Whenever I get a fever, I have weird dreams.
I had a fever last night and I mistook my room here for my room in Sao Paulo.
I dreamed that it was all a nightmare and I would wake up safely in my green room.
But I woke up here.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Serendipity
One of my favorite feelings is discovering by chance a new favorite restaurant. You may never come back to the place - but the feeling of stumbling upon a restaurant you love is just magical. The mixture of luck and good food is just extraordinary and makes me so happy. This is one of the beauties of cities: you can have those lucky encounters any day.
I have to be honest about 2 things:
I had long conversations with my friends lately about the role of fate. And some quotes really stuck on my head - although I don't like to think things are not meant to be, I do love lucky coincidences. Even if it's just to make my life a little bit more beautiful
"You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence. There are no miracles. There is no such thing as fate. Nothing is meant to be." - (500) days of Summer (yes, it's chick flick)
"Quien no lo sepa ya
lo aprenderá de prisa:
la vida no para,
no espera, no avisa.
Tantos planes, tantos planes
vueltos espuma
tu, por ejemplo,
tan a tiempo
y tan
inoportuna"
Jorge Drexler - Inoportuna
"Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meeting of people and events that we call coincidence. "Co-incidence" means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time, they meet: Tomas appears at the restaurant at the same time the radio is playing Beethoven. We do not even notice the great majority of such coincidences. If the seat Tomas occupied had been occupied by the local butcher, Tereza never would have noticed that the radio was playing Beethoven (though the meeting of Beethoven and the butcher would also have been an interesting coincidence). But her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty, and she would never forget that music. Whenever she heard it, she would be touched." Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being.
I have to be honest about 2 things:
- I don't believe in "cosmic significance" or "signs"
- That said - when I discover a place that I really like by luck, it automatically becomes one of my favorite places.
I had long conversations with my friends lately about the role of fate. And some quotes really stuck on my head - although I don't like to think things are not meant to be, I do love lucky coincidences. Even if it's just to make my life a little bit more beautiful
"You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence. There are no miracles. There is no such thing as fate. Nothing is meant to be." - (500) days of Summer (yes, it's chick flick)
"Quien no lo sepa ya
lo aprenderá de prisa:
la vida no para,
no espera, no avisa.
Tantos planes, tantos planes
vueltos espuma
tu, por ejemplo,
tan a tiempo
y tan
inoportuna"
Jorge Drexler - Inoportuna
"Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meeting of people and events that we call coincidence. "Co-incidence" means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time, they meet: Tomas appears at the restaurant at the same time the radio is playing Beethoven. We do not even notice the great majority of such coincidences. If the seat Tomas occupied had been occupied by the local butcher, Tereza never would have noticed that the radio was playing Beethoven (though the meeting of Beethoven and the butcher would also have been an interesting coincidence). But her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty, and she would never forget that music. Whenever she heard it, she would be touched." Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Defining Gisela
Gisela is a city.
Gisela, Arizona, has a population of 532.
It was founded by miners in the late XIX century. The city was named Gisela because the children were reading the book "Countess Gisela" in school and voted that the settlement should be called Gisela after the book.
It's located near the Tonto National Park
21% of the men are firemen - constantly controlling the clash of the high temperatures and the National Park.
Should Gisela, Arizona, even exist?
Gisela, Arizona, has a population of 532.
It was founded by miners in the late XIX century. The city was named Gisela because the children were reading the book "Countess Gisela" in school and voted that the settlement should be called Gisela after the book.
It's located near the Tonto National Park
21% of the men are firemen - constantly controlling the clash of the high temperatures and the National Park.
Should Gisela, Arizona, even exist?
Friday, October 9, 2009
We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto
I'm back in Cambridge, MA. I'm no longer living in a Latin-American megalopolis. I'm back at the MPA/ID classes. But I have decided to continue this blog.
It was a road-blog to begin with. And I'm still on the road, trying to figure out a ton of things.
It was a road-blog to begin with. And I'm still on the road, trying to figure out a ton of things.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Le vent nous portera
Blame it on the wind. Blame it on the stars. Blame it on the fall season. Blame it on the moon.
"I shouldn’t tell you
but this moon
but this cognac
leave us moved like the devil."
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
"I shouldn’t tell you
but this moon
but this cognac
leave us moved like the devil."
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Boston soundtrack of the day
Garbage - I'm only happy when it rains
Madonna - Rain
Phil Collins - I wish it would rain down
Burt Bacharah - Raindrops keep falling on my head
Gene Kelly - Singing in the rain
Madonna - Rain
Phil Collins - I wish it would rain down
Burt Bacharah - Raindrops keep falling on my head
Gene Kelly - Singing in the rain
Prince - Purple Rain
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