20 JANUARY 2020
When Portuguese right wing MPs consider the tax increase on infamous bullfighting the biggest issue in this government’s cultural policy, it says a lot on what we can count on from that side of the parliament. And it adds on a few more black spots to the undeniable crisis of the democratic right wing in Portugal.
20 JANUARY 2020
How does such a cold sunny day (trees rubbing their branches on each other to warm up, the lawn-mower’s song and the green smell of grass) has made me miss some chocolate milk and a simple bun with butter?
IT'S JANUARY
The first poem (the first part) of my book, 366, is called “Janeiro” (“January”), as it must, in a book that is a leap year. I made this video to promote the book and the afore-mentioned poem. It’s about this month, but in 2016. The music was kindly supplied by João Páris.
2 JANUARY 2020
The news at home is called Prenda (Present). She’s a sweet dog, no pedigree, like every dog should be. Today we took her to the vet for the first time. She found the car unfamiliar but didn’t make much noise. She lives on patting and in return she gives love.
1 JANUARY 2020
Today is believe day. The first day of the year is, conventions accepted, a synonym of hope, a naïve belief in the regenerative power of calendars. Everything changes. Even if it stays the same. We look at shadows in kindness and at doors like portals to new adventures. All of them lead to a kind of Hogwarts.
30 DECEMBER 2019
It was just in May 2018 that I published my first “official” book of poetry, 366. Before that, for years, I manually crafted (with the precious help of miss printer) a whole collection of books I gave my closest friends. Though most of the poems lacked the necessary maturity to be appreciated as literature, the truth is I still see them with a full heart.
Like the first of them, “Flor Silvestre”. It was no more than my adolescence in bloom, all the passion my body couldn’t keep for a girl with very blue eyes and pale skin. The exaggeration brings a smile to my face.
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