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Through the darkness and mystery – Leunig

Mude, mas comece devagar

Card by Helena Helena Hadjioannou Inside Edvard Munch Madone (1894) photo Margot Krebs Neale

MUDE

Mas comece devagar,
porque a direção é mais importante
que a velocidade.

Sente-se em outra cadeira,
no outro lado da mesa.
Mais tarde, mude de mesa.

Quando sair,
procure andar pelo outro lado da rua.
Depois, mude de caminho,
ande por outras ruas,
calmamente,
observando com atenção
os lugares por onde você passa.
Tome outros ônibus.

Mude por uns tempos o estilo das roupas.
Dê os teus sapatos velhos.
Procure andar descalço alguns dias.
Tire uma tarde inteira
para passear livremente na praia,
ou no parque,
e ouvir o canto dos passarinhos.

Veja o mundo de outras perspectivas.

Abra e feche as gavetas
e portas com a mão esquerda.
Durma no outro lado da cama.
Depois, procure dormir em outras camas.
Assista a outros programas de tv,
compre outros jornais,
leia outros livros,
Viva outros romances!

Não faça do hábito um estilo de vida.
Ame a novidade.
Durma mais tarde.
Durma mais cedo.
Aprenda uma palavra nova por dia
numa outra língua.
Corrija a postura.
Coma um pouco menos,
escolha comidas diferentes,
novos temperos, novas cores,
novas delícias.

Tente o novo todo dia.O novo lado,
o novo método,
o novo sabor,
o novo jeito,
o novo prazer,
o novo amor.
A nova vida.
Tente.
Busque novos amigos.
Tente novos amores.
Faça novas relações.
Almoce em outros locais,
vá a outros restaurantes,
tome outro tipo de bebida
compre pão em outra padaria.
Almoce mais cedo,
jante mais tarde, ou vice-versa.
Escolha outro mercado,
outra marca de sabonete,
outro creme dental.
Tome banho em novos horários.
Use canetas de outras cores.
Vá passear em outros lugares.

Ame muito,
cada vez mais,
de modos diferentes.

Troque de bolsa,
de carteira,
de malas.
Troque de carro.
Compre novos óculos,
escreva outras poesias.
Jogue os velhos relógios,
quebre delicadamente
esses horrorosos despertadores.

Abra conta em outro banco.
Vá a outros cinemas,
outros cabeleireiros,
outros teatros,
visite novos museus.
Mude.

Lembre-se de que a Vida é uma só.
Arrume um outro emprego,
uma nova ocupação,
um trabalho mais light,
mais prazeroso,
mais digno,
mais humano.

Se você não encontrar razões para ser livre,
invente-as.

Seja criativo.

E aproveite para fazer uma viagem despretensiosa,
longa, se possível sem destino.
Experimente coisas novas.
Troque novamente.
Mude, de novo.
Experimente outra vez.
Você certamente conhecerá coisas melhores
e coisas piores,
mas não é isso o que importa.
O mais importante é a mudança,
o movimento,
o dinamismo,
a energia.

Só o que está morto não muda!

Edson Marques.

CHANGE

Mais commence doucement,
Parce que la direction
Est plus importante que la vitesse.

Assieds-toi sur une autre chaise,
De l’autre côté de la table.
Plus tard, change de table.

Quand tu sors,
Essaie de marcher de l’autre côté de la rue.
Puis, change de chemin
Prends d’autres rues,
Calmement,
Observant attentivement
Les lieux où tu passes.
Prends d’autres autobus.

Change pour un temps ton style vestimentaire
Donne tes vielles chaussures.
Essaie de marcher pieds-nus certains jours.
Prends un après-midi entier
Pour te promener librement sur la plage,
Ou dans un parc,
Et entendre le chant des oiseaux.

Vois le monde sous de nouvelles perspectives.

Ouvre et ferme les tiroirs
et les portes de la main gauche,
Dors de l’autre côté du lit,
Puis, essaie de dormir dans d’autres lits.
Regarde d’autres programmes de télévision,
Achète d’autres journaux,
Lis d’autres livres,
Vis d’autres romances !

Ne fais pas de l’habitude un style de vie.
Aime la nouveauté
Dors plus tard.
Dors plus tôt.
Apprends un nouveau mot chaque jour
Dans une langue étrangère.
Corrige ton maintien.
Mange un peu moins,
Choisis des nourritures différentes,
De nouvelles épices, de nouvelles couleurs,
De nouveaux délices.

