Next year you'll discover magic. You'll survive German classes even though you should have continued with French. For more reasons than one. The boy-you're-desperately-in-love-with-but-doesn't-know-you-exist-because-you've-only-met-twice-and-barely-spoke-to-each-other will fall desperately in love with you too someday. In the meantime, there will be other boys and your heart will break more often than you'd like. But you will learn. … Continue reading #tweetyour16yearoldself
Isidora & empty chairs
Praise to Liu Xiaobo and all the Chinese who risk their freedom for human rights. It's heartbreaking to hear Tiananmen Square protesters saying how, in order to protect their children, they will never be able to tell them what they did or that they lost an arm because they were beaten so badly by the … Continue reading Isidora & empty chairs
Isidora & Leslie Nielsen
Dr. Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it? Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious. Dr. Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley. Dr. Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital. Elaine Dickinson: A … Continue reading Isidora & Leslie Nielsen
Isidora & Pirates
They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me … Continue reading Isidora & Pirates
Isidora & the colour purple
My mother loved the colour purple. It wasn't just her favourite colour, it was one of her favourite things. She loved purple & the outdoors. The smell of the sea. Camping. Bike riding. Her biggest passion was the visual arts and crafts (for which she had no formal training), though she worked for an American … Continue reading Isidora & the colour purple
Isidora & the scientist
There is nothing cooler than growing up with a geek dad. I had heard of Douglas Adams and Alan Moore before Hollywood got hold of them and had long chats over books and the universe next to a huge office poster of Batman. Of course, when you have someone constantly trying to get you to … Continue reading Isidora & the scientist
Isidora & The Boy Who Lived
In the longer-than-necessary The Order of the Phoenix, Harry asks Luna why are they the only ones who can see Thestrals, a species of skeleton-like winged horses that everyone else deems invisible. "They can only be seen by people who've seen death,” she replies. This little sentence sums up what I see as the special … Continue reading Isidora & The Boy Who Lived
Cosmology (pt. 1)
I. Light light said the Word was there not Spirit before Matter came, though they say the clay was molded first? Light life blew the Breath that condensed to make flesh from the breast of the Earth now the Mother of all birth. II. There is always a serpent hissing up your spine all the … Continue reading Cosmology (pt. 1)
Isidora & Characters
Paraphrasing some iconic author whose name I can’t remember speaking to the Paris Review, great characters are not photographs - they come to life from scratch. I do use sketches, drafts of portraits from the living, which I then try to mold and dress up according to their character potential. I’ll add wrinkles to their … Continue reading Isidora & Characters
Isidora & Philip
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions. Philip Pullman, Carnegie Medal Acceptance Speech
Isidora & the Paris Review
You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown. William Kennedy, 1989
it aches my love
it aches my love it aches your silence pressing against my chest my flesh ripping open wounds tiny and big closing and healed it burns my love it burns flames and heat scrapping the surface of some inner organ the hidden place where pain is felt and I try my love to keep my love … Continue reading it aches my love
Isidora & New Discoveries
Thank you BBC for showing me that Brian Griffin is more than a cartoon dog.
Isidora Keys
I find myself moving my fingers along the PC keyboard the same way I would dance them around my now dead Kawai. Not the same thing.
Isidora & the Titles
Isidora is starting to think that post titles in the third person make her feel like a character (which she is) in a children's book (where she isn't).
Isidora & the Internet
As I write this, Facebook has been down for about an hour and everyone is going insane (on Twitter). A couple of days ago, Twitter got hacked and the online edition of BBC News published a story on it in what felt like 10 minutes later. While I predict that, at this rate, the internet … Continue reading Isidora & the Internet
Isidora Burns for Hawksley
At the time I was hungry for Paris and its bohemian sounds: I wanted accordions and violins and cabaret pianos in a 3/4 beat & Sarah Slean lead me to him. Everything I read spoke of this extravagant, flamboyant artist, but I came to see something very different. Yes, he's astoundingly prolific and, yes, he's … Continue reading Isidora Burns for Hawksley
Isidora’s Birth
Black phoenix born anew (hatches, hatches) orphan bird tries a flap and then two.
control
Knowing what you've got, knowing what you need, knowing what you can do without - that's inventory control. Revolutionary Road
sinal dos tempos
Facebook killed the blogger star.
e é em dias como este que não me apetece fazer mais nada na vida
Design: Rui Santana - Colecção Outono/Inverno 2009/2010 Directora de produção: Joana Monteiro Fotos: Marta Tomé
geração Magalhães
Acredito que, no meu tempo, os professores tinham mais do que vontade de pegar em dois ou três alunos e afastá-los da turma para conseguirem dar aulas. Eu tenho vontade de pegar em dois ou três alunos de cada turma e dar-lhes aulas só a eles.
the storyteller
Está sempre aqui.
a EB do Amor
O Ricardo (da turma D) contou-me que a Nicole (da turma C) gosta do Alexandre (da turma D) e a Nicole disse-me que a Beatriz (da turma C) lhe disse que o Alexandre também gosta dela, mas ela não tem bem a certeza. Eu cá prefiro o Miguel.
Isidora Works 