the world disappears
October 1, 2016 7:40POSTCARD #224: New Delhi: Learning how to sleep without the pain meds and all those chemicals that used to help me so much before, but I’m just left there thinking about things in the darkness. Stories come and go, pondering over this and that, and the awareness of being caught up in the thinking thing gets included in the wandering. Searching for a way out, but if I think about how to stop thinking, the mind gets busy looking for a solution; finding something and comparing it with other reasons why I can’t stop thinking. Thinking has its own momentum, takes time for it to slow down, there’s the opportunity to allow it all to fizzle out. Everything evaporates for a moment.
In that instant there’s a no-thinking state, a great space opens up – an awareness of being aware. Silence and emptiness, held on pause. Then, somewhere on a…
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Uganda: Governo Impede Parada Do Orgulho LGBT
October 1, 2016 7:39O Governo do Uganda, mais uma vez, ameaçou activistas LGBT que seriam presos se organizassem e participassem numa parada de Orgulho ou qualquer outro evento com temática LGBT.
Simon Lokodo, ironicamente, Ministro de Ética e Integridade do Governo do Uganda afirmou publicamente que o evento do Orgulho LGBT infrinja Código Penal do país que proíbe sexo gay e a promoção do mesmo.
Pior ainda, o próprio Ministro relaciona o activismo gay meramente com atos de pedofilia e prostituição. O Ministro afirmou à AP (Associated Press):
Estamos cientes de que existem incentivos, incluindo dinheiro, a ser oferecido aos jovens para promover a prática [homossexual].
Simon Lokodo ainda referiu que esta medida é apenas para não promover a homossexualidade no Uganda, sendo que, segundo ele, não promove a violência contra a comunidade LGBT.
Afirmações destas são ditas num período em que no Uganda se tornam cada vez mais…
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MIBE 2016: “Aprende a descodificar o teu mundo”
October 1, 2016 7:37 Mês Internacional das Bibliotecas Escolares 2016
A biblioteca escolar faz parte do nosso mundo e se olharmos para ela com atenção, se percebermos o seu funcionamento, se a descodificarmos, seremos capazes de ter ideias que ajudem a torná-la (ainda) melhor.
“Aprende a descodificar o teu mundo”
Este é o tema definido pela International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) para este mês de outubro, o Mês Internacional das Bibliotecas Escolares (MIBE).
Para 2016, o Gabinete da Rede de Bibliotecas Escolares estabelece 24 de outubro como Dia da Biblioteca Escolar em Portugal.

Rise and Shine
October 1, 2016 7:27The sound of her alarm beeping woke her up from what seemed like a long night sleep. She turned the alarm off while she was still caught up in her sleep. One eye opened the other still closed, but she knows she has to get out of bed and kick off her day with some coffee. One can’t function properly without coffee, right?
One leg out, the other too, she steps right out of her bed and makes her way to the kitchen, makes her coffee, just the way she likes it. Creamy and sugary. She grabs a cookie to boost her mood and goes out to the balcony.
It’s 7:00 am, not much of noise in the neighborhood, but the sound of the voices and thoughts going on in her head were wayy too loud. It seemed like a party in there.
She tries to shush the sounds by…
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