Amalia Day

I know almost nothing about Amalia Rodrigues. I visited though her lovely house close to where I live (in São Bento) and I listen to her songs from time to time - I think I will soon develop a nice obsession with the Portuguese language when I get home and I believe that I will learn her songs by heart (like I do it with Mariza and sing out loud along with her while I drive :-)). I know though that Amalia had a very close friend, Doina Zugravescu (a Romanian lady), who has a house in Lisbon (you can find her on Google) and I wonder what she could tell the world about Amalia. The nice exhibition that I saw was at Museu Berrardo (there is another one this year at Museu da Electricidade, but I haven't managed to see it yet-too many things that need to be done and seen :-) Have a lovely day!

Just a day

"I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments" - Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat, Pray, Love" :-)))







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The Matrix Day

My matrix day-wondering how powerful our thoughts can be, how perfect and yes, correct, life is, how everything flows according to us. If we could only understand and never forget that we guide life with our thoughts, that dreams can turn into reality very easily, that we all contribute to the "whole". Yes, I believe in this and I believe that our weaknesses (doubts, second thoughts, lack of consistency, imbalance) produce cracks in our own "system" and we end up in different points depending on that. I have been thinking about this lately-how I attracted certain things and people in my life, how I made these things and people go away-unconsciously I think I wanted that to happen, or because of my fears and doubts I opened huge cracks that unbalanced everything. This is why I like certain people and avoid others. I don't need negativity, I don't need second thoughts , I don't need doubts and uncertainty. Lisbon and Portugal have offered me the luxury of being able to dream, to ignore these people and situations, to let myself flow over this amazing country, to dream afar and project good things into the Universe. And for this I love this place. I do not know if it has to do with me, with my way of being also, but sure it does with this amazingly peaceful country. It is like you walk on peaceful land, where everything is in harmony, where the negativity is taken away by the strong wind and where the Sun shines happily. I love Portugal for this and I love Portuguese for being able to assimilate all these good energies-I know I don't like certain things in them, but I think that they posses this ability-to listen to nature, to their feelings and to be grateful for the little things that they get in life. Everything is so fragile and subtle and they know how to handle this. And all this harmony creates harmony, and all this lack of thinking creates that state of bliss where all the worries are gone.

My day

I cannot find the reason yet why Lisbon has decided to send me away. I love her, she loves me :-) ....but still she decided that we have to be apart for a while. I believe this is only to test my reaction when it comes to saying good-byes, departures, breaking-up etc etc-I am an "expert" with this, but I still haven't learned to handle all these strong emotions and I think I will never will. I have decided that Lisbon suits me, that I want to live next to the sea (the OCEAN, not a sea-I learned only here that sea=lake and yes, it is true!!), to have a big house with a wall made out of glass, to listen to the waves in the morning and ignore all the useless things in life.







Do you have any idea what the smell of the Eucalyptus tree bark smells like? divine....

Love Day

Even though these days the Sun is not out, the rain is here and the lovely colors of Lisbon are somehow not as vivid as I know them, my heart is absolutely filled with light and love. Yes. I have to confess that I feel like the good fairy these days. I talk to people (secretly, in my mind) who interact with me and whenever I see them smile I send them my love. You would think that I am crazy, but I am not :-)) - of course, who could ever confess that. My "target" now are the people working at Pingo Doce-my lovely supermarket just at the corner of the street, the lovely people with kind and smily faces. I know them all by know-I know who is in charge with what, how fast or slow they are, smart or less smart, who looks in my eyes whenever they had to give me the change...and so on. I thank them all and they don't know that, but I will miss them all. I am sorry I cannot take pictures of their lovely, friendly faces and post them here-I will miss the guy who sells bread and who smiles at me so kindly (he likes me, I like him too :-)), I will miss the cashier who asks me every time "precisa do saco?", the fat, African lady who sings and sells fish, the toothless old lady who I guess must be some kind of supervisor of all the cashiers and so on. So I send them all my love, wish them luck and want to see them again soon. Love.

The Day

You know when you wake up and you have that feeling that something fabulous is going to happen? Well, this feeling was today with me and I really didn't know what to expect. Since I wanted to catch another moment with fog in Lisbon, I guess this was the nice surprise of the day :-) I swear that some days ago I was thinking-hm, such a pity that I am leaving, I will not get to see fog again in Lisbon (and trust me, Lisbon is great with fog!!)-the last time I took pictures with fog was in March 2008. Somebody must have listened to my secret wish :-) thank you.







I just couldn't believe my eyes how beautiful and perfect everything was under this bridge.

Day B-Day Bliss

What an amazing, blessed day. Sunny and lovely. I loved it.



I had no idea that on a day with light traffic I could get to Caparica in 15 minutes-this is what I did and enjoyed every single second and every single ray of Sun. It is amazing to read and while you have a break to walk on the lovely sand of this huge beach. I even lost my way :-) searching for the car. Love U!





The first hours of the morning were filled with seagulls and surfers. How beautiful it must be to live your whole childhood close to the sea....free, free, free.