dá-me os teus olhos eles são lagos, crateras de atenção, e a tua boca na minha, torna o meu vestido num fragmento de mim, tecido-terra por onde circula a claridade dá-me os teus olhos esta é a hora temperada da excepcionalidade, de um não-pensar, via da consolação e dom, momento em que nada se disse e não importou dá-me os teus olhos, só assim serei alguém de amor Ana Marques Gastão

Roubo-te à linguagem, só assim serás real. Ana Marques Gastão

Harrison Ford and Sean Connery. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989).

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SANTA CLAUSE The man we know as Santa Claus has a history all his own. Today, he is thought of mainly as the jolly man in red, but his story stretches all the way back to the 3rd century. The legend of Santa Claus can be traced back hundreds of years to a monk named St. Nicholas. It is believed that Nicholas was born sometime around 280 A.D. in Patara, near Myra in modern-day Turkey. Much admired for his piety and kindness, St. Nicholas became the subject of many legends. It is said that he gave away all of his inherited wealth and traveled the countryside helping the poor and sick. One of the best known of the St. Nicholas stories is that he saved three poor sisters from being sold into slavery or prostitution by their father by providing them with a dowry so that they could be married. Over the course of many years, Nicholas’s popularity spread and he became known as the protector of children and sailors. His feast day is celebrated on the anniversary of his death, December 6. This was traditionally considered a lucky day to make large purchases or to get married. By the Renaissance, St. Nicholas was the most popular saint in Europe. Even after the Protestant Reformation, when the veneration of saints began to be discouraged, St. Nicholas maintained a positive reputation, especially in Holland.

This is the cocoon of the Metallic Mechanitis Butterfly Chrysalis from Costa Rica. Mechanitis is a genus of tigerwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Fabricius in 1807. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.