quarta-feira, abril 13, 2011
message from my pinched nerves
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domingo, janeiro 23, 2011
meu guru 2011
domingo, outubro 31, 2010
obrigada pelo presente
Peço por favor
Se alguém de longe me escutar
Que venha aqui pra me buscar
Me leve para passear
No seu disco voador
Como um enorme carrossel
Atravessando o azul do céu
Até pousar no meu quintal
Se o pensamento duvidar
Todos os meus poros vão dizer
Estou pronto para embarcar
Sem me preocupar e sem temer
Vem me levar
Para um lugar
Longe daqui
Livre para navegar
No espaço sideral
Porque sei que sou
Semelhante de você
Diferente de você
Passageiro de você
À espera de você
No seu balão de são joão
Que caia bem na minha mão
Ou numa pipa de papel
Me leve para além do céu
Se o coração disparar
Quando eu levantar os pés do chão
A imensidão vai me abraçar
E acalmar a minha pulsação
Longe de mim
Solto no ar
Dentro do amor
Livre para navegar
Indo para onde for
O seu disco voador
(Arnaldo Antunes - Contato Imediato)
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de noite na cama eu fico pensando....

Representa a censura das pulsões que a sociedade e a cultura impõem ao id, impedindo-o de satisfazer plenamente os seus instintos e desejos. É a repressão, particularmente, a repressão sexual. Manifesta-se à consciência indiretamente, sob forma da moral, como um conjunto de interdições e deveres, e por meio da educação, pela produção do "eu ideal", isto é, da pessoa moral, boa e virtuosa.
terça-feira, novembro 17, 2009
1ª carta
Aperto o espero
O nó se faz, bem atrás da cortina
Parece Maria
Um bejo, sem tejo
Bem perto da porta
É noite, é de dia
Eu danço na ânsia
de ver que te salvo
Eu durmo no susto
dos olhos fechados
Que vêem não tão perto
o amor descoberto
Mas juro por justo
Como a quem tem fé
Que sinto o que sinto
Pois sonho acordado
Pois sonho um mundo
Você ao meu lado
MMM
1 de outubro de 2007
sexta-feira, novembro 13, 2009
The Generation M
My generation would like to break up with you.
Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it. I think we have irreconcilable differences.
You wanted big, fat, lazy "business." We want small, responsive, micro-scale commerce.
You turned politics into a dirty word. We want authentic, deep democracy — everywhere.
You wanted financial fundamentalism. We want an economics that makes sense for people — not just banks.
You wanted shareholder value — built by tough-guy CEOs. We want real value, built by people with character, dignity, and courage.
You wanted an invisible hand — it became a digital hand. Today's markets are those where the majority of trades are done literally robotically. We want a visible handshake: to trust and to be trusted.
You wanted growth — faster. We want to slow down — so we can become better.
You didn't care which communities were capsized, or which lives were sunk. We want a rising tide that lifts all boats.
You wanted to biggie size life: McMansions, Hummers, and McFood. We want to humanize life.
You wanted exurbs, sprawl, and gated anti-communities. We want a society built on authentic community.
You wanted more money, credit and leverage — to consume ravenously. We want to be great at doing stuff that matters.
You sacrificed the meaningful for the material: you sold out the very things that made us great for trivial gewgaws, trinkets, and gadgets. We're not for sale: we're learning to once again do what is meaningful.
There's a tectonic shift rocking the social, political, and economic landscape. The last two points above are what express it most concisely. I hate labels, but I'm going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation "M."
What do the "M"s in Generation M stand for? The first is for a movement. It's a little bit about age — but mostly about a growing number of people who are acting very differently. They are doing meaningful stuff that matters the most. Those are the second, third, and fourth "M"s.
Gen M is about passion, responsibility, authenticity, and challenging yesterday's way of everything. Everywhere I look, I see an explosion of Gen M businesses, NGOs, open-source communities, local initiatives, government. Who's Gen M? Obama, kind of. Larry and Sergey. The Threadless, Etsy, and Flickr guys. Ev, Biz and the Twitter crew. Tehran 2.0. The folks at Kiva, Talking Points Memo, and FindtheFarmer. Shigeru Miyamoto, Steve Jobs, Muhammad Yunus, and Jeff Sachs are like the grandpas of Gen M. There are tons where these innovators came from.
Gen M isn't just kind of awesome — it's vitally necessary. If you think the "M"s sound idealistic, think again.
The great crisis isn't going away, changing, or "morphing." It's the same old crisis — and it's growing.
You've failed to recognize it for what it really is. It is, as I've repeatedly pointed out, in our institutions: the rules by which our economy is organized.
But they're your institutions, not ours. You made them — and they're broken. Here's what I mean:
"... For example, the auto industry has cut back production so far that inventories have begun to shrink — even in the face of historically weak demand for motor vehicles. As the economy stabilizes, just slowing the pace of this inventory shrinkage will boost gross domestic product, or GDP, which is the nation's total output of goods and services."
Clearing the backlog of SUVs built on 30-year-old technology is going to pump up GDP? So what? There couldn't be a clearer example of why GDP is a totally flawed concept, an obsolete institution. We don't need more land yachts clogging our roads: we need a 21st Century auto industry.
I was (kind of) kidding about seceding before. Here's what it looks like to me: every generation has a challenge, and this, I think, is ours: to foot the bill for yesterday's profligacy — and to create, instead, an authentically, sustainably shared prosperity.
Anyone — young or old — can answer it. Generation M is more about what you do and who you are than when you were born. So the question is this: do you still belong to the 20th century - or the 21st?
Love,
Umair and the Edge Economy Community
PS - Fire away in the comments with thoughts, questions, or — because I've left a ton of awesomeness out of this post — more examples of Gen M people and organizations.
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o tiro saiu pela culatra.. para minha sorte
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a quem se ama
soneto da separação
Silencioso e branco como a bruma
E das bocas unidas fez-se a espuma
E das mãos espalmadas fez-se o espanto
De repente da calma fez-se o vento
Que dos olhos desfez a última chama
E da paixão fez-se o pressentimento
E do momento imóvel fez-se o drama
De repente, não mais que de repente
Fez-se de triste o que se fez amante
E de sozinho o que se fez contente
Fez-se do amigo próximo, distante
Fez-se da vida uma aventura errante
De repente, não mais que de repente