Edifício L

"Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then its over." Noah Hawley, 2017. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

living

Life is a distraction from death. Save energy. Adapt fast. Diversity is key for survival. Take some, leave some. Share surplus. Live in harmony. Love. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

February

"Life is made of this moments - of one's physical being moving through time and space - and we string them together in a story, and that story becomes our life" but, "what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave? What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remains obsessed, even as our bodies move on?" Noah Hawley, 2017, Before the Fall. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

Do what you can,

with what you have, wherever you are.

See initial sketch from last year. Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

seeds

Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

Paths

What if success was measured by the number of beings living better? What if the purpose of life was making meaningful things like taking care of the world that sustains our lives? What if we defined impact indicators that measured the number of people that can access technology? What if our paths could lead to a better world instead of leading to more technology for the few? What if our policies could lay the foundations for more organic infrastructures that require less energy? What if our time was spent in meaningful activities? What if public service meant working for the betterment of the vast population? What if government listened to the majority of workers and what they say about the individuals that are nominated to run public organisms? What if ... Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

January

Oh but my Darling, what if you fly?"

 

Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

Carry on

"Remember that your strength is also built on what you lost." Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

Every Age

"Every age has its turn

Every branch of the tree has to learn

Learn to grow find its way

Make the best of this short-lived stay

Take this seed, take this spade

Take this dream of a better day

Take your time, build a home

Build a place where we all can belong

Some things change, some remain

Some will pass us a notice by

What to focus on to improve upon

In the face of our ancient tribes

Feels so clear, feels so obvious

To each one of their own

But we all live together

Keeping what tide and what we have sown

We don't choose where we're born

We don't choose in what pocket or form

But we can learn to know

Ourselves on this glowing lil void

Take this mind, take this pen

Take this dream of a better land

Take your time, build a home

Build a place where we all

can belong."

search for meaning

"If you don't recognize a young man's will to meaning, a men's search for meaning, you'll make him worse, you'll make him doll, you'll make him frustrated." (video below)

"Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast." (wishlist)

"Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., PhD (26 March 1905, Leopoldstadt, Vienna – 2 September 1997, Vienna) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy". His best-selling book, Man's Search for Meaning (published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism, and originally published in 1946 as Trotzdem Ja Zum Leben Sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager), chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate which led him to discover the importance of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. Frankl became one of the key figures in existential therapy and a prominent source of inspiration for humanistic psychologists." (link)

silence

"Experience doesn't come raw, but it comes in real time, in wildness, and not in anyone s direct control. Responding to experience means letting generalization and specificity be in dialectic in our writings and in our biographies. And this in turn means resistance – to pressures for conformity and towards the uniform voice (although there are sometimes ethical reasons for presenting a united front )." Star, S. L., Bowker, G., (2007). Enacting silence: Residual categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication. Ethics and Information Technology, vol.9, pp. 273-280. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

June

Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

farewell

I had to say goodbye from my workspace in INETI. The extintion of INETI by the Government has been something beyond my comprehension. I'm on unpaid leave from July 2007 to July 2010. 

Equiparação a Bolseira

Através de email dos RH do INETI, tomei hoje conhecimento que o meu pedido de equiparada a bolseira, sem vencimento [que tinha dado entrada em Dezembro de 2006], foi autorizado pela tutela [Ministério da Economia e da Inovação] a 19 de Julho de 2007. Aguardo publicação na 2ª série do Diário da República.

Periodo de equiparada a bolseira, sem vencimento: 01.Jul.2007 a 30.Jun.2010