Monthly Archives: June 2022
Be yourself!

Be patient, be crazy, be honest, be happy
Be motivated, be outstanding, be healthy
Be silly, be curious, be welcome, be peaceful
Be amazed, be overwhelming, be grateful
Be wise (but not too much!), be amused, be natural
Be loved, be wishful, be generous, be special
Be blessed, be cool, be telorant, be thankful
Be in love, be complete, be human, be worth it
Since you cannot be anyone else…
Just be yourself!
Filipa Moreira da Cruz
Parashat B’Haalotchah פָּרָשַׁת בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ, & Double Standards
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
This week’s Torah portion, Parashat B’Ha’alotchah ( בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ), is the 36th (36/54 or 52, depending on the year: this year, 5782, we read 54 separate parshiot…) reading in the annual cycle, and the third parashah in the book of B’midbar/Numbers.
So, this week, readers of the full reading, aka the Annual Cycle, will discuss the punishment of Miriam for having gossiped about her brother’s wife. But she was doing the gossiping with her other brother, Aaron: so why does he get off scott free? (and I’m sure there were more creative punishments that would not have rendered him unfit for his ritual duties…)
Side comment, on grammar: I love the derivation of this week’s title of the parashah from Aliyah/Oleh/Olah/LaAlot -to go or lift up, so that the word B’hAalotchah can mean upon your lifting up (… of something…).
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Love gives us more
Love, caring, and compassion give us, and the world around us, way more than prejudice, anger, resentment, frustration, and fears.

Nise da Silveira
” Não se curem além da conta. Gente curada demais é gente chata. Todo mundo tem um pouco de loucura. Vou lhes fazer um pedido: Vivam a imaginação, pois ela é a nossa realidade mais profunda. Felizmente, eu nunca convivi com pessoas ajuizadas.
É necessário se espantar, se indignar e se contagiar, só assim é possível mudar a realidade…
Nise da Silveira
Marii Freire Pereira
https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
Imagem: pinterest/ Flickr
Santarém, Pá 18 de junho de 2022

Eleonor Roosevelt
Vivaldi translation: ”The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
” O futuro pertence àqueles que acreditam na beleza de seus sonhos.”
Eleonor Roosevelt
Marii Freire Pereira
https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
Imagem: pinterest/DON’T WAIT…LIFE GOES FASTER THAN YOU THINK
Santarém, Pá 18 de junho de 2022

♫ Touch Me ♫ (Redux)
I have played this one other time, but it’s been a couple of years ago. The Doors were never my favourite band, but they had 3-4 that I liked a lot, and this is one such!
Doors guitarist Robby Krieger wrote this song as “Hit Me,” based on fights he had with his girlfriend. They lyric was, “C’mon, hit me, I’m not afraid.” In a rare show of restraint, Jim Morrison insisted on changing it to Touch Me. At the end of the song, Morrison chants “Stronger than dirt!” The line is from an Ajax commercial popular at the time where a white knight rides around destroying dirt. The last four chords of the song were also lifted from the commercial.
Many critics claimed this was a sellout, as the horn and string sections were not typical of The Doors. The band admitted they were trying to broaden their…
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Love gives us more

Love, caring, and compassion give us, and the world around us, way more than prejudice, anger, resentment, frustration, and fears.
Love gives us more
Saturday Surprise Tidbits

I couldn’t settle on a topic for this week’s Saturday Surprise, so I’m just tossing in a few odds ‘n ends I came across that made me smile, in hopes …
Saturday Surprise Tidbits

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