Birthday Chronicle

As we live our lives, we see a lot. We see bad and disgusting things, but beautiful things too. Bad things like people dying and lying. Beautiful things like a salt desert that reflects the sky as perfect mirror or a charmed coffee shop. As we live our lives, we do things. We change and fight for things; we inspire. We impress people through our actions, even if we didn't mean it. As we live our lives we get old. Small things get bigger, up turns down... wrinkles, cellulites... It all changes, way before 40... Hopefully, as we live our lives we'll make mistakes. We'll make mistakes because we do things. We have 2 choices: do things, make mistakes and get things done; or don't do things, make mistakes anyway, and get nothing done. But the great thing about mistakes is the after words. " You have a whole life to fix them" Hopefully, a long life ahead of you, full of opportunities, full of things to see and taste, and with many white mornings...If we a have a whole life ahead of us, we'll count it essentially by the days we live. At every day, by the morning, we have a chance to make it all better, because mornings are white. Someone very special tricked me with a question a long time ago: Do you know what it means "Branca e a tez da manha"(white is the color of the morning face) ? (I only got it, when I left this person) The mornings are white, pure. They give you a second chance, everyday. Because in the mornings there is nothing done, you have a whole day ahead of you. In NYC today, the whole day has been white. Everything looks brighter, pure... The snow is celebrating your special day giving to everything and everyone, a bit of its brightness and pureness. We have all to celebrate the fact that you have a whole life ahead of you to see things, to do things, to make mistakes, to fix and learned from them and to enjoy many white mornings. So, enjoy...
(Dedicated to Claudia, my sister. February/2008)