tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38553018045979736392024-03-18T09:48:29.737+00:00SEXTA-FEIRAElvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.comBlogger3548125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-90522914305059874442024-03-08T00:00:00.004+00:002024-03-08T00:00:00.310+00:008 DE MARÇO - DIA INTERNACIONAL DA MULHER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJ9ogO0LQ4NpqAO_N6owQ9s3IvbA-ghBhfRTwqdDOggvYfMtwWii8xveg0mAjpXWZmvJMYVIQsHKqK3trbSac8dYqBy3B-n9BskPXcQodKsCx7A5L4ABiyfrCGnmqSPU2OZyv6n9hULWMLLY5RQP3tXm2RpBXJoYf8iNW8ucXC8cseWXbmoJYn-I06y4/s400/rosa+da+Carminda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJ9ogO0LQ4NpqAO_N6owQ9s3IvbA-ghBhfRTwqdDOggvYfMtwWii8xveg0mAjpXWZmvJMYVIQsHKqK3trbSac8dYqBy3B-n9BskPXcQodKsCx7A5L4ABiyfrCGnmqSPU2OZyv6n9hULWMLLY5RQP3tXm2RpBXJoYf8iNW8ucXC8cseWXbmoJYn-I06y4/s320/rosa+da+Carminda.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p> </p><p><br /> <span style="text-align: center;">É PARA TI, MULHER</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">É para ti, Mulher<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Que sonhavas com uma vida de Amor,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Com Respeito, Igualdade de direitos,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">a Liberdade,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">E a dignidade de seres Mulher.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">E és violada, espancada, vilipendiada.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">É tua vida, rosa sem perfume<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Espinhosa na profissão e no lar.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Para ti, Mulher<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Que sonhas com um mundo de Paz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">E vês o teu mundo, ruir com uma guerra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Que não quiseste, nem entendes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mas te obriga a fugir do teu lar destruído</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">para pores os filhos a salvo </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Deixando para trás o marido que luta<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sem saberes se voltarão a ver-se</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">É para ti, Mulher,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Que sonhas com um mundo melhor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Onde o alimento não falte na mesa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mas sobrevives à fome<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">E seguras no peito esquálido<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">O corpo do teu filho moribundo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Porque nem o teu amor, nem a tua dor,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lhe alimentaram o corpo faminto.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">É para ti, Mulher<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Filha, irmã, esposa, mãe, viúva,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Quantas vezes carregaste no ventre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Com alegria o Milagre da Vida<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sofrendo todas as dores, com um sorriso</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">E hoje sobrevives na solidão,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Porque o marido, a morte o levou<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">E os filhos se perderam, no mar da emigração.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">É para ti Mulher<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Que carregas dia a dia, a morte no peito<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">A minha homenagem, o meu respeito</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Elvira Carvalho</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-2691715435173627242024-02-26T20:09:00.005+00:002024-02-26T20:09:59.460+00:00A COR DOS POEMAS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjULoCW-TMBVgb3KNbSGKkzPEnWDc0wAuJJ262cgdMEN70Bwlv04tVHNEa3vb9a5_uZG76OvJ46JhZnzct0dbF3kXjyJbEm7K5RzedYAsAUqNroEgmlFeNaVolQWTFh9UdtxmT1vdDwS7gWm8rxm4Hh3xNkearpVttRz_CaWlWI4TQX4AYpxuZFUCzAL8c/s4961/Cartaz%20A%20Cor%20dos%20Poemas.