Strawberry muffins

Strawberry Muffins ingredients list:
4 medium eggs, beaten.
3 cups of all-purpose flour.
2 ½ cups of fresh strawberries, rinsed, hulled and sliced.
2 cups of sugar.
1 ½ cups of chopped walnuts.
1 cup of vegetable oil.
1 tablespoon of cinnamon.
1 teaspoon of baking soda.
1 teaspoon of salt.

Instructions for Strawberry Muffins:
Preheat your oven to 400°F (210°C).
Lightly coat full-size muffin tins with non-stick cooking spray.
In a suitably sized bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.
In a another bowl, combine the eggs, strawberries and the vegetable oil.
Mix the contents of the two bowls together.
Gently fold in the chopped walnuts.
Fill the muffin tins about two-thirds full and bake for 15 minutes.
Allow to cool.

Não é defeito, é feitio

Um dos aspectos da desigualdade é a singularidade – isto é, não o ser este homem mais, neste ou naquele característico, que outros homens, mas o ser tão-somente diferente deles.
Fernando Pessoa

A matter of perspective?

Se la signora è colpevole, il marito non è innocente.
Provérbio italiano

The poetic idea in art

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.
Paul Delvaux

Memories

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
Kevin Arnold

The air is like a draught of wine

The air is like a draught of wine.
The undertaker cleans his sign,
The Hull express goes off the line,
When it’s raspberry time in Runcorn.

Noel Coward (1899-1973)
On With the Dance, ‘Poor Little Rich Girl’

Away from home

[Carol] Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know, a feeling came over me. It was like remembering something I’d never known before or had always been waiting for, but I didn’t know what. Maybe it was something I’d forgotten or something I’ve been missing all my life. All I can say is that I felt, at the same time, joy and sadness. But not too much sadness, because I felt alive. Yes, alive. That was the moment I fell in love with Paris. And I felt Paris fall in love with me.

Carol in “Paris je t’aime”, by Olivier Assayas and Frédéric Auburtin

Saudosismo

A própria libertinagem, sopitada nos seus letargos de estafada devassidade, tem sonhos melancólicos, saudades das impecáveis alegrias da infância.
Camilo Castelo Branco

Biclas

Sempre que vejo um adulto de bicicleta, volto a confiar no futuro da raça humana.
Henry Wells

Espírito

O álcool cria no homem um heroísmo muito superior à ideologia e à paixão; não sem razão é chamado de espírito.
G. Bona

Stop

Oh – stop
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there’s nothing in it
And you’ll ask yourself
Where is my mind

Where is my mind, Pixies

Parallel Synchronized Randomness

[Stephane] P. S. R. Parallel Synchronized Randomness. An interesting brain rarity and our subject for today. Two people walk in opposite directions at the same time and then they make the same decision at the same time. Then they correct it, and then they correct it, and then they correct it, and then they correct it, and then they correct it. Basically, in a mathematical world these two little guys will stay looped for the end of time. The brain is the most complex thing in the universe and it’s right behind the nose.

In La Science des Rêves, de Michel Gondry

Apparences guidance

Não nos contentamos com a vida que temos em nós e no nosso próprio ser: queremos viver na ideia dos outros uma vida imaginária e para isso esforçamo-nos por manter as aparências. Trabalhamos incessantemente para embelezar e conservar o nosso ser imaginário, e descuramos o verdadeiro. E se temos ou a tranquilidade, ou a generosidade, ou a felicidade, apressamo-nos a apregoá-lo, a fim de atribuir estas virtudes ao nosso outro ser, e se fosse preciso estararíamos prontos a despojar-nos delas para as juntar ao outro; de bom grado seríamos cobardes para adquirirmos a reputação de valentes.
Grande sinal do nada que somos, não nos contentarmos de uma coisa sem a outra, e trocarmos muitas vezes uma pela outra! Pois quem não morresse para conservar a sua honra seria infame.

Blaise Pascal, in “Pensamentos”

Don’t ever change

You never wear a suit of lace,
the powder’s not on your face.
You’re always wearing jeans
except on sunday.

So please don’t ever change,
no don’t you ever change.
I kind of like you
just the way you are.

Don’t ever change, The Beatles

Not just looking at the stars

Change.

CHANGE, everybody’s feeling STRANGE. Makes you wonder why the world keeps turning.

Everyday, Bon Jovi

Me, myself and I

A verdadeira liberdade é podermos tudo por nós.
Michel de Montaigne

There’s a little truth

Cheer up

Just a hopeless fantasy

Take a dive

Enjoy…
Enjoy the trash, enjoy the garbage
Enjoy the relish and waste inside
You dash to the bottom to lift your soul
It got you nothin’ but nothing left to find
Take a Dive
Take a Dive
Take a Dive

Take a dive, Green River

You’re onfire

Wandering around in a maze

Quando escrito em chinês a palavra crise compõe-se de dois caracteres: um representa perigo e o outro representa oportunidade.
John Kennedy

Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost

Passione per il mare

O mar, o mar, sempre recomeçado!
Paul Valéry

Let’s let it happen

I’ve been thinking about you

We must have been stone crazy
when we thought we were just friends,
‘Cause I miss you, baby,
And I’ve got those feelings again.
I guess I’m all confused about you
I’ve been thinking about you

I’ve been thinking about you, Londonbeat

I miss you

To see you when I wake up
is a gift I didn’t think could be real.
To know that you feel the same as I do
is a three-fold, utopian dream.
You do something to me that I can’t explain.
So would I be out of line if I said,
I miss you.
I see your picture, I smell your skin on the empty pillow next to mine.
You have only been gone ten days, but already I’m wasting away.
I know I’ll see you again
whether far or soon.
But I need you to know that I care
and I miss you.

I miss you, Incubus

Sing, sing, sing!

You’ve been waiting in the sun too long
But if you sing, sing, sing, sing, sing
For the love you bring wont mean a thing
Unless you sing, sing, sing

Sing, Travis

Hello?