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“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out of bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.” Pedro Arrupe

http://soc.li/ON1lMFP From the Daily News Stride down the grittier blocks of Rua Augusta in São Paulo, Brazil , and you'll spy prostitutes, crack addicts, street fights and, it just so happens, one of the most vibrant live music scenes in the world. Like some Southern Hemisphere corollary to New York's East Village of the '70s, São Paulo has, over the last few years, incubated a scene that has spawned exciting exports like Curumin, CSS, Telepathique, Sonantes — and a solo singer who also fronts that last band: Ceu (pronounced cell). Not that these acts sound at all like vintage New York punk — or even each other. "The scene here isn't a movement that has ideologies," Ceu says. "It's just that we have so many bands writing their own songs and so many beautiful singers down here." Ceu's own sound provides an ideal bridge between expected Brazilian styles — the airy and sensual lilts common to bossa nova — and a vast palette of m

I don't really care about royal weddings, really, but Kate Middleton did look gorgeous. Her Sarah Burton / Alexander McQueen's dress was stunning!

If you just look for what’s right – in others, in relationships, in yourself and your journey – you’ll always find it. Same when looking for what ’ s wrong. ~mom and mike dooley :)

Inspired by my spring 'cleansing' (the master cleanse) I decided to add a headstand to my daily tibetan rites practice (http://t.co/CkDUiug) . I am pretty good at "listening" to my body...and I feel like my body was asking for a good inversion pose. It feels so good to do this particular asana after the 5 tibetan exercises, that I decided to look into all the benefits of the headstand and other inversions. Here is what I found: Turning Upside Down: the Benefits of Headstand and Shoulder Stand A General Look at Inversions Inverted poses are an extremely important group of asanas. Inverted asanas reverse the action of gravity on the body; instead of everything being pulled towards the feet, the orientation shifts towards the head. Similarly, on the emotional and psychic levels, inverted asanas turn everything upside down, throwing a new light on old patterns of behavior and being. Generally, these practices improve health, reduce anxiety and stress and increase self-con

Quit apologizing for your greatness. If people can’t handle your light... Hand them a pair of shades.” ~Lisa Nichols

Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown. ~Author unknown, as quoted in the Lewiston Tribune

Not only was Fats Waller one of the greatest pianists jazz has ever known, he was also one of its most exuberantly funny entertainers -- and as so often happens, one facet tends to obscure the other. His extraordinarily light and flexible touch belied his ample physical girth; he could swing as hard as any pianist alive or dead in his classic James P. Johnson - derived stride manner, with a powerful left hand delivering the octaves and tenths in a tireless, rapid, seamless stream. Waller also pioneered the use of the pipe organ and Hammond organ in jazz -- he called the pipe organ the "God box" -- adapting his irresistible sense of swing to the pedals and a staccato right hand while making imaginative changes of the registration. As a composer and improviser, his melodic invention rarely flagged, and he contributed fistfuls of joyous yet paradoxically winsome songs like "Honeysuckle Rose," "Ain't Misbehavin,'" "Keepin' Out of

CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE EXPOSIÇÃO DO CARLITO CARVALHOSA Terça feira na Fundação Eva Klabin, e quarta feira na Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box4. Rio de Janeiro

“ You are the only person on earth who can use your ability .” ~ Zig Ziglar.

Let’s face it. Mistakes occur. And when they do, there are five basic response options, five different approaches you and your team members can take: You can ignore it. (The I-Couldn’t-Care-Less Approach) You can hide it. (The Cover-Up Approach) You can blame others. (The Deflection Approach) You can blame circumstances. (The Excuses Approach) You can admit to it, fix it, and learn from it – accepting any appropriate consequences like an adult. ( The RESPONSIBLE Approach)

if you like cars, like I do..you might dig this It's all about the SOUND TURN THE VOLUME UP!

CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE Pay Your Taxes? These 10 Companies Didn't. Come April 15, everybody ponies up their fair share, right? Not so much. Thanks to corporate tax cuts and loopholes, these big companies will be rollin’ in the green instead of paying Uncle Sam. Originally submitted by volunteer editors Carole S., Toni S., Laura S. and Brandon W. Found on Buzzflash.com .

We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Para o pessoal do Brasil que se interessou pelo jejum do Master Cleanse: Achei no livro original uma substituição para o Maple Syrup! Olha só, extraido do livro do Stanley Burroughs: An ideal formula involves freshly extracted juice from the sugar cane (SUCO DE CANA!) 10 oz.(300ml) fresh sugar cane juice (suco de cana) 2tbsp.(2 colheres de sobremesa) fresh lime or lemon juice (suco de limão) cayenne (red pepper) to taste (a gosto) (pimenta cayena - ai tem) Agora não tem desculpa! :) A receita do salt flush e outras informações estão no blog clique em "HEALTH" no menu do lado direito

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. ~John Wooden

Award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma and LA street dancer Lil’ Buck recently put on a miraculous performance together at an event supporting arts education. Yo-Yo Ma played an excerpt of “The Dying Swan” from Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and Lil’ Buck shared his own interpretation of the piece by dancing along. Apparently, this performance came about when a friend of Yo-Yo Ma saw Lil’ Buck’s YouTube videos and got the two of them together. Luckily, Spike Jonze was there to film the whole thing. Click through for an amazing collaboration between old style and new style that creates something wholly original and beautiful. source: flavorwire

Twice a year I fast for 10 days. It's a way to cleanse my body and bring it to balance again after all the WINTER and SUMMER indulgences! I have been doing this particular cleanse for 5 years now and I love the way it makes me feel. If you would like to know about it, here is a more concise version of my previous Master Cleanse post (for those of you who, like me, are a little A.D.D. ) My Fasting of Choice: The Master Cleanse What is the Master Cleanse? The Master Cleanse is a body and mind detoxification program created by alternative medicine performer Stanley Burroughs in 1941. Burroughs states that “this fasting is a detoxification program that aids in the removal of harmful toxins like pesticides, hormones, prescription drugs, chemical fertilizers, heavy metals and congestion that have built up in the body.” What are the benefits of this cleanse? Break unhealthy habits.
 Cleanse your body of years of built up waste.

 Give you a major energy boost.

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Early on this evening, I was in a special mood...you know when EVERYTHING you do seems to come out absolutely perfect? Despite the rain, I had a really nice and productive day that ended up with an amazing massage (@ Acqua Spa with Tommy - http://www.acquabeautybar.com) After my massage I went shopping for some fish & veggies for dinner (right next door actually @ good'ol'no lines'Garden of Eden - who needs Wholefoods!?) and stopped by USQ Wines (http://www.unionsquarewines.com/) where I grabbed a bottle of 2007 Ca'DiPian - Barbera D'asti. Even though I was having fish I decided to stick to a bold wine. I can't help it...I am a bold wine girl. And my wine drinking choices usually go with what the weather is like and also my state of mind more so than the food I am eating it with. Sue me. Anyway...so the weather was truly awful. As my friend Sofia says, we had monsoonic style rain. That is the kind of weather that when you are out, walking around, all you can