First:
The New World, the love story of angelic Pocahontas, gentle John Rolfe and ruggedly genuine John Smith. When I watched it, I found myself being transported not only to another land but also to another time. Beautiful.
[read more at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402399/]
Second:
Dead Poets Society is, to use a cliché, a cinematic masterpiece. I can watch it over and over, absorbing more nuances of meaning every time. I view it as a tribute to the profession at its best... teaching not merely the subject but also the person, and having a lifelong impact on students' lives.
[read more at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/]
Television
Not much... No sorry to say: lesser and lesser. But... my little sweetheart makes me watch Noddy and Ruca at Canal Panda...
Books
I read much more writers who have internet sites and blogs. But I am still in love with real books, they are a part of me, I have grown up with some of them by my side...
About reading, Nelson Rodrigues said: "Deve-se ler pouco e reler muito. Há uns poucos livros totais, três ou quatro, que nos salvam ou que nos perdem. É preciso relê-los, sempre e sempre, com obtusa pertinácia. E, no entanto, o leitor se desgasta, se esvai, em milhares de livros mais áridos do que três desertos."
There are two books I've read several times: they are my life's books - "Le Petit Prince" (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) and "Diário" (Sebastião da Gama).
Heroes
People I can learn with, who make me think about me and the others and make the world a better place to live in: my parents, my children, my brother and sister, my friends and last but not the least, the man I love.
About me: GENERAL:
Born in Beira, Mozambique. Living in Portugal. Luso-african-asiatic descendent. Mother of 4 children (www.ecumena.blogspot.com). Teacher (www.in-cef.blogspot.com and www.infuturum.blogspot.com). A long story... (www.maedeterra.blogspot.com) But: in love, inspired by beautiful people: odiseacerebral.blogspot.com.
I have got 4 children and I've breastfed all of them.
I have been nursing since 1993 till now. My first daughter, Ângela, from 1993 to 1997; Martim, the second, from 1998 to 2000; Alexandre, the third, from 2000 to 2005 and the last one, Ari, since 2006 to the present.
I have been nursing for 16 years. I am happy and proud to be a breastfeeding mother for such a long time; it pleases me and my children love it.
Although some people do not approve public breastfeeding because they say it is abusive, I feel it's a natural thing (read more about this at http://www.pregnancy-info.net/breastfeeding_public.html).
It makes a child healthier. It is proved and I feel that breastfeeding increases mothers' health too.
Portuguese mothers don't usually breastfeed six months after their babies' birth. So, although I do not want to set any record, I've chosen this is way to show them that breastfeeding is healthy, easy and good.
"Babies breastfeed, and if they are very lucky, in the West, they are allowed to follow their biological norm and breastfeed into toddlerhood.
There is no 'natural' time to fully wean an infant, and thus refuse it your breast. All infants give up breastfeeding themselves, when they have finished with it, and move on. This usually occurs sometime between their 3rd and 4th birthday, but many leave the breast earlier, some leave the breast later.
3 years is a common 'set time' for many cultures, as it appears to give the child as much support and comfort and brain building milk as it needs, and then returns the mother to fertility for another child once those needs have been met.
The Koran asks that every mother allow their baby to breastfeed for at least 2 years.
The West (where sexual ownership of the female's body has deemed that breasts are first and foremost sexual, as opposed to how you feed babies) is the most severe in repressing breastfeeding toddlers. Such is the confusion and anxiety about breasts, there are ingrained attitudes that even newborn babies breastfeeding is actually an imposition on the sexual nature of the breast! Some areas of countries such as the USA, demands that male babies are weaned from the breast faster than female ones, as the sexual nature of the breast somehow threatens the father, the mother, and the baby.
This flies in the face of all the scientific, and social, research into the issue. Time and again, the benefits of normal term nursing - allowing the baby to continue to breastfeed as it chooses to - are shown in study after study. With a safe and secure, comforting and loving physical environment from which to view the painful and confusing world that is toddlerhood, the toddler still having access to the breast is more secure, more resilient, more confident and more independent than those forcibly weaned before their time. And still benefittng greatly from the unique nutrition that builds their brains and bones and blood perfectly.
