03/05/2020
DOORS WITH HISTORY AND SOUL / PORTAS COM HISTÓRIA E ALMA
Photo: Coimbra city, Portugal, door
I like the architecture and design of doors and gates.
Sometimes I find myself photographing them and later in an exercise of imagination, painting them again, framing them in a renovated space, painting them again, to receive a new family and inhabitants, doors with bright colors or arts. Doors tell so many stories ... they are the business cards of the people who live there.
The "doors" of our life pass, signify new challenges through unknown territory, adventures and tests, initiations for those who dare to open them.
Home doors, mean the arrival or departure of those who give life to the home, mean guarding, closing, protecting, warming and welcoming.
Doors can add hope or bitterness, fears or joys, the future and the past that pass through them ...
Doors are always unknown, beautiful or aged by time, they are like those who live in them and who one day go out through them not to return.
Have you noticed how doors and gates tell us so many things and differ from each other?
How are the doors of your house, your body and your soul?
PMS, «Diaries & Notes»
Gosto da arquitetura e do design de portas e portões.
Por vezes dou comigo a fotografa-las e posteriormente num exercicio de imaginacao, pintando-as de novo, enquadrando-as num espaço renovado, pintando-as de novo, para receberem uma nova familia e habitantes, portas com cores vivas ou artes. Portas contam tantas estórias... são os cartões de visita das pessoas que ali habitam.
As "portas" de passagem da nossa vida, significam novos desafios por território desconhecido, aventuras e testes, iniciações a quem as ousa abrir.
Portas de casa, significam a chegada ou a partida daqueles que dão vida à morada, significam o guardar, o fechar, o proteger, o aquecer e acolhimento.
Portas podem agregar esperança ou amargura, medos ou alegrias, o futuro e o passado que por elas passam...
Portas são sempre incógnitas, belas ou envelhecidas pelo tempo, são como aqueles que nelas moram e que um dia por elas saem para não voltarem.
Já repararam como portas e portões nos dizem tantas coisas e se diferenciam entre si?
Como são e estão as portas da sua casa, do seu corpo e da sua alma?
PMS, «Diários & Notas»
23/09/2019
05/09/2019
OPTION IS HAPPINESS !
"When faced with an option, decision or opportunity, choose in favor of your pasions"
"Sempre que seja confrontado com uma decisão, uma opção ou uma oportunidade, escolha a favor das suas paixões."
Optemos pelo que nos faz feliz !
@pms, pensamentos e reflexoes
Let's decide to choose what makes us happy !
@pms, thoughts and reflections
"Sempre que seja confrontado com uma decisão, uma opção ou uma oportunidade, escolha a favor das suas paixões."
By Janet Bray Attwood / Chris Attwood, writer's, inspirational speaker's
http://thepassiontest.com/
Optemos pelo que nos faz feliz !
@pms, pensamentos e reflexoes
Let's decide to choose what makes us happy !
@pms, thoughts and reflections
03/09/2019
02/09/2019
COHOUSING - THE FUTURE IS CO-LIVING
Just as a home is more than its walls and windows, cohousing
homes are more than standard condos. To the people who create, join and live
cohousing communities, they join an active and involved community of neighbors
who know and care about each other and together live more consciously of one
another and the earth. Cohousing has grown over the past 25 years to over 160
communities nationwide and the communities range from urban, suburban, or
rural; new construction or repurposed; senior-specific or intergenerational.
Successful communities generally share 5 key characteristics that may tempt you
to consider a cohousing community for your next move.
1. FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILTY
A core value of cohousing is environmental sustainability.
This is reflected in preserved open space, in utilizing green building
materials and techniques, minimizing the intrusion of cars, and the prevalence
of community renewable energy systems. The sense of community created in these
neighborhoods is the secret ingredient of sustainability, enabling people to
have a collective impact, being good stewards together with their neighbors.
Such a lively neighborhood means residents can socialize close to home, and
parents can reduce the endless back-and-forth of shuttling their kids to
playdates.
2. FACES NOT FENCES
3) OWNER-DEVELOPERS
Cohousing communities are recognized by certain design
features, layered over a strong social fabric. A big benefit of cohousing stems
from the sharing culture bolstered by generous common amenities. Cohousing
features a common house (the heart of the community, with a large kitchen,
dining area, guest rooms and more), and perhaps a shared garden, workshop, yoga
room, pool or kids room. Communities are generally 20-40 homes, designed and
self-managed by residents. The result is people-focused, with cars kept on the
periphery and buildings grouped to leave green space for all to enjoy.
Financing is undertaken by the future residents, who act as
"owner-developers" and provide the capital to fund the design costs
and property purchase. Yet there’s nothing to fear when it comes to acquiring
loans; in fact, Fannie Mae has language in its FAQ’s specifying that cohousing
homes qualify for loans just as any other condominium development would. The
project is built by means of a bank construction loan, paid off as individual
residents obtain mortgages. Since residents buy-in to their neighborhood early
on, turnover tends to be low.
4) TRUE NEIGHBORLINESS
Ever been ready to bake a cake and realized you're one stick
of butter short, meaning a 20-minute drive to the store? In cohousing, your
neighbor will probably have both butter and some baking advice. Cohousing is
carefully designed to create a socially rich and interconnected community, a
true "neighborhood" in the old-fashioned sense of the word. However,
residents do not have a shared economy or a common set of beliefs. Individual
homes have all the traditional amenities including private kitchens, yet most
communities are proud to offer resident-cooked dinner rotations in the common
house several times a week.
