TIME

"On ne peut pas definir le temps" Klein

No, it was not Calvin Klein who said that, but Etienne Klein whom I recently watched the interview on the TV program "Una Belleza Nueva" hosted by my ex-teacher of Literature, Mr. Christian Warken, a great character from Chile. The last time I met him I screamed with my strong accent, "Professor!" He looked at me and smiled. He even made me read my poem in French for the other students. As I recall it was the first time I shared my poems with people in such a intimate contact of looking directly to my public's eyes. Well, I talked at conferences, I dance, I perform at the theatres, I see the public looking at me, but this time it was different, special, for I was peeling myself, revealing the deep inside of me, and it was an exhilarating sensation. I saw tears and smiles, and the reaction of my words on others.

I once read "Time is an Illusion" but after viewing this interview I am doubting it. Time really does exist. What we do with our lives is what will measure the precise order and establish the limits. You are as old as you think you are, time passes, yes, but how you use it tells much more of who and where you are in your age than any other passage or presage. Here a comment of mine about time well spent:D

Time sounds so sweet and divine
When you listen to Etienne Klein:

Etienne Klein-temps
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Velazquez's Birthday

Isn't that formidable that GOOGLE keeps recreating its own logo with figures, paintings, and whatever creative way to commemorate dates and fates? That gives me inspiration to write more and more about great personalities in the WHO (World History Orbitation:) Goggle left the G engulfing the painter, a semi O appears in the reflection (but for my perspective it could well be the letter E in the end;) and the other O got lost inside the mirror in one of the many Velazquez's self portrait, his masterpiece "The Maids of Honour" or in its original "Las Meninas" simply "The Girls". I saw it when I went to the Museum of Prado in Madrid. It's a huge painting, it covers the whole wall. What intrigues most in this painting, at least for my point of view, it's not so much that he is inside, probably looking at the mirror, to paint himself as a reflection of the whole scene, which is not what is exposed there but the subtle nuance reflecting inside the mirror, that he was actually there inside his studio, his models were nothing more nothing less that the Spanish king and queen. And that is what makes it so fascinating. That he makes his own viewers the royalty themselves. For if you are the one in front of the painting, YOU are the one being recreated in that canvas in front of him. How ingenious this is! And he is also accompanied by the infant, the royal child with a fainted smile in her face. There is so much he transpose from her, and also so much going on around that's hard to believe he could feel so at ease as he makes it appear. After all, he was elected as the royal painter. And how burden did that represent as well.

World Environment Day

The WE Day
"We are not apart from Nature.. we are part of Nature"

Today is the World Environment Day and this date started a long time ago. This year's slogan is "CO2, Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy."

Enhance your day with awareness about e-facts.
Come up with durable and plausible solutions.
Or Plant a tree (or many trees!:)
Now Recycle more...
Open a eco-store or work in a garden.
Mainly avoid using electricity or shut it asap
Insist on economy of water, energy supplies
Avoid driving, prefer public transportation, or even better, use a bicycle.

Let's give a possibility of a clean environment for our own generation!:)

Besides recycling everything, separating each material (plastics, cans, papers, tetrapaks, etc, etc) and getting them on a recycle center near home, I also use a medium tank in the shower so that I may recycle water as well. This way I flush the toilet, or I use it to water the garden, also recycle the seeds, and all vegetables left-overs, making compounds. In this matter I have now more than fifteen trees, small and big, to beautify my terrace, and that's only for I live in an apartment...or I would have an organic farm by now!

Ana is celebrating the World Environment Day by planting trees in her own terrace with the hope it will help combat the greenhouse effect during winter.

Orbs in San Francisco

I took some pictures of the Golden Gate and The Rock (Alcatraz Island) and what was my surprise when I noticed there were many orbs in there. I mean, that's a place where much have happened, but that there were so many of what I personally call "orbiting round-bounded spirits" all around the area, that's huge. See it for yourself (Click on the pics to see bigger trails with more details:)
Some would say that's just the effect that digital cameras sometimes expose, I give the benefit of doubt, the one I used was brand-new, I just had bought it there. And if it was the case of water spots or dust on the lens, I would not have normal photos in a sequence of photos from the same camera and location as I had shown up here. All of the shots in this sequence should have the dust or the fog in it. The orbs did not appear in consecutive photos, some had them and some just didn't. And period. Case closed. For there is more on earth and heaven than even the most trained eye couldn't explain. And if there is something that catches my attention are those circles that appear to float, hovering over some particular areas where seem to derive an eerie atmosphere.
More photos with orbs on my site:
http://www.geocities.com/AnnaClaudiaAntunes/Orbes.htm