Mothers benefit too, with protection from breast cancer etc, lost to the mother who has weaned, increasing her risk of such illness. Oxytocin from the breastfeeding biology, floods both mother and child with contentment, and helps both overcome the stresses of toddlerhood.
Therefore, the children least likely to benefit from the astounding brain building abilities of human milk, and the ones most in need of developing emotional resilience, are the 'most privileged' on the face of the planet. The cultures with so much, often give their infants too little.
The joy you can see on this 2 year old's face, says it all, really. His world is overflowing with the milk of human kindness.
The World Health Organisation recommends that all babies are allowed to receive only breastmilk for the first six months of their lives, and then to be allowed to breastfeed for a minimum of two years. Thereafter, breastfeeding should continue for as long as mother and child mutually desire.
The contradictions and confusions in the West are so extreme, that a mother allowing her toddler to breastfeed, can be viewed as abnormal, when she lives in a culture that uses images of breasts, to sell cars. Go figure.
Few mothers start their journey with their breastfeeding babies, with the intent to keep going past 2 years of age. Most fall into just putting off the decision on giving up on something so worthwhile, and so important to their child. Pressure from others can be unbearable and some mothers wean to stop the criticism...
... but mostly, the attitude normal term nursing mothers take is.. if it ain't broke, it don't need fixed."
[read more at http://www.youtube.com/user/BreastfeedingBabies]
Who I'd like to meet: People who want to share knowledge, who like teaching and learning. Breastfeeding (or not) women. Mothers and fathers. Or not. People in love. People who believe in love: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Bach, Sebastião da Gama, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Susanna Tamaro, Jacob Needleman, Pocahontas, John Keating, Jesus...
"Very beautiful. At first, it looks as if Ari was a bit intimidated by the camera but when he 'got the hang of it', he looked as if he was thoroughly enjoying himself. Ari looks like a pro who will doing this for a few more years! :-)" Written by a youtube user...(http://www.youtube.com/user/Habsfan0206)
oi lexandra adorei seu video a ave maria é uma das musicas mais linda que já ouvi gostaria muito de agradecer pela sua amizade você é uma pessoa especial espero de coração que sua vida e de sua família seja sempre preenchida de muita paz e felicidades que seu coração bata sempre no compasso de todas as coisas boas do mundo é muito bom ter a amizade de uma mulher e uma mãe tão linda e maravilhosa como você seu coração já bate aqui junto com o meu e tem um lugar guardado nele só para você que você e todos fique repletos de muitas felicidades neste ano novo e todos os anos que vier te adoro muito beijos carlos
oi alexandra para mim você é uma amiga especial gostaria muito de agradecer pela sua amizade agradecer por você existir e dizer sem demagogia que você realmente mora em meu coração beijos para todos carlos
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oi princesa hoje carrego comigo o orgulho de ter a amizade da mais linda mulher do mundo e da mãe mais incrível e linda que já conheci antes disse que você parecia uma deusa hoje tenho certeza que você é uma deusa um abraço gigante para família e outro especial para você beijos carlos
para alexandra uma amiga tão linda que mais parece uma deusa e que encanta muito um grande abraço para sua família e um abraço especial para você carlos
Olá, Alexandra, De raspão pelo myspace e esperando que esteja tudo bem, deixo um beijinho e desejos de um fim-de-semana feliz e descansado. Vem aí mais frio! Bjs
O livro Caravana
está disponível na Feira do Livro de Grândola, que decorre na
Biblioteca Municipal de Grândola, de 27 de Novembro a 9 de Dezembro de
2009. Para descobrir no espaço da editora Angelus Novus.
espero que esteja tudo bem! :-) Com muito trabalho, imagino. Por cá também, passo a correr como é hábito... este ano ainda não me sinto nada natalícia, embora já tudo se enfeite por cá... Weird. ;)
Um beijinho, e bom fim-de-semana, quentinho, com muito chá e bolos :D
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