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4961" data-original-width="3508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjULoCW-TMBVgb3KNbSGKkzPEnWDc0wAuJJ262cgdMEN70Bwlv04tVHNEa3vb9a5_uZG76OvJ46JhZnzct0dbF3kXjyJbEm7K5RzedYAsAUqNroEgmlFeNaVolQWTFh9UdtxmT1vdDwS7gWm8rxm4Hh3xNkearpVttRz_CaWlWI4TQX4AYpxuZFUCzAL8c/s320/Cartaz%20A%20Cor%20dos%20Poemas.png" width="226" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> É já no próximo sábado, dia 2 de Março, às 15,30, o lançamento do meu primeiro livro de poesia.</span><p></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-5311508251092347912024-02-21T13:31:00.002+00:002024-02-21T13:31:23.163+00:00NOVO LIVRO<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Z62Q54RXU_DlNH-yuv9dUc_B0nIcyz83GXhcX5H90snOSvkb4ujMSwxCPBHKCrASbz4kmYDrMqYvSwEZTpLx0RdIF8vSIOmA_GmTuYBj3SNVtoNr-B2RtHIhDo8ii1Fkd0vMYSTRTs9PLRkj6T5kN1Xcula3uknVJvqhmNHkr5Tpfg-M2DRwZHc7JF0/s1040/IMG_20240221_131425_resized_20240221_011618127.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="780" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Z62Q54RXU_DlNH-yuv9dUc_B0nIcyz83GXhcX5H90snOSvkb4ujMSwxCPBHKCrASbz4kmYDrMqYvSwEZTpLx0RdIF8vSIOmA_GmTuYBj3SNVtoNr-B2RtHIhDo8ii1Fkd0vMYSTRTs9PLRkj6T5kN1Xcula3uknVJvqhmNHkr5Tpfg-M2DRwZHc7JF0/s320/IMG_20240221_131425_resized_20240221_011618127.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqdwaPBzRMkKjJIkhJf45SoA0hbyOBh1NA9DuZ-gAQsCCFVS12bELl_rkCmIz0Jgj6uVlJHf2UPpiwjoMSYHEzjzK_sHdsynmiMKVIjttsT1MZadh2EM0Goii4fuwdGlFjeJ5iE-Fh7wcLisM_P8tbl0MFPyZxDhGULJ-_aq5IPjuSfw4UF1Wp9FtrDk/s1040/IMG_20240221_132517_resized_20240221_012543984.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="780" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqdwaPBzRMkKjJIkhJf45SoA0hbyOBh1NA9DuZ-gAQsCCFVS12bELl_rkCmIz0Jgj6uVlJHf2UPpiwjoMSYHEzjzK_sHdsynmiMKVIjttsT1MZadh2EM0Goii4fuwdGlFjeJ5iE-Fh7wcLisM_P8tbl0MFPyZxDhGULJ-_aq5IPjuSfw4UF1Wp9FtrDk/s320/IMG_20240221_132517_resized_20240221_012543984.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> Eis o meu novo livro a ser lançado dia 2 de Março. </span><p></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-92215837331819913432024-02-18T17:36:00.002+00:002024-02-18T17:36:35.544+00:00BOA TARDE AMIGOS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuYLvDEinU0E_SI-lcO36G7qW7n9aJX5ByBu__Vs3o58aG61_W53ZSy-HRTvOZBsErwi8-x3MccQMLewZIZhm81E4VGRsh3G8iLZ723xIa2fzifZWewBgAY9GglO2ZbLlDOB7NWYq7mpVi0yJgxvWSZgD0AOmY4jfS61lNWB1xDGGgNzDB0GxZBw2TM7A/s790/20120810212652-d853527e-me.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="790" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuYLvDEinU0E_SI-lcO36G7qW7n9aJX5ByBu__Vs3o58aG61_W53ZSy-HRTvOZBsErwi8-x3MccQMLewZIZhm81E4VGRsh3G8iLZ723xIa2fzifZWewBgAY9GglO2ZbLlDOB7NWYq7mpVi0yJgxvWSZgD0AOmY4jfS61lNWB1xDGGgNzDB0GxZBw2TM7A/s320/20120810212652-d853527e-me.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Boa tarde amigos</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Venho dizer-vos que graças aos medicamentos, ou à fé e orações estou muito melhor. Claro que a dor está cá, mas já consigo conversar com as pessoas sem desatar a chorar e já me sinto com forças para conseguir levar adiante o compromisso que tinha marcado desde Novembro passado. O lançamento do meu livro de poesia está marcado para o próximo dia 2 de Março. Pensei que teria de adiar pois não me sentia com forças nem coragem, mas Graças a Deus que estou melhor, e talvez em breve possa regressar, muito embora não sei se com a continuação dos blogues, ou apenas visitando-vos e comentando. Ainda não consegui escrever nada. Também tenho estado pior dos olhos, ontem estive numa consulta de oftalmologia, e o médico ficou muito admirado de no Hospital de Santa Maria me terem dado alta, há quase 3 anos e não me terem marcado nenhuma consulta de acompanhamento por causa do transplante de córnea. E além de me medicar no imediato, aconselhou-me a fazer uma consulta com um especialista em córnea.