Is Age Just a Number?
October 26, 2016 15:48
“Who’s that old guy who keeps following me around?”
At first I didn’t know what my friend Gary was talking about.
Some friends and I were having lunch together last week. I looked around the table and the others also seemed confused. Gary smiled and explained, “Time is passing too fast. I look in the mirror and hardly recognize the man looking back at me. He’s too old.”
I’ve had similar moments. I’m 52, and notice more wrinkles and my muscles aren’t as tone as they used to be, no matter how much I exercise. How did this happen? Sometimes it feels like just yesterday I was in my early thirties.
I understand and have (almost) accepted that a changing physical appearance is part of aging. My body is different inside too. I don’t have as much energy as I used to. Injuries take longer to heal and new…
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The Covering Quilt
October 26, 2016 15:39
A girl was born, a miracle;
She grew to know the lizards and the birds
That lined the quilt with which
Her mother covered her at night
When she saw the stars, they shifted
Into the same bright menagerie;
Dreams of dancing tropical stars
Keeping her warm and safe
Her mother wore her sadness soft;
There was no father – there had never been –
And when her mother’s footsteps slowed with sorrow,
Her daughter offered her the covering quilt
Oh, let love rain down like showers of stars,
Let flocks of birds carry you to sweet peace;
Let love cover us tonight, we just-two,
And take us to where many-colored dreams
Turn tears into pools of reflected wonder
A senhora é rica?
October 26, 2016 15:37
As duas crianças, de casacos gastos e já demasiado pequenos, encolheram-se junto à porta:
— Por favor, a senhora tem alguns jornais velhos?
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Um reacionário radical: O pensamento político de Murray N. Rothbard
October 26, 2016 12:45
Por Miguel Anxo Bastos Boubeta, professor titular do Departamento de Ciência Política e Administração da Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
“Então, como devemos chamar a nós mesmos? Não tenho uma resposta fácil, mas talvez poderíamos dizer que somos ‘reacionários radicais’ ou ‘direitistas radicais’, o rótulo que nos foi dado por nossos inimigos nos anos 1950. Ou, se existe demasiada objeção ao temido termo ‘radical’, podemos seguir a sugestão de alguns de nosso grupo de nos chamarmos ‘a direita linha dura’. Qualquer desses termos é preferível a ‘conservador’, e também serve para a função de separar a nós mesmos do movimento conservador oficial que, como vou assinalar em um minuto, foi tomado por nossos inimigos”.
— Murray N. Rothbard. “A Strategy for the Right!” [1]
O pensamento político de Murray Rothbard ainda não foi suficientemente estudado. Neste artigo pretendemos analisar os principais pontos de seu ideário como a sua teoria predatória…
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