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Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs and Englishmen – Please Give Peace A Chance (LIVE) HD – YouTube

The greatest ever live and wonderful anthem…

Cuando miro las sombras en las fotografías antiguas

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Sé que vivieron, sé que existieron, sé que rieron y lloraron. No fueron sueños ni fantasmas. No son parte de mi imagimación. Sus sombras, en los retratos, son huellas efímeras, constancia de que fueron reales. No estamos solos. Algo queda de nosotros cuando nos vamos. Tal vez, las sombras que dejaron son pruebas para que nosotros, al mirarlas años más tarde, aprendamos que la existencia es pasajera. Quizá se trata de poemas ocultos, pinturas con claroscuros, musica con pausas y sentidos.

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga.

En ocasiones, cuando reviso fotografías antiguas, me causan asombro e inquietud las sombras que proyectaron la gente y las cosas de entonces. Quedaron atrapadas, con los personajes y los objetos, en los retratos que pierden color y textura conforme transcurren los días y los años. Sombras, después de todo, que son cosntancia de…

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Obama didn’t keep millions of classified White House documents | AP News

Obama administration records are exclusively held and maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration, the federal agency confirmed on Friday. Millions of unclassified documents were transferred after Obama left office to a NARA facility in Chicago, but neither Obama’s personal foundation nor the facility set to house his presidential memorabilia have control over those papers. Source: Obama didn’t keep millions of classified White House documents | AP News

Scotland to be first country to provide free period products | News | DW | 14.08.2022

Scotland will become the first country in the world to protect the right to access free period products with a new law which is set to go into effect on Monday.

The Scottish parliament introduced the change by unanimously passing the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act in November 2020. The legislation made it a legal right to have free access to sanitary products in public buildings.

At the time, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon praised the “groundbreaking legislation” and said it was important for women and girls.

Source: Scotland to be first country to provide free period products | News | DW | 14.08.2022

Cecília Meireles

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Talvez nem crisólita fosse…

As pedras sempre enganam tanto!

Há muitos aleives na noite…

Havia espiões em cada canto…

( Às vezes, pela mão de um homem podem brilhar gotas de prantos…)

Cecília Meireles. Romance LXIV ou De uma pedra crisólida

Cecília Meireles. Romanceiro da Inconfidência. Organização André Seffrin [13. ed.] São Paulo: Paz, 2015.

Marii Freire

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Santarém, Pá 13 de agosto de 2022

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Ancient Word of the Day: Orangutan

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Orangutan: n. Orang ‘forest’ hutan ‘person’ or forest person in Malay

Orangutans belong to the great ape family, our closest biological relatives. This familial link is reflected in the word orangutan itself, which Malay speakers today can still recognise as deriving from the phrase orang hutan, which means “forest person”.

Beloved by children and animal lovers of all ages for their gentle soulful natures and intelligence, the word Oranghutan means Orang ‘person’ hutan ‘forest. Help protect these precious beings and #Boycott4Wildlife

This term goes back over a thousand years, contrary to theconventional beliefthat this word was coined by European visitors to Indonesia in the 17th century.

Surprisingly, the oldest surviving texts to use the word orangutan do not come from Sumatra or Borneo, where orangutans live today, but from the neighbouring island of Java. One of the oldest texts to mention orangutans is the 9th-century poem

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COVID’s long shadow: Symptoms may last 2 to 18 months | CIDRAP – among children

A pair of studies published today detail long COVID, with US researchers finding that more than one in four pediatric patients hospitalized for COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) had persistent symptoms or impaired activity 2 to 4 months later, and a Norwegian study revealing that nearly half of patients with mild COVID-19 still had symptoms after 1 year. Source: COVID’s long shadow: Symptoms may last 2 to 18 months | CIDRAP