Outro Lado da Lua

Tuesday, June 30

And I'd give up forever to touch you

Cause I know that you feel me somehow

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

Sigh

Monday, June 22

Thursday, June 11

I miss Mordheim.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves (...)”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

I want you to notice

When I am not around

You're so fucking special

I wish I was special

"We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane."

Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

Monday, June 1

Whatever our souls are made of

"Vegvisir and Aegishjalmur are two of the most well-known Icelandic symbols today. You’ll see them in tattoos, jewelry, artwork, and even pop culture. In English, the Vegvisir is called the Viking compass. The Aegishjalmur is known as the Helm of Awe."

https://guidetoiceland.is/best-of-iceland/vegvisir-vs-aegishjalmur-meanings-origins-and-key-differences

MORERAPS, on writing - Joseph Coelho

In the attempt

"If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt."

Before Sunrise

Wednesday, May 20

That's life

"That's life (that's life)

That's what all the people say

You're riding high in April, shot down in May

But I know I'm gonna change that tune

When I'm back on top, back on top in June"

Monday, May 18

Darkness

There is a darkness about you I recognize. ’Cause you see, I live with that darkness too, and I never stopped trying to thrive in its shadow. I keep laughing, hiding the pain in plain sight – just like I have seen you do. It makes me want to hug you, tell you it’s not necessarily going to be alright but at least we have each other now.

Do we have each other?

It makes me want to let myself fall, as I know I probably will, because of that darkness about you. It’s ok. I am used to falling, and I have learned that, for some people, that is the only way to fly.

No, I don't wanna fall in love

"I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you

And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you"

Orcs everywhere!

The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon) is a cognitive bias in which a person notices a specific concept, word, or product more frequently after recently becoming aware of it.

The name was coined in 1994 by Terry Mullen in a letter to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The letter describes how, after mentioning the name of the German militant group Baader–Meinhof once, he kept noticing it. This led to other readers sharing their own experiences of the phenomenon, leading it to gain recognition. It was not until 2005, when Stanford linguistics professor Arnold Zwicky wrote about this effect on his blog, that the name "frequency illusion" was coined.

Several possible causes behind frequency illusion have been put forth. However, the consensus seems to be that the main processes behind this illusion are other cognitive biases and attention-related effects that interact with frequency illusion. Zwicky considered this illusion a result of two psychological processes: selective attention and confirmation bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion