First Brazilian woman president.

Not First Lady, but the head of a nation in its first day after victory.

My vote went to Marina and then Sierra, but my hope is for the one that won at least that she governs well.

May she be competent and bring much happiness to the Brazilian people.

How the next four years will be, nobody knows…

All we know up to now is that Dilma won.

The news that follows is even a little predictable.

For now, as everywhere, everything is just formalities…

The new president says she will govern for the people, gives a handshake to her opponent, wishes him good luck, says she will keep an eye on things and stuff…

So, tomorrow I go to the polls once again.

For the fourth time this year!

This time for Governor of Texas.

I have never failed to vote since I was 18, but I’ve also never voted so many times in one year!

And all after September.

That is what have dual citizenship gets you…

Now tell me…

Having gotten that gossip off my chest after so many voting booths in front of me.

Since Gabeira was there and went through some bad experiences like Dilma did…

…CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:

In the film by Bruno Barreto, book “Four Days In September”  tells the true story of Fernando Gabeira, involved in the kidnapping of American ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick.

This film was named best foreign film in 1997, telling the struggle of four guerrillas in an attempt to release 15 political prisoners.

Would Dilma be there too?

I’ll try to find the book here to know things better.

But for now, that’s the question and the recommendation of the film (I’ve already seen it twice).

With Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello, Milton Gonçalves and the talented group below.

While Texans put their heads together, meet to fight against all that oil (the explosion last week), so it does not reach our waters, I ask that you pray, pray, light your candles, grab your rosaries, burn some incense, make your requests for marine life that surrounds us.

And for our waters.

It seems that we never value it, until the well is dry.

And men can control this tragedy… which they say could be worse than the EXXON VALDEZ.

May we be able to save not only marine life, but also these wonderful creatures flying around us… and not be greedy in any way.

The sea is dying and civilization is the culprit, messing with our planet, from the ocean floor up to the stratosphere.

How sad.

This is a beautiful planet. It is not a delicate or fragile planet. It has endured all kinds of volcanoes and cataclysmic catastrophes… But, man has proven himself, with his intelligence that he can destroy MORE life, than nature itself.

God made life simple, and the earth will never be in harmony with all this ambition.

I count on you. Read below:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=7415072

Does age poison us?

Or do we poison age…?

Yes, because D. Gertrude had a birthday this week and was 101!

So, as you can see… This old lady is still the life of many parties.

Guess why.

“Playing piano invigorates your spirit and connection with your listeners has kept her mind and heart in perfect health for all these decades.” (The words from her doctor)

Stories like hers are of great interest to Dr.Thomas Perls who seriously studies and researches thousands of people who have enjoyed good health for 100 years or more.

Dr. Perls says, “so she, like others, exceeded 100 years, because they can manage their own stress well, are more communicative and more optimistic… even about the fact of aging.”

The “escapers”, as centenarians these are called, are not thinking about and internalizing stressful things. And it is in this way in which she has ‘escaped’ from age-related diseases.

Dr. Perls believes most people have the power to extend their own lives, simply by changing their own thinking.

And Miss Gertrude sends sends her own message:

“You have to behave right and don’t smoke.”

She has been a pianist since the Great Depression (1929-1932), and says that she truly believes that music keeps her young.

“I play music I like, that has rhythm and melody.”

Thus, at the piano, she works until today, playing for two hours twice a week at a local restaurant, and only complains of arthritis. But he says “it’s not big thing “… She is still able to live alone, likes partying and dancing.

Doctors and centenarians agree on this: Doing what you love is the key to long life.

To which I add: the Guatemalan proverb that is so true…

“Each one is the age of his heart.”

How old would you be, if you didn’t know how old you were…?

(With that attitude, she was news in several newspapers and TV channels in America).