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"Pongáio" was the name my Aunt Mona gave to a long, green, cool room where we gathered at her home —
replete with comfy chairs, a rocker, sewing machine, sewing goods, beautiful beads, shelves, books, bibelots, photographs, odds'n'ends, mementos of a life, treasures —
a gathering of all the useful & 'useless' things that so make life a pleasure.



Monday, January 09, 2012

"Losing"

One Art

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

–Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

                                       ~ Elizabeth Bishop

Saturday, January 07, 2012

Beira Mar


BEIRA MAR
Beira mar, beira mar novo
Foi só eu é que cantei
Ô beira mar, adeus dona
Adeus riacho de areia.

Eu não moro mais aqui
Nem aqui quero morar
Ô beira mar, adeus dona
Adeus riacho de areia

Moro na casca da lima
No caroço do juá
Ô beira mar, adeus dona
Adeus riacho de areia

Arriscando minha vida
Numa canoa furada
Ô beira mar, adeus dona
Adeus riacho de areia

Adeus, adeus, toma adeus
Que eu já vou-me embora
Eu morava no fundo d'água
Não sei quando eu voltarei
Eu sou canoeiro

Vou remando minha canoa
Lá pro poço do pesqueiro
Ô beira mar, adeus dona
Adeus riacho de areia

Procurando amor de longe
Que de perto eu já deixei
Ô beira mar, adeus dona
Adeus riacho de areia

Violeiros do Brasil
  by em 01/09/2009 [Youtube]:
'Beira mar' de domínio público.concerto de lançamento do projeto "Violeiros do Brasil", no Chevrolet Hall, Belo Horizonte, em 8 de maio de 2009. Participação de Adelmo Arcoverde, Almir Sater, Braz da Viola, Ivan Vilela, Passoca, Paulo Freire, Pena Branca, Pereira da Viola, Roberto Corrêa, Tavinho Moura, Zé Mulato & Cassiano.
direção musical: Myriam Taubkin
direção executiva: Gabriel Paiva
video cenário: Luiz Duva

There's a hole in the boat!

  

Friday, January 06, 2012

Helena


Show in São Paulo, 1994 — 70 years old

Helena Meirelles
* Bataguassu, 13 de agosto, 1924   † Presidente Epitacio, 28 de setembro, 2005

Where the waters meet

From the 2009 show Violeiros do Brasil that I had the priviledge to go to.

 Encontro das Águas, by Tavinho Moura,
with Tavinho Moura and Almir Sater