5) SAFE AND SECURE
"Eyes on the Street" are the best security system
you can have. Living in a community where everyone is a familiar face provides
an extra layer of safety. Children can run freely and knock on their playmates’
doors, gaining a unique level of independence and trust with neighbors. Even in
large cities, cohousing experiences little crime and offers safe and supportive
living."
article in Good Trade, by Mary Claus from Fair Oaks EcoHousing,
22/08/2019
13/08/2019
LET'S DO A BETTER WORLD !
It's time for each human begin to makeup for It is time for each human being to roll up their sleeves and contribute in each moment with actions of conscious supremacy creating the recycling of the old destructive paradigms for the construction of the sustainability and balance of the species in this beloved Planet!
Hari, @maripauls Blog
11/07/2019
A natureza e a dádiva
"In order to receive everything, it is necessary to open hands and give."
Taisen Deshimaru Roshi, Master Zen art, Japanese (1914-1984)
I think this is the essential secret of all nature - a gift!
Let us have an excellent day wisely taking advantage of every moment that is provided to us.
PMS, «Diaries / Notes»
"Para tudo receber, torna-se necessário abrir as mãos e dar."
Taisen Deshimaru Roshi, Mestre arte Zen, Japonês (1914-1984)
Julgo que este é o segredo essencial de toda a natureza - dádiva!
Tenhamos um excelente dia aproveitando com sabedoria cada momento que nos é proporcionado.
PMS, "Diários & Notas"
01/07/2019
12/06/2019
O ESPAÇO E A FORMA / SPACE AND SHAPE, James C. Hunter, Quote
"Se não mudares de direcção, terminarás exactamente no sitio de onde partiste."
in the "The Servant", by James Hynter, writer and trainer
#Quote
17/05/2019
07/04/2019
03/04/2019
COERÊNCIA / COHERENCE
Photo by Christopher Jobson, designer
A Coerência
"Assim que nascemos colocam-nos uma roupa que nos aqueça, aconchegue ou torne apenas mais bonitos, de acordo com as condições, cultura e expectativas do ambiente onde “aterramos”.
De qualquer forma, já nascemos com uma pele.
Ainda no útero começamos a construir o nosso limite, a fronteira entre o dentro e o fora e, mais uma vez, de acordo com as características – temperatura, sabor, acidez, emoções – desse primeiro mundo redondo.
E assim vamos indo enquanto crianças, colocando pele em cima de pele, roupa em cima de roupa - ainda com muito pouca possibilidade de questionamento ou contestação - distorcendo, dissolvendo, reprimindo, esquecendo a nossa essência original.
E depois crescemos e começamos a tornarmo-nos naquilo somos, ou vamos sendo, ou naquilo que sempre fomos e deixamos de ser pelo simples facto de existir.
Vamos sendo aquilo que sempre fomos. Largando roupa e trocando de pele de tempos a tempos.
A mim a coerência, a permanência, nunca me soaram bem ao ouvido.
As convicções cheias, as crenças inquestionáveis, os seres prontos e acabados, cheios de coerência estática, plana, inerte.
A imobilidade assusta-me, ela sim é morte, e não a própria morte.
“Nós não somos, vamos nos tornando”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in "Mulheres que Correm com os Lobos"
“A mudança ocorre quando a pessoa se torna aquilo que ela é, e não quando tenta tornar-se o que não é.”
Alexander Lowen, in "Uma Vida para o Corpo"
#quote do Blog da Sara Anahory
A coragem de descobrir e assumir quem realmente somos, organiza e transforma a consciencia e a coerencia do nosso corpo.
The courage to discover and assume who we really are organize and transforms our body consciousness and coherence.
@pms, #thoughts, #reflections #coaching #pnl, #psychotherapy
24/02/2019
14/02/2019
15/11/2018
John Denver Perhaps Love - Live 1982 Apollo Theatre, London
"Perhaps Love"
"Perhaps love is like a resting place
a shelter from the storm
it exists to give you comfort
it is there to keep you warm
and in those times of trouble
when you are most alone
the memory of love will bring you home
Perhaps love is like a window
perhaps an open door
it invites you to come close
it wants to show you more
and even if you lose yourself
and don¡¯t know what to do
the memory of love will see you through
Oh, love to some is like a cloud
to some as strong as steel
for some a way of living
for some a way to feel
and some say love is holding on
and some say letting go
and some say love is everything
and some say they don't know
Perhaps love is like the ocean
full of conflict, full of change
like a fire when it's cold outside
or thunder when it rains
if i should live forever
and all my dreams come true
my memories of love will be of you."
John Denver, singer and songwriter
American died in a plane crash in California at age 53
@pms, #songs #soul
08/10/2018
05/04/2018
10/02/2018
AWAKENING AND LOVING THE STORMS
"... É o despertar de algo no fundo dos fundos da alma.
Quem o sente não o pode expressar em palavras.
E quem não o sente, não poderá nunca conhecê-lo através de palavras.
Faço votos para que aprendas a amar as tempestades em vez de fugir delas."
by Khalil Gibran
Porque só na ousadia da travessia das tempestades vais conhecer o infinito que és!
Porque só na ousadia da travessia das tempestades vais conhecer o infinito que és!
Também eu faço votos para que aprendas a amar as tempestades...
by Maripaul's
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