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Eduardo Galeano, somos um mar de foguitos


"(...)O mundo é isso, revelou:
um monte de gente, um mar de foguitos;
Não existem dois fogos iguais.
Cada pessoa brilha com luz própria, entre todas as outras
Há fogos grandes e fogos pequenos, e fogos de todas as cores
Há gente de fogo sereno, que nem fica sabendo do vento,
e há gente de fogo louco, que enche o ar de faíscas.
Alguns fogos, fogos bobos, não iluminam nem queimam
Mas outros ... outros ardem a vida com tanta vontade,
que não se pode olhá-los sem pestanejar
e quem se aproxima… incendeia-se…"

A Soldier's Silent Night

 

A Soldier's Silent Night was written by U.S. Marine Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt in 1987 under the title "Merry Christmas, My Friend."  It was later retitled "A Soldier's Silent Night."
The audio recording of this adapted version was recorded by Father Ted Berndt and his daughter Ellen Stout. Father Berndt was a priest at Bread of Life Charismatic Episcopal Church in Dousman, Wisconsin, a proud Marine, and a WWII Purple Heart recipient.
Father Berndt passed away March 19th, 2004 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. 
According to his daughter, "All he ever wanted to do was touch lives...to make a difference. We are blessed to share "A Soldier's Silent Night" again with you this Christmas."

Nestes últimos anos e com o alastrar dos conflitos (Ucrânia e, agora, Médio Oriente) é com desconforto (mesmo vergonha!) e alguma amargura que celebro esta que é, para mim, a festa da Família, por excelência. 
Tento convencer-me, a mim própria de que, ao fazê-lo, estou a celebrar os valores a ela associados e a importância que tem enquanto elemento estruturante de qualquer sociedade. 

"Left Behind", a dor de uma perda

 
A propósito das perdas, da saudade, do sentimento de desamparo e de vazio que todos, irremediavelmente, vamos sofrendo...

Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb

 

Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old Black poet from Los Angeles, recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at Joe Biden’s inauguration as US president on Jan. 20.

« When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry, a sea.
We must wade.
We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace.
And the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.
And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that it isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.
We, the successors of a country and the time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one.
And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect.
We are striving to forge our union with purpose.
To compose a country, committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.
And so we lift our gaze, not to what stands between us, but what stands before us
We close the divide because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside.
We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another.
We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
Let the globe, if nothing else say, this is true.
That even as we grieved, we grew.
That even as we hurt, we hoped.
That even as we tired, we tried.
That we’ll forever be tied together victorious.
Not because we will never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division.
Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid.
If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in all the bridges we’ve made.
That is the promise to glade the hill we climb.
If only we dare it’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit.
It’s the past we step into and how we repair it...»

"Quarantine Poem" by Eavan Boland

 Great Famine (Ireland))

Irish famine winter 1847 animation


"Between 1845 and 1852 more than a million Irish people died from starvation and disease.
The catastrophic Famine of the 1840s devastated Ireland."

Rolando Boldrin, Sinto vergonha de mim

 "(...)Tenho vergonha da minha impotência, da minha falta de garra, das minhas desilusões e do meu cansaço..."


"De tanto ver triunfar as nulidades, de tanto ver prosperar a desonra, de tanto ver crescer a injustiça, de tanto ver agigantarem-se os poderes nas mãos dos maus. o homem chega a desanimar da virtude, a rir-se da honra, a ter vergonha de ser honesto."

Em tempos conturbados e incertos, no Brasil, um poema que se impõe, pela sua actualidade e pela excelência de quem o diz.
(Setembro, 20, 2018)

Os anos vão passando, mas continua a ser imenso o prazer com que ouço este senhor!...
 Entretanto parece que nada mudou no que diz respeito à actualidade das suas palavras, da mensagem que procura transmitir !... 
Uma realidade que, longe de estar confinada às fronteiras do Brasil, atravessa continentes e nos tem, também, atingido na forma de múltiplos e contínuos escândalos protagonizados por quem tem estado, supostamente, ao nosso serviço e a "trabalhar" em nome do interesse comum.