Soldier Of Love

Depois de anos de espera o novo disco de Sade sai dentro de menos de um mês.




Esta canção soberba tem o título do álbum e não podia estar mais a propósito numa uma altura em que estamos todos cansados do reboliço em que mais uma vez mergulhou o mundo... É disto que
precisamos...

Sade - Soldier Of Love - Soldier Of Love (2010)

"Is There A God For Haiti?????????"

Recuso-me a ver imagens de mais uma catástrofe, recuso-me a ouvir detalhes sobre tal desgraça, a minha pobre cabeça parece querer rebentar, está demasiado frágil mais uma vez.... Sinto o estômago embrulhado, apetece-me gritar estou dividida entre o esforço para não chorar e a raiva de pouco ou nada poder fazer...

Encontrei este texto num blog da Sky News escrito por Jon-Christopher Bua, analista político e comentador da Casa Branca, sinto uma enorme necessidade de partilhá-lo...

" Is There A God For Haiti?"

"I was told as a young man that God does not ask you to take up a cross unless you can actually bear that burden. In the case of the gentle and noble people of Haiti the question is: When does the burden relent?

It is hard to imagine a people who have been given more crosses to bear - poverty, corruption, political unrest, floods, hurricanes and now a devastating 7.3 earthquake. It is often said that a picture speaks a thousand words... how ironic that Haiti's feeble infrastructure before the earthquake was so fragile that in one moment, a wave of destruction could cut Haiti off from the world community. Save the creative and innovative OnLine community, the people of Haiti would have been totally helpless to tell us their gruesome story for the past twenty-four hours. Haiti is so primitive and so developmentally removed from her Caribbean neighbours, that it is a daunting task for the most determined of news teams to actually get there and tell the story of this utter devastation.The irony is, this story of abject suffering was there happening every day even before this latest catastrophe took place. We all now live in a global community but without the images it is easy to ignore the human the condition. Haiti's latest misfortune will capture our attention... for the next few days while the world community tries to save lives and aid pours in - until we move on to the next tragedy or perhaps the next folly. Haiti's daily life is a struggle that few in the Western Hemisphere could ever comprehend. Armies of people who dedicate their lives to helping others have been confounded by the misery that is Haiti. Among them 45,000 Americans await rescue from their government.The US, Mexico, Canada and Venezuela Haiti's comparatively wealthy neighbours have all allowed these conditions to exist for a very long time. Since Haiti is so poor and disorganized that it cannot pose a threat to the region and has no vital natural resources especially oil, so it remains ignored. Normal conditions on this island nation are so bad that its citizens regularly risk life and limb on make-shift rafts in desperate attempts to reach Florida's shores.These brave immigrants work hard to built a new life in America and send money home to help those they have left behind. It is hard to understand how these people who have so little are asked to endure even more. Maybe this time when the "breaking news" is over the world community will not turn its back on this island nation. Maybe this time after this tragedy Haiti's neighbours and the world community will begin to fix a failed state because it is the human thing to do."

Jon-Christopher Bua

MICHAEL JACKSON - 1958 - 2009

"Like A Comet
Born To Amuse, To Inspire, To Delight
Here One Day
Gone One Night
Like A Sunset
Dying With The Rising Of The Moon
Gone Too Soon..."

Choro profundamente a morte deste grande ser humano, estrela entre as estrelas, muito mais que um cantor, mais que um dançarino, mais que uma voz... Ídolo de muitas outras estrelas, eternamente inspirador, revolucionário e excepcional como ele, só ele... Imortal.

Aprendi com o Michael a fazer o "moonwalking", mas ensinou-me também através de mensagens como esta a desejar cada vez mais tornar-me um ser humano melhor e mais atento...

"I'm Gonna Make A Change,
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . .

As I Turn Up The Collar On My
Favourite Winter Coat
This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind
I See The Kids In The Street,
With Not Enough To Eat
Who Am I, To Be Blind?
Pretending Not To See
Their Needs
A Summer's Disregard,
A Broken Bottle Top
And A One Man's Soul
They Follow Each Other On
The Wind Ya' Know
'Cause They Got Nowhere
To Go
That's Why I Want You To
Know

I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change


I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish
Kind Of Love
It's Time That I Realize
That There Are Some With No
Home, Not A Nickel To Loan
Could It Be Really Me,
Pretending That They're Not
Alone?

A Willow Deeply Scarred,
Somebody's Broken Heart
And A Washed-Out Dream
(Washed-Out Dream)
They Follow The Pattern Of
The Wind, Ya' See
Cause They Got No Place
To Be
That's Why I'm Starting With
Me"
Estes dez minutos merecem ser vistos atentamente até ao fim...

The Songs That We Sing

Acho que até sou bastante optimista, e deve ser por isso que quando me dá para o inverso se torna muito complicado, só me apetece desaparecer...

Ligo a TV, estou cansada de ver corrupção, egoísmo, ambição desmedida, violência, sofrimento, fome, guerra, bombistas suicidas, massacre de baleias, putos que matam 20 gatos, seres humanos que fogem dos seus lares por serem vítimas de racismo, New Orleans continua a lutar, o Cribs continua a bombar, no Congo as crianças orfãs maltratadas sorriem, batem palmas e cantam "Hakuna Matata", crianças que vasculham no lixo descalças, mulheres com 700 pares de sapatos, o CSI, Mentes Criminosas e mais sangue, e ainda o voo 447 e todas aquelas famílias destroçadas, os corpos no fundo do mar, e noutro canal um padre que fala "naquela" vez em que Deus ordenou a Moisés que abrisse uma passagem no mar...e como se já não bastasse aparece um tipo que afirma ter sido força divina o facto de não ter embarcado por não ter o passaporte em dia... Vou deixar estar no Canal Panda... Arrrrgh não há por aí outro Mundo?

Uma hora à luz das velas... humm... cool... ;)