Rodrigo Sommer's site over here.
Here's a glimpse of my homeland: Portugal.
Here's Mondego River, near Montemor-o-Velho.
“Radical problems call for radical solutions. Conventional politicians are too softheaded to create radical solutions and too fainthearted to implement them if they could, whereas political revolutionaries, no matter how well meaning, ultimately offer only bloodshed followed by another round of repression.
To truly alter conditions, we must alter ourselves—philosophically, psychologically, and perhaps, biologically. The first step in those alterations will consist mainly of cutting...
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This might be a very boring post. Who wants to watch a conference near the end of the weekend? However, fracking is terrible and it might be evidence that fracking and another practices are the main causes of human-created earthquakes.
"Homer’s “Odyssey” narrates the chaotic homeward journey from the devastated battlefield of ancient Troy. The hero, the resourceful and cunning king Odysseus, leaves a Troy shattered not only by war but by the vindictive gods of the Greek pantheon. Although the heroes of the Trojans and Greeks contribute to victory and defeat it is ultimately the battle between the gods themselves that decide the fate...
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Matthieu Ricard is a so much inspiring person! He has been a buddhist monk since 1979 and he is really one of the few spiritual seekers I really adore.
Here is a recent speech he gave at the LinkedIn speaker series:
Some months ago, I decided to come back to the Suicide Girls website. My posts were very rare and I only went to the site once or twice a yer. I didn’t know which model I would find. I remembered well @Clio, @Unida, @Ember, @Roach, @Novack, @Sawa and many others. But I lost contact with the joy of publishing things. But some months ago, I...
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