Being Alive

I am alive.
Strange things happen. The world moves all the time. Nothing is static. Life is amazing!
One day your kid is jumping around the nearest park, laughing loudly, and your only concern is to be around to be sure he is safe. Next he is already 14, sometimes talkative wanting to tell you his opinion about the world's social issues and sometimes he barely says hello and wants to stay in his bedroom.
One day your partner is there complaining about the light you left on in the corridor or the way you organised the stuff in the kitchen and next, he is gone, not even to an apartment in the same city, nor to another country, but to a much longer journey we all once will have to deal with.
Now, I am here. With plenty of exams to correct, lunch to prepare, a son who will be soon home for lunch and has to be driven to music school later, and there are lectures to be given in the evening. Moreover, plenty of administrative and financial issues to deal with.  The machine keeps running.
Gott sei Dank, es ist Freitag! ;-)

Escola Miguel Arcanjo: Por que escolhemos a escola Miguel Arcanjo

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CACIMBA DE MÁGOA (Official Video) FALAMANSA & GABRIEL O PENSADOR

A Falamansa se uniu ao rapper Gabriel O Pensador e, em parceria com o
instituto Ultimos Refugios e o Instituto O Canal, lançam um clipe
emocionante dirigido pela brilhante diretora alemã Ilka Westermeyer.

Cada visualização deste clipe se transforma em uma doação para um fundo
de assistência as famílias ribeirinhas com a finalidade de promover
obras sociais comunitárias. Compartilhe o link e faça a sua parte! http://goo.gl/ZHiHTb

Each view of this video will be reverted into a donation to an emergency
fund to help riverbank communities along Rio Doce with the goal of
promoting social projects.

Act now. Share the link! http://goo.gl/ZHiHTb

Buscando entender a Antroposofia

Conversando sobre antroposofia. O que é? Compilação das constatações resultantes de observações cuidadosas do mundo?

O site do Gotheanum (centro mundia da antroposofia) cita Rudolf Steiner e nos dá uma idéia da dimensão da atuação da antroposofia no mundo de hoje:

“Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge aiming to guide the spiritual element in the human being to the spiritual in the universe.”(Rudolf Steiner) 

Antroposofia é o caminho do conhecimento com o objetivo de guiar o elemento espiritual no ser humano para o elemento espiritual no universo. (Rudolf Steiner - minha tradução)

A palavra antroposofia significa, de acordo com o site: “wisdom of the human being,” ou, na realidade contemporânea: “awareness of one’s humanity.” "Sabedoria do ser humano" ou "consciência de sua humanidade".

A antroposofia propõe um caminho interior de auto-educação na busca do conhecimento sobre o espiritual. Começando pela consciência crítica moderna e nossa orientação contemporânea em relação à tecnologia e ciência. É uma espécie de estudo e educação que guia para experiências concretas das dimensões espirituais do ser humano e do mundo.

Esse conhecimento espiritual é extremamente útil nos vários campos da vida: arte, religião e ciência. Ao longo do tempo, mais de 10 mil instituições e iniciativas têm sido fundadas como o intuito de aplicar a antroposofia: escolas (normalmente chamadas de "escolas Rudolf Steiner", "escolas Waldorf" ou "escolas independentes"), moradias, oficinas, escolas trabalhando com educação curativa e terapia social, clínicas médicas e terapêuticas, companias farmacêuticas, fazendas biodinâmicas, bancos, escolas de arte, grupos de teatro, negócios, prâticas de arquitetura, etc. Essas instituições são ligadas ao Gotheanum devido à sua base comum na antroposofia.

(O outro) diario do Olivier ;): Curiosidades Brasileiras

Impressoes de um francês que está morando em Belo Horizonte: (O outro) diario do Olivier ;): Curiosidades Brasileiras: Aqui são umas das minhas observações, as vezes um pouco exageradas, sobre o Brasil. Nada serio. Aqui no Brasil, tudo se organiza em fi...

I Encontro Brasil de Pais Waldorf: Programação

 Adoraria estar lá para discutir "O futuro do Movimento de Pais Waldorf".

I Encontro Brasil de Pais Waldorf: Programação: Dia 25 de outubro 17h - R ecepção e acolhimento dos participantes; 18h - Palestra de abertura: "O que nossos filhos esperam...

Meu Planeta - Instituto Ecovida São Miguel II com Igor Cerri

mudando hábitos e vivendo de maneira mais ecológica...

Steve Jobs - One Last Thing - PBS

2026 We build tomorrow | Construïm el demà | Construimos el mañana

maravilhosa essa animação da construção da Sagrada Familia de Gaudi.
wonderful animation, showing the construction of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia... it seems to be blooming.

I Encontro Brasil de Pais Waldorf: Um convite ao exercício da maternidade/paternidade...

