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Leta

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About Me

Friends and family are my world. Stubborn and focused. Optimistic... most times :-)
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My Interests

Books, Shakespeare, art, music, dance, nature, life, plants, gastronomy, CATS! native-american culture, poetry, Pre-Raphaelites, human rights, museums...

I'd like to meet:

the present Dalai Lama

Music:

Heavy Metal, Rock Opera, Opera, Jazz, Irish, Folk, Celtic, QUEEN, LED ZEPPELIN, BEATLES, Jack Johnson, A.O.L., Fado, Portuguese, rap, ethnic, Blues, rock... and good musicals. Andrés Stagnaro! Good Portuguese Music! Faro Luso
.. 'Encosta-te a mim' - Jorge Palma
..Xaile
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Queen - Don't stop me now
..Zach Gill & Jack JohnsonNever Too Long - live at Hard Rock Café

Movies:

Out of Africa, everything with and by Clint Eastwood, most movies with Meryl Streep, idem with Michelle Pfeiffer, Schindler's List, The Pianist, Hitchcock movies, Lord of The Rings, most classics, Harold Lloyd's silent movies, French cinema, etc...

Television:

Good series... LOST, Seinfeld, E.R., The Nine, Poirot, Sherlock Holmes :-) News, good documentaries on History, biographies, Nature, animals, the space, people, food, monuments, music, travelling, geography, Science and Technology

Books:

most 19th century English and American poetry (Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Lake Distric poets, Tennyson... )"Wuthering Heights", by Emily Bronte, everything by Lobo Antunes, Fernando Pessoa's work, Camões's Lusíadas, "Metamorphosis" by Kafka, "Espíritos da Montanha", still reading the magical "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" (S. Clarke), "The Shadow of the Wind" (Carlos Ruiz Zafón), all of Beatrix Potter's works, Saramago, "The House of The Spirits" by Isabel Allende... Books on Nature, the Cosmos, the World, History

Heroes:

Most women throughout the centuries, my friend Otilia, Peter Benenson, Madre Teresa de Calcutá, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Muhammad Yunus...

My Blog

Berlim 2008 - LAnimateur - The Animator - Der Trickzeichner

L'Animateur de Nick Hilligoss, vencedor do Festival de Berlim deste ano. ...
Posted by Leta on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:10:00 PST

Marc Chagall

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." Marc Chagall - Vitebsk, Belarus, 7th July 1887 - Saint-Paul-de-V...
Posted by Leta on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:19:00 PST

Gratidão parte III

AND HERE'S ZACH GILL! Fantastic :-)staple it together - jack johnson ...
Posted by Leta on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:28:00 PST

Gratidão parte II :-)

Na quinta-feira, depois de um dia "daqueles"e já meio zombie, fui arrastada para um concerto e ainda bem! Fiquei maravilhada. Pela boa energia, pelo profissionalismo, pelo intimismo, embora estivéssem...
Posted by Leta on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:13:00 PST

EARTH DAY - REFLECTION TIME

". . . on April 22, 1970, Earth Day was held, one of the mostremarkable happenings in the history of democracy. . . " -American Heritage Magazine, October 1993 Earth Day From Wikipedia, th...
Posted by Leta on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:26:00 PST

HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY! :-)

On Easter DayThe silver trumpets rang across the Dome:The people knelt upon the ground with awe:And borne upon the necks of men I saw,Like some great God, the Holy Lord of Rome.Priest-like, he wore a ...
Posted by Leta on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:58:00 PST

World Day of Sleep / Dia Mundial do Sono March 21st

March 21st, World Day of Sleep calls attention to sleep disordersSome interesting articles:http://going-to-sleep.info/fast/category/sleeping-g uide/http://going-to-sleep.info/fast/sleeping-guide/the-mo.. .
Posted by Leta on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:51:00 PST

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people ...
Posted by Leta on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:02:00 PST

WORLD POETRY DAY  21TH MARCH/ DIA INTERNACIONAL DA POESIA  21 DE MARÇO

World Poetry DayFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWorld Poetry Day is on March 21, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999. The pur...
Posted by Leta on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:56:00 PST

Petition Stop China’s Crackdown on Tibet

Stop China’s Crackdown on Tibet Target: The United Nations and Olympic Games Officials http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/471938946?z00m=143 60767...
Posted by Leta on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:58:00 PST