos em linha.

Os seus responsáveis afirmam que a BDM está sobretudo destinada a investigadores, professores e alunos. Mas a importância que reveste esse sítio vai muito além da incitação ao estudo das novas gerações que vivem num mundo audiovisual.

Michel Petrucciani - Estate (Summer in Italia) Live at Montreux 1990

UNCLE MARCO

Time to Forget ?

Or

Time to Forgive ?

Time to more ?

Or

Time to Forever more ?

Time to wait ?

Or 

Time to what ?

UNCLE MARCO

" O MUNDO NUNCA TERMINA EM NÓS,

APENAS COMEÇA DENTRO DE NÓS !!! "

UNCLE MARCO

PEACE & ...

MILTON TORTELLA !!!

Milton Tortella !!!

Grande Ilustrador do novo livro  

 THE BANTAM em Inglês 

GALLO BANTAM em Espanhol

EDITORA CONTRACAPA

Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

" In the sea of women

few shipwreck at night;

many with the dawn. "

translated by 

Willis Barnstone

Letter for Someone ...

1. First of all you must believe 
in your intuition !!! 
Trust in your inner self !

2. The things from outside 
have their times , 
not our times ! 
Try to see it , 
and learn with !!!

3. Don't create a lot of defenses 
with poor excuses !!! 
We must learn to suffer 
and to finish the suffering !!!

Last words of "The Time Machine" H.G. Wells

" And I have by me, for my comfort, 

two strange white flowers - shrivelled now, 

and brown and flat and brittle - 

to witness that even 

when mind and strength had gone, 

gratitude and a mutual tenderness 

still lived on in the heart of man. "