Inner Babel / Babel Interior

O que eu quero do ano novo?  Quero clareza de espírito, quero a leveza da alma, quero o conciliar das dúvidas, das incertezas. Quero o coração calmo. Quero ser eu mesma, quero olhar para dentro e saber quem eu sou, a cada instante. Quero caminhar firme, quero acreditar que sigo o rumo que devo seguir. Quero confiar no universo, em mim. Quero luz, quero paixão  quero amor, quero aconchego e colo amigo. Quero me dar colo e dizer para mim que tudo vai ficar bem. Quero harmonia, saúde, equilíbrio, paz! Quero para mim e quero para você também! Feliz ano novo!  What do I want for myself in the new year?  I want clarity of the espirit, lightness of the soul. I want the reconciliation of doubts, of uncertainties. I want a calm heart. I want to be myself, I want to look inside and know who I am, at every instant. I want to walk firmly, I want to believe that I'm following the path I'm supposed to walk. I want to trust the Universe, myself. I want light, I want passion, I want...

Saber  onde começou Lembrar o que principiou A gente sabe A gente lembra Sem a menor ideia  de onde vai parar A gente sente Sem saber sequer  se quer que pare Segue a espiral Seguimos nós Voltas rodopiantes Um aparente mesmo lugar Que não é o mesmo Não somos os mesmos Subimos a espiral Passamos pelos mesmos pontos As mesmas perguntas D iferentes  respostas  A espiral gira, sobe, continua   Mas não sabemos Nunca adivinhamos Onde vai parar

What a relief! In the end What's left Is a leaf

We surrender We submit  To the energy of life  The electrical current Running through Head to toes We feel  Both The urgency The  burning  of the bodies The bliss  of   the souls  Meeting At another dimension No good, no evil  Satisfied Suspended Us  Finding our way  to  Paradise

Always a soap bubble  All floating  dreams' colors   In a perfect round transparency There's an unopened window  in every soap bubble  Away it floats the bubble Thinner and thinner it gets Every passing nanosecond  Vanishing in the air Until p op goes the bubble And  pop goes me

I walk every day the same path to work. What makes it different are the little things I see along the way, leaves and flowers fallen off trees, diligent ants, bits and pieces of things someone dropped unknowingly. I take photographs of these things I find and they become distorted versions of themselves, different lights, shapes, hues.  A sort of magic operates on them. The little things become great.  Today, I could not find beauty in the little things along the path I walk everyday. Today, they did not manage to catch my eye, to uplift my spirit. They were there and I'm not saying I didn't see them. I did, but they did not glow, they did not stand out. Maybe it's because I see my country in a difficult situation, politicians and their dirty alliances preventing lives to grow into their full splendor. The stealing of public money, the closing of schools, of libraries, the threat to democratic institutions. People defending their own needs not thinking they can never s...

There is never time. There are children, laughing, running, getting their knees scratched, crying. There are bills to pay, news to watch and things to say while we take big bites of beef and fries. Things started and not finished, sentences left incomplete. And their incompleteness hovers above my head and haunts me and wakes me up from my counted hours of sleep and I pick a pen and a piece of paper on the nightstand, and I pick up the IPad at the grocery's line, or a napkin at the ice cream parlor and I fill in the blanks with the words of our dreams with the delicacy of the love that once was and I continue the writing of the bits of our lives. I pick them up where we left them and I choose the words that will keep them infinite.

Sometimes you'd like  To be a nywhere else But where you are You wish  You were Anyone else  But who you are Roots  Hold you down Choices  Tie you up  Immobility, The only option Life runs a river Life flows steadily Quick I t moves    What's on the way I t takes  By the river Y ou stand  You watch it You can't find yourself You're there You're not there You're gone