It was a storybook summer …
That made me feel seventeen again. Only, better.
Seventeen without the self-doubt. Or the bad skin. Or the empty wallet. Or the curfew.
It was the kind of summer you save in your treasure chest of memories, to be taken out on cold nights decades later, when your eyes have permanently settled into their laugh lines [...]
“Rivers belong where they can ramble, eagles belong where they can fly, I’ve got to be where my spirit can run free … got to find my corner of the sky…” Pippin
I don’t exactly know where I’m going.
Not in the big picture life sense anyway.
But I do know I’m glad about the road I didn’t take.
I had [...]
“Olha que coisa mais linda, mais cheia de graca, e ela menina que vem e que passa, num doce balanco, caminho do mar …” A Garota Ipanema
The first recording of Girl From Ipanema, with Joao and Astrud Gilberto singing, Joao also on guitar, Stan Getz on tenor sax and Antonio Carlos Jobim on the piano is purely, absolutely [...]
That’s a direct quote from my friend at dinner the other night. Another Theresian-Atenean with a strong personality, she complains her husband lets her do the driving in every aspect of their life: their kids, their household, their business, even their bedroom …
They fought recently, in the middle of the night, and she told him to get the hell out. [...]
