HERON DILEMMAS

A great blue heron on the road

 Alarm

 Take off

A croak in protest and flight

 

A ferocious dilemma in the beauty of humans, wildlife refuges and birds...

LIKE A BIRD ON A WIRE

Like a bird on a wire

like a drunk in a midnight fire

I have tried in my way
to be free...



Like a bird on the wire, 
Like a drunk in a midnight choir 
I have tried in my way to be free. 
Like a worm on a hook, 
Like a knight from some old fashioned book 
I have saved all my ribbons for thee. 
If I, if I have been unkind, 
I hope that you can just let it go by. 
If I, if I have been untrue 
I hope you know it was never to you. 

Like a baby, stillborn, 
Like a beast with his horn 
I have torn everyone who reached out for me. 
But I swear by this song 
And by all that I have done wrong 
I will make it all up to thee. 
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, 
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much." 
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, 
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" 

Oh like a bird on the wire, 
Like a drunk in a midnight choir 
I have tried in my way to be free.

(Leonard Cohen)

MANDELA DIES

UMA HOMENAGEM A NELSON MANDELA

Nas belas palavras de Tião Rocha, educador e líder mineiro:

“A partir de hoje Nelson Mandela deixa de ser uma pessoa e, ao tornar-se "encantado", transforma-se num verbo: eu mandelo, tu mandelas, ele e ela mandela, nós mandelamos, vós mandelais, eles e elas mandelam.
"Mandelar" significa: lutar até a morte pelos valores mais essenciais de nossas vidas: liberdade, justiça, igualdade, respeito e tolerância.”

 

 

 IN HONOR OF NELSON MANDELA

In the beautiful words of Tião Rocha, Brazilian leader and educator:

 

“As of now Mandela ceases to be a person and as he becomes “enchanted” he is transformed into a verb: I mandela, you mandela, he and she mandelas, we mandela, you mandela, they mandela.  To “mandela” means to fight until death for the most essential values in our lives: freedom, justice, equality, respect and tolerance.”