Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...

It's about learning to dance in the rain.

"Love me if you will; hate me if you must; but for God's sake, don't ignore me."

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou

To a Stranger!

PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me, as of a dream,)
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
You grew up with me, were a boy with me, or a girl with me,
I ate with you, and slept with you, your body has become not yours only, nor left my body mine only,
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at
night alone,
I am to wait—I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.


Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass

Is/Not

Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise

sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities

you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,

nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow/traveller

Give up this medical concern,
buttoned, attentive,

permit yourself anger
and permit me mine

which needs neither
your approval nor your suprise

which does not need to be made legal
which is not against a disease

but against you,
which does not need to be understood

or washed or cauterized,
which needs instead

to be said and said.
Permit me the present tense.

Margaret Atwood

Deixo-vos um poema

Um dia a maioria de nós irá separar-se.
Sentiremos saudades de todas as conversas jogadas fora,
das descobertas que fizemos, dos sonhos que tivemos,
dos tantos risos e momentos que partilhamos.
Saudades até dos momentos de lágrimas, da angústia, das
vésperas dos finais de semana, dos finais de ano, enfim...
do companheirismo vivido.

Sempre pensei que as amizades continuassem para sempre.
Hoje não tenho mais tanta certeza disso.

Em breve cada um vai para seu lado, seja
pelo destino ou por algum
desentendimento, segue a sua vida.
Talvez continuemos a nos encontrar, quem sabe... nas cartas
que trocaremos.
Podemos falar ao telefone e dizer algumas tolices...
Aí, os dias vão passar, meses... anos... até este contacto
se tornar cada vez mais raro.
Vamo-nos perder no tempo...
Um dia os nossos filhos verão as nossas fotografias e
perguntarão:
"Quem são aquelas pessoas?"
Diremos... que eram nossos amigos e... isso vai doer tanto!
-"Foram meus amigos, foi com eles que vivi tantos bons
anos da minha vida!"
A saudade vai apertar bem dentro do peito.
Vai dar vontade de ligar, ouvir aquelas vozes novamente...
Quando o nosso grupo estiver incompleto...
reunir-nos-emos para um último adeus de um amigo.
E, entre lágrima abraçar-nos-emos.
Então faremos promessas de nos encontrar mais vezes
daquele dia em diante.
Por fim, cada um vai para o seu lado para continuar a viver a
sua vida isolada do passado.
E perder-nos-emos no tempo...
Por isso, fica aqui um pedido deste humilde amigo: não
deixes que a vida
passe em branco, e que pequenas adversidades sejam a causa de
grandes tempestades...
Eu poderia suportar, embora não sem dor, que tivessem
morrido todos os meus amores, mas enlouqueceria se morressem
todos os meus amigos!"

Fernando Pessoa

How Stuff Works

Some years ago I heard about a site that tells you how stuff works...and if you ask "what stuff??", well just about anything. Here are some examples:
How are movies stored on DVD discs? - How E-mail Works? - How do large Web sites handle the load of millions of visitors a day? - What is an Internet cookie? - How do GPS Receivers Work?

Along the years it's been adding more and more topics, so you can go from high tech to "How Pro Wrestling Works" (yes...even that).

You can learn about something useful or just help pass your free time learning nonsense things you never needed to know in the first place. But hey, you never know who you can impress with foolish knowledge!

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Hotel Fox

Porque há hoteis e... há hoteis, para os amantes do design e da diversidade passar por Copenhaga e não passar uma noite no Hotel Fox pode ser considerado um crime!

Este hotel é composto por 61 quartos, todos diferentes, cada um é uma peça de arte. Há para todos os gostos! Basta passar pelo site para percebermos esta variedade.

Os quartos estão categorizados por "X-Large", "Large", "Medium" e "Small"

Entre os pacotes que oferecem, existe o "Tour de Fox" que permite numa estadia de três noites, ficar em três quartos diferentes.

Aqui ficam alguns exemplos:

http://www.hotelfox.dk/