TeresaCristina

Flamboyant

In the street where I spent my childhood there was a beautiful tree. I used to contemplate it and observe its movements and changes. The time I loved most was when the flowers were bright and thus the tree was complete, whole. At that time I did not know its name.

When I grew up I came to know it was called flamboyant. And exactly today I found out that there are other definitions for the word flamboyant. So it does not only describe my awe-inspiring and admirable tree. When I learned the name of that beautiful tree I thought that it was just perfect and unique and I could never have imagined it could mean other things. Well, I was wrong!

Look what I have discovered:

It is a flower beetle - Eudicella gralli.

It is a cuttlefish - Metasepia pfefferi, also known as Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish.

It is a style of gothic architecture.

There are at least two songs called Flamboyant. One of them is sung by Pet Shop Boys, a band I loved when I was younger. I still do.

Isn't it fascinating how humans can create words? How we can associate words with images, animals, trees, sounds and a myriad of things. It is my firm belief that it is not by pure chance that we were created in His own image, in the image of God.

And look up the word in the dictionary:

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/flamboyant#flamboyance

Monday 15 September 2008

ISAAC NEWTON

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. `Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things.”
Quoted in G Simmons Calculus Gems (New York 1992).

“Explicar toda natureza é uma tarefa muito difícil para qualquer homem ou mesmo para qualquer era. É muito melhor fazer um pouco com certeza, e deixar o restante para outros que virão depois de você, do que explicar todas as coisas.”
Citado em G Simmons Calculus Gems (New York 1992).

Numero pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
Deus criou tudo por número, peso e medida.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
Na falta de qualquer outra prova, somente o polegar me convenceria da existência de Deus.
Citado em in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).

Tuesday 12 August 2008

THE LOVE OF GOD

The LOVE of GOD: It is necessary to feel it inside our hearts...we can not describe it in words. We must experience, live and feel it right inside our souls. It is amazing! Awesome! Fabulous! No words really...no words could express it!

Quotations by Sir William Shakespeare, The Bard, e minhas traduções

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.Seja grandioso em suas acões assim como você tem sido em seus pensamentos.
Action is eloquence.Ação é eloquência.
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.A glória é como um círculo na água, Que nunca pára de alargar-se, Até que de tanto se espalhar Se dispersa em nada.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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Flamboyant

The magnificent flamboyant

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