Essaye du nouveau tous les jours. L’autre côté,
Une autre méthode,
Une autre saveur,
Une nouvelle manière,
Un plaisir nouveau,
Un nouvel amour.
Une vie nouvelle.
Essaie.
Cherche de nouveaux amis
Essaie de nouveaux amours.
Etablie de nouvelles relations.
Déjeune dans des lieux nouveaux,
Va dans de nouveaux restaurants,
Prends des boissons d’un style nouveau,
Achète ton pain dans une autre boulangerie.
Déjeune plus tôt,
Dine plus tard, ou l’inverse.
Choisis un marché différents,
Une autre marque de savon,
Une autre pâte dentifrice.
Prends un bain à d’autres horaires.
Utilise des stylos de couleurs différentes.
Promènes-toi dans des lieux différents.

Aime beaucoup,
Chaque fois plus,
Différemment.

Change de sac
De portefeuille
De valises.
Change de voiture.
Achète de nouvelles lunettes,
Ecris d’autres poésies.
Jette les vieilles montres
Casse délicatement
Ces horribles réveils.

Ouvre un compte dans une autre banque.
Va dans d’autres cinémas,
D’autres coiffeurs,
D’autres théâtres,
Visite d’autres musées.
Change.

Souviens-toi qu’il n’y a qu’une Vie.
Trouve un autre emploi,
Une nouvelle occupation,
Un travail plus léger,
Plus plaisant,
Plus digne,
Plus humain.

Si tu ne trouves pas de raisons d’être libre,
Invente-les.

Sois créatif.

Et profites-en pour faire un voyage sans prétention
Long, si possible sans destination.
Expérimente des choses nouvelles.
Change de manière toujours nouvelle
Et change encore
Expérimente une fois de plus.
Tu connaîtras certainement des choses meilleures
Et des choses pires
Mais ce n’est pas ce qui importe.
Le plus important est le changement
Le mouvement
Le dynamisme
L’énergie.

C’est seulement quand on est mort que l’on ne bouge plus.

Edson Marques.

traduction Margot Krebs Neale

Joyeux Noël!

Marvel in the gift of the world

Let your heart be filled with wonder

A major project

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Is it time or too late?

This year was hectic so I decided not to make a calendar but on turning the last page of the 2016 Calendar, I thought I would miss it so I sat down and worked hard.
Some friends were really pleased, they too, had thought they would miss it.

It may seem out of date to have a paper calendar but I remember many years ago missing an important appointment and the elderly and wise man I had let down telling me You have a calendar, you write in it and you put it where you take your meals.

Then of course it has to be beautiful!

Jamais je n’ai rêvé d’un tel bonheur quand j’étais le vilain petit canard.

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Cards at Christmas Time

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Planning a house

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Songs set to photographs: a challenge

Continuing to put Malcolm Guite's beautiful songs on YouTube with photographs.
His songs are so full of images, it seems a real challenge.
But I do what I did with some of his poems before, I just listen to the feelings that those images summon up for me and then choose photographs in what I have. Sometimes I will take a picture specifically or make a composite picture but I try to not make it too busy so the beauty of the song remains central.

Redemption Song (A song for Ruth)

Sing a song of sowing
Carrying the seed
A song of hopeful planting
To meet a future need
Sing a song of letting go
And falling to the ground
Of burying that feels like loss
Still waiting to be found

There are no songs of famine
Hunger has no voice
The poor must scavenge what they can
While the rich are spoiled for choice
The stones of fear and anger
Will strike you from behind
Hunger hates the stranger
And cleaves to his own kind

Sing a song of exile
Loneliness and loss
A song of broken bridges
Nobody can cross
A song of desperation
For a word you can understand
A song of fearful labour
On someone else’s land

Then sing a song of marriage
The grace of bride and groom
The fruitful vine around the door
Joy within the room
A song of love and longing
For the children yet to be
A quiver-full of future hopes
Aimed at eternity

Sing a song of mourning
The shadows and the tombs
The bitterness of broken hearts
And disappointed wombs
Sing a song of empty words
And unexpressed despair
Of reaching out at midnight
For the one who isn’t there

Sing a song of waiting
Weeping on the earth
A song of expectation
Longing for new birth
Sing a song of patience
Of watching through the night
Sing those hours before the dawn
Then sing the coming light

Sing a song of harvest
Of one who bind the sheaves
And one who gleans along the edge
The good another leaves
Sing a song of winnowing
And taking into store
Of Barley heaped like glowing gold
All on the threshing floor

Sing out before the Lord of Life
Your songs of joy and pain
Sing of the years the locusts ate
That cannot come again
Sing to Him your hopes and fears
Your tales of right and wrong
And He will make your voice a part
Of His Redemption Song

©Malcolm Guite 2011
From the album "Dancing through the fire"
Cambridge Riffs Records
www.cambridgeriffs.co.uk/records

PHOTOGRAPHS
©Margot Krebs Neale
www.margot-krebs-neale.co.uk