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E por hoje é tudo. Muito obrigada a todos pelo carinhoso apoio que me têm dado.</span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-83410186787402573302024-02-15T09:48:00.002+00:002024-02-19T21:30:48.133+00:00NOTÍCIAS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyF9yqDAK_TwE7GeYelwU2N_mQCN4WSv-soMATeYDL3TYgZDe68GhS8S_ONdN1oKQU9JefeygS2l7-lXf1Cb7ltR3GNdm8BuiIdihRaGDXFTTw8qO-YeZRew9AJH3Cu92Q-WwLhWvpBDiXTwhndjI4E9WGEo8KoZfML_GE8uvjFCCLd8TZ9LzQ_UpqhRI/s850/IMG-20200924-WA0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="850" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyF9yqDAK_TwE7GeYelwU2N_mQCN4WSv-soMATeYDL3TYgZDe68GhS8S_ONdN1oKQU9JefeygS2l7-lXf1Cb7ltR3GNdm8BuiIdihRaGDXFTTw8qO-YeZRew9AJH3Cu92Q-WwLhWvpBDiXTwhndjI4E9WGEo8KoZfML_GE8uvjFCCLd8TZ9LzQ_UpqhRI/s320/IMG-20200924-WA0002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bom dia amigos. Ontem estive numa consulta médica. Levei toda a consulta a chorar. A médica diz que estou depressiva, receitou-me o Alprazolam, o Mirtazapina e a Sertralina. Pediu acompanhamento psicológico, mas avisou que as consultas estão demoradas. E disse que eu tinha de reagir, voltar à escrita, e a tudo aquilo que dantes me dava prazer fazer. Como se fosse fácil, deixar de sentir esta angústia e sentir o peso da casa vazia. Agradeço a todos pelo carinho, pelas mensagens de apoio, telefonemas e emails. Que Deus vos abençoe.</span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-33378876315900965252024-01-11T07:58:00.003+00:002024-01-11T07:58:35.749+00:00AGRADECIMENTO<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSm8sPgDk_OVROdKJVRmFxTTPHktnsk_gOhzxAsKP9iz5FqgXm72lIlp9qo8M6Hh2ioZPuKA8dOdlxaDQSQzn12PyiK6ynpI5LOT8h2UuLId8_d3q0Vs3PldVhZiZKDdPlbGUemR1tXexeUx3tyLTFw5P5q3y3gBt8rjEURcoT6p8-KE1MQgf97BuW0rk/s289/e49094c6ae678c958f57ccab9e8d0e33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="236" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSm8sPgDk_OVROdKJVRmFxTTPHktnsk_gOhzxAsKP9iz5FqgXm72lIlp9qo8M6Hh2ioZPuKA8dOdlxaDQSQzn12PyiK6ynpI5LOT8h2UuLId8_d3q0Vs3PldVhZiZKDdPlbGUemR1tXexeUx3tyLTFw5P5q3y3gBt8rjEURcoT6p8-KE1MQgf97BuW0rk/s1600/e49094c6ae678c958f57ccab9e8d0e33.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bom dia amigos.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Vim agradecer todo o carinho e as mensagens de apoio que aqui me deixaram, neste momento tão difícil da minha vida. Muito obrigado. Que Deus vos abençoe.</span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-11307183195072096462024-01-03T15:27:00.001+00:002024-01-03T15:27:32.136+00:00PAUSA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTO3s8v9kHyEdMBFJc9J6TwyqvnrBYgBpQAdHOyBwflE880LC7eyYdfiCAOBJmBEm-o0u6CteJDgeeo2fdFO-MaLtlYmpJ9u5MXscbKFmzSLmvhUnTHkKMuqWvKOmrBoXG44Ng6nPPdkiBHAcxG22zaXWrET294IVuEU5wNmZyFAMQ8J4_jsj1GsjCX-E/s1000/luto-cinza-laco-preto-escrita-branca.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTO3s8v9kHyEdMBFJc9J6TwyqvnrBYgBpQAdHOyBwflE880LC7eyYdfiCAOBJmBEm-o0u6CteJDgeeo2fdFO-MaLtlYmpJ9u5MXscbKFmzSLmvhUnTHkKMuqWvKOmrBoXG44Ng6nPPdkiBHAcxG22zaXWrET294IVuEU5wNmZyFAMQ8J4_jsj1GsjCX-E/s320/luto-cinza-laco-preto-escrita-branca.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-38893919925897591232024-01-03T00:00:00.026+00:002024-01-03T00:00:00.140+00:00NATAL DOS SIMPLES <iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/m1oIm_TCNwc" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m1oIm_TCNwc/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Natal dos simples | José Afonso ao vivo no Coliseu</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As postagens até ao dia 6 continuarão a sair pois já estão agendadas Depois se verá... pois meu marido foi de novo internado, desta vez no Garcia da Horta, com suspeita de AVC. Está em observação.