In The Mood For

[the ending of cold, dull, rainy and depressive wintery days]

It isn't because I write about beautiful things, I display bucolic, perfect, aesthetically pleasing images, I talk of less introspective themes and of  a bit superfluous desires, that I get around the calamity that this week has struck  my country. The weather threatened and fulfilled its threaten, only exaggerating the initial proposal. This week, as always, I suggest deliciously appetizing and perfect images, once again, as a way to lead you into dreaming and forgetting about reality for a moment, certainly a pretty tough one. My thoughts are with all those who have been without water, light, or roof for the past days. My hope is that their lives will quickly be restored and the the storm wil go by in a blink of an eye, because I deal with children and elderly people on a daily basis and I know how much frailty they feel having to face an economic conjecture of imminent collapse as well as the emanating  vicissitudes of time and life. I'm in the mood for ...


 Não é por escrever apenas sobre coisas bonitas, apresentar imagens bucólicas, perfeitas, esteticamente aprazíveis, falar de temas menos introspetivos e de desejos um pouco supérfluos, que me passa alguma vez ao lado a calamidade que se abateu esta semana no meu país. O tempo ameaçou e cumpriu, só que exagerou na proposta inicial. Esta semana, como sempre, proponho imagens deliciosamente apetecíveis e ideais, uma vez mais, como forma de vos levar a sonhar e a abstrair-se por momentos de uma realidade, de certo bem dura. O meu pensamento está com todos aqueles que há uma série de dias não têm água, nem luz, nem teto. Os meus votos são para que rapidamente as suas vidas se restabeleçam e o a intempérie passe num ápice, porque lido com crianças e idosos diariamente e sei o quanto estão frágeis perante uma conjetura económica de colapso iminente e perante as vicissitudes emanentes do tempo e da vida. Apetece-me...

{the returning of water and a decent hot bath for everyone}

{seeing people sheltered in comfy and warm clothes/ accessories}

{baking a some treat to have around if visits come unexpectedly}

{photographing for posterity the damage caused by the wind to secular trees}

{believing that the ONGs will provide steaming tea/ coffee for the dislodged families}

{going to the market to get flowers to take to a friend, sadly, in hospital}