cycles
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“To dispose” is the verb we forgot
“Essa canção é por você – (This song is for you)Que já cansou de escutar – (Who is tired of listening)Esteve vivo sem viver – (You were alive without living)Mas não deixou de acreditar” – (But you never stopped believing) This excerpt is part of the lyrics of a song called Balada da Contramão, by one…
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Where is this blog heading?
When this space was born, I simply called it a blog. Today I am no longer so sure that this word is enough. There is still a blog, of course! I keep writing texts, publishing research, sharing discoveries, and stitching together questions that arise along the way. But looking at everything that has been built…
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Wheel of the Year
For a long time, I wanted to write this text. The ideas would linger around my thoughts, but some more urgent matter always came up. Then, at bedtime, they would return. As if there are things that only rest when they finally find a place on paper or, in this case, on the screen. In…
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The scribe of the moon
Have you ever noticed that some people feel there is a connection when they look at the moon? This perception has accompanied humanity for thousands of years. In different cultures, the proximity between the average length of a lunation (about 29.5 days) and the menstrual cycle, which varies naturally from woman to woman and from…
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Is becoming cyclical?
It depends. When we speak of becoming, we are speaking of transformation, but transformation does not mean a straight path. Many processes in life return continuously, though never in the same way, and that is precisely why I also understand becoming as a cyclical movement, yet without ever closing the circle, more like an ascending…