Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) April 13, 2024.

"When you tape into the arts to foster a meditative state, the places in your brain responsible for judgment and personal criticism are...

"Carbon dioxide plus water combined in the presence of light and chlorophyl in the beautiful membrane-bound machinery of life yields su...

O tempo oferece palcos onde vamos esculpindo vidas. A nossa e a de outros seres que se entrelaçam na nossa. O tempo, esse grande escultor, d...

How can we go on living our lives when people of war keep annihilating lives around the world? How can we devise a prosperous future for any...

" What if we could fashion a restoration plan that grew from understanding multiple meanings of land? Land as sustainer. Land as identi...

" Beauty is not only formal, and lies not only in the superficial qualities that are appealing to the eye or ear, it lies in patterns ...

" We know that loving a person has agency and power - we know it can change everything. Yet we act as if loving the land is an interna...

“ Imperfect they may be, but I believe they are a beginning of a reweaving of the bond between people and the land. (…) I can take the burie...

"Time as objective reality has never made much sense to me. It's what happens that matters. (...) If there is meaning in the past a...

“If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.” Rob...

Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC), taken November 7, 2023.

“In fighting against resistance, we will become more focused on getting rid of the problem than on understanding what it is; by contrast, wh...

"Observing something beautiful" is "an occasion for unselfing" and it "may well hold the key to our collective surv...

«(...) words and ideas underwent a radical currency devaluation, a crash connected, in ways we have barely begun to understand, to the torre...

"(...) metamorphosis occurs when two or more unlike elements are joined (...). Here the craftsman has consciously to decide if the comb...

While reading about the « Workshop in Rotterdam: How to Build a Bike Generator », discovered the larger solution scenarios for human powered...

" If we had 30 days to save the world, would we act before the 29th ? " Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty; like a butterfly it seeks colour and basks in warmth." Virginia W...

"Feeling the touch, discovering the colour, memorizing the smell. Weaving quietly different textures and tensions. Creating peace to g...

"(...) she could remember nothing. For all the dinners are cooked; the plates and cups washed; the children sent to school and gone int...

"The demand for urban nature-based solutions can be expected to rise exponentially, as greening cities is the best measure to address t...

"Space is transformed into place as it acquires definition and meaning." Yi-Fu Tuan (2005). Space and Place. The perspective of ex...

"Build a life that you don't need to escape from." "If true peace and clarity are what you seek in this life (...) know t...

How strange that people who try to protect the Planet are called «activists» or «rebels», instead of «protectors» or «carers». Even stranger...

Made by Mother Earth and Father Time, and Love. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

"Particular attention should be paid to the material used, for good craftsmanship is built on natural foundations, and nature assures t...

"When you can see yourself from outside, you contemplate existence with more humility and perceptiveness than when (...) you imagined y...

"It's a strange sort of pain. (...) To die of yearning for something you'll never experience." by Alessandro Baricco (1997...

The plants used in my tapestries come from my little garden, are gathered during my walks, or collected during visits to friends and family ...

Navete ou lançadeira. Portuguese words used for shuttle. "A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store a holder that car...

June 18, 2023. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

June 10, 2023. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

June 20, 2023. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

"Women have been the weavers of tales and tapestries. For centuries, they have unspooled their stories as they spun or threw the shuttl...

Estimates suggest that a garden of 1,000 square meters could sequester one ton of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per year [see entry from November, ...