Saturday, May 7, 2011

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."

Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

diversity comes from stress

hoje quando regava o canteiro que acabara de cavar
a terra começou a misturar-se com a água
esta mistura lembrou-me o "leite achocolatado" da escola da areosa
a lama que corria pelos canos de drenagem
do socalco cheio de carvalhos que já lá não estão
entre os quais fazíamos carreiros e comíamos formigas

gosto de cavar
não acho que a terra deva ser cavada


cortei uma pêra às fatias com folhas de menta
zeca afonso e milho verde

dia rápido