I Encontro Brasil de Pais Waldorf: Um convite ao exercício da maternidade/paternidade...: Nos dias 25, 26 e 27 de outubro de 2013 a Viver Escola Waldorf de Bauru sediará o Primeiro Encontro Brasil de Pais Waldorf. A ideia de ...

Patrus - Prefeito de Ação, Coração e Inovação

Change.org|How to Start a Petition

Esse homem tem alma!!!

Berzé HQ: patrus2

Let's make peace not war...

Nós te amamos - Iran e Israel

How the Israeli and Iranian people are telling the world and their governments that they don't want a war.

Google LatLong: A new frontier for Google Maps: mapping the indoor...

Perdido no aeroporto? Pouco tempo pra conexao entre voos e voce nao sabe onde ir? Que tal pedir ajuda ao Google LatLong no seu celular? Veja mais informacoes e videos no blog oficial do Google:

Google LatLong: A new frontier for Google Maps: mapping the indoor...: (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog ) “Where am I?” and “What’s around me?” are two questions that cartographers, and Google Maps, strive to answer. With Google Maps’ “My Location” feature, which shows your location as a blue dot, you can see where you are on the map to avoid walking the wrong direction on city streets, or to get your bearings if you’re hiking an unfamiliar trail. Google Maps also displays additional details, such as places, landmarks and geographical features, to give you context about what’s nearby. And now, Google Maps for Android enables you to figure out where you are and see where you might want to go when you’re indoors.

Scotch pancakes with banana & maple syrup recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food

Before leaving Scotland, I thought I should learn how to make Scottish pancakes, one of my favourites! They are so yummy... The recipe I got from the BBC site is great and I am sharing it here.
Small suggestions are: use self-raising flour and let it rest for 5 to 10 minutes before frying; add different flavours to it if you feel adventurous, such as cinnamon or something savoury.

Scotch pancakes with banana & maple syrup recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food

Ingredients

• 125g flour
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• 1 egg
• 300ml milk
• butter , for frying
• 1 tbsp golden caster sugar
• 4 bananas
• maple syrup , to serve

Method

1. Put the flour, baking powder, egg, milk and sugar in a large jug then whiz with a hand-held blender until smooth (or just whisk together in a bowl).
2. Heat a non-stick frying pan (add a little butter if you need) and pour in small amounts of batter. Once the top of the pancake has bubbled and set, flip with a palette knife and cook on the other side. Repeat until all the batter is used.
3. Stack the pancakes in a pile, slice the bananas and add to the plate. Drizzle with maple syrup and serve with Greek yoghurt or vanilla ice cream and extra maple syrup.

Per serving

182 kcalories, protein 4.3g, carbohydrate 34.4g, fat 3.9 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 1g, salt 0.3 g

Recipe from olive magazine, December 2005.

Fish

Fish: Add a touch of nature to your page with these hungry little fish. Watch them as they follow your mouse hoping you will feed them by clicking the surface of the water.

Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks - life - 05 September 2011 - New Scientist

Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks - life - 05 September 2011 - New Scientist

Quantum physics as the whole quantum theory is something fascinating. In this New Scientist article, Mark Buchanan discusses how quantum logic can be applied in other areas of knowledge. The whole issue of contextuality has a lot to do with so many other areas such as language, learning, knowledge exchange... As Diederick Aerts, a physicist at the Free University of Brussels said: "The structure of human conceptual knowledge is quantum-like because context plays a fundamental role." Quantum theory defies the ordinary logic, with particles frequently occupying two or more places at the same time... Hurray! Quantum theory may help us free ourselves from the constraints and limitations of the old traditional logic and its consequent limitations. Exciting times where new ideas and possibilities can flourish...

Friends of the Earth: The Big Green Bike Ride

6-11 May 2012

• Cycle London to Edinburgh
• 500 miles in six days
• Go the distance or join in for a day (eg London to Cambridge)

This will certainly be good fun and for a great cause: raising money for Friends of the Earth.

Friends of the Earth: The Big Green Bike Ride

Our Planning Course is the 1st in Scotland and the 5th in the UK!

The School of the Built Environment at the Heriot-Watt University was very successful in the National Students' Survey. The results published today show:

• our Planning (Urban Studies) course is the first in Scotland and fifth in the whole of the United Kingdom.
• Civil Engineering is the first in Scotland and fourth in the UK. 
• Building (Construction Management) is the second in Scotland and 8th in the UK. Architectural Engineering is the 2nd in Scotland and twenth in the UK.

Great to know that our Urban Studies students are happy with the courses. :-)

Mies van der Rohe - Visions Of Space 1/7 (Less is More)

A very good documentary although I don't agree with everything Robert Hughes says, especially about the New National Gallery (Neue Nationalgalerie) in Berlin.