Touched by an island

Photos by Essenthia

Flores, February 2010

An island is the best analogy of both passion and dispair...

The Big Picture - Quality photography

Great photography quality galleries in "The big picture" section of The Boston Globe online

Many more photos in: www.boston.com/bigpicture/

The butterlfy effect

Acredito firmemente que nada acontece por acaso.

Tudo o que existe será sempre o resultado de um desencadear de eventos contínuo... eterno. É aí que entra a teoria do "Butterfly Effect" (Ou não seria este também um dos meus filmes preferidos de sempre)

"A butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events (something like the domino effect).

Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. While the butterfly does not "cause" the tornado in the sense of providing the energy for the tornado, it does "cause" it in the sense that the flap of its wings is an essential part of the initial conditions resulting in a tornado, and without that flap that particular tornado would not have existed."

In Wikipedia

Ways to live better, longer, happier

Move Naturally

Exercise - Moove your but!

Have Right Outlook

Slow down - Have a clear purpose

Eat Wisely

Drink some wine - Eat healthy!

Be Connected with others

Family, loved ones, community, the right tribe

Garr Reynolds via Presentation Zen

God I love this man!

"There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.

What is sacred?

Of what is the spirit made?

What is worth living for,

and what is worth dying for?

The answer to each is the same: only love."

"By seeing beyond what is visible to the eye. Now there are those, of course, who do not share my perceptions, it's true. When I say that all my woman are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the-the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are... glorious, radiant, spectacular, and perfect, because, I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me the way that they do, Don Octavio, because they sense that I search out the beauty that dwells within until it overwhelms everything else. And then they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelope me in it. So, to answer your question, I see as clear as day that this great edifice in which we find ourselves is your villa. It is your home. And as for you, Don Octavio DeFlores, you are a great lover like myself, even though you may have lost your way and your accent. Shall I continue?"

Johnny Depp in Don Juan DeMarco

With or without you

See the stone set in your eyes

See the thorn twist in your side.

I wait for you.

Sleight of hand and twist of fate

On a bed of nails she makes me wait

And I wait without you

With or without you

With or without you.

Through the storm, we reach the shore

You gave it all but I want more

And I'm waiting for you

(Will I ever get tired of listening to this song and it's amazing instrumental...

Gotta see this live in October ;)