</span></div><div> </div>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-80106075361177844152024-01-02T00:00:00.001+00:002024-01-02T00:00:00.150+00:00POESIA ÀS TERÇAS - MIGUEL TORGA - HISTÓRIA ANTIGA<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxU505YUqY2jbhQwZhkh7knkwEQUkyEPXtZG5tdap2l8MS8fR-8ojgleuazSBRxIBfk99cQ78w7y7b69QrDMvXHrKnhE4WDdDzyk9O4DuFqwKcdaywgOxabP0-5wixHxLB3_Advz5IxCmm0Td-VGsAfws6Mn5_cqKswveRMLlt1DhXeb3aNbAJG2FcxM/s854/498.3.63.021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="854" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxU505YUqY2jbhQwZhkh7knkwEQUkyEPXtZG5tdap2l8MS8fR-8ojgleuazSBRxIBfk99cQ78w7y7b69QrDMvXHrKnhE4WDdDzyk9O4DuFqwKcdaywgOxabP0-5wixHxLB3_Advz5IxCmm0Td-VGsAfws6Mn5_cqKswveRMLlt1DhXeb3aNbAJG2FcxM/w400-h400/498.3.63.021.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /> <b>HISTÓRIA ANTIGA</b></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Era uma vez, lá na Judeia, um rei.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Feio bicho, de resto:</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Uma cara de burro sem cabresto</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E duas grandes tranças.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A gente olhava, reparava e via</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Que naquela figura não havia</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Olhos de quem gosta de crianças.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E, na verdade, assim acontecia.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Porque um dia,</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O malvado,</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Só por ter o poder de quem é rei</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Por não ter coração,</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sem mais nem menos,</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mandou matar quantos eram pequenos</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nas cidades e aldeias da nação.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mas, por acaso ou milagre, aconteceu</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Que, num burrinho pela areia fora,</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fugiu</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Daquelas mãos de sangue um pequenito</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Que o vivo sol da vida acarinhou;</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E bastou</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Esse palmo de sonho</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Para encher este mundo de alegria;</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Para crescer, ser Deus;</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E meter no inferno o tal das tranças,</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Só porque ele não gostava de crianças.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Miguel Torga</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nota, por aqui vão continuar as histórias e temas natalícios. até aos dia de </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Reis</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-34017921006882420242024-01-01T00:00:00.001+00:002024-01-01T00:00:00.164+00:001º DE JANEIRO - DIA MUNDIAL DA PAZ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOp60fun3oPTN20BceAMg7n2cloJV8lyHevLgiIVjGvn8NAc5j_cn9l4H0l2n_X__7IQFXgoXjHZOwfcscUNXL9Uox3NJWhueOeDP7PxEdnE1u-ydwub9uW-xWRM8IfnaW15aagx_6hakYI7JxoDzlKq5fg_atzEuUfVvPYZD27BV6hdVhCxpDxdOlA0/s500/21297053_usQQg.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="500" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOp60fun3oPTN20BceAMg7n2cloJV8lyHevLgiIVjGvn8NAc5j_cn9l4H0l2n_X__7IQFXgoXjHZOwfcscUNXL9Uox3NJWhueOeDP7PxEdnE1u-ydwub9uW-xWRM8IfnaW15aagx_6hakYI7JxoDzlKq5fg_atzEuUfVvPYZD27BV6hdVhCxpDxdOlA0/s320/21297053_usQQg.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />O dia 1 de janeiro, não é só dia de maior ressacas de todo o ano. Ele é também desde 1967 o Dia Mundial da Paz. Parece um paradoxo, festejar o Dia Mundial da Paz, quando a guerra e guerrilhas se fazem presentes não só pelas armas, que matam milhares de inocentes, mas também pela fome e pelas injustiças sociais, que matam muitos outros, só porque os senhores do mundo decidem que podem e devem exterminar os mais fracos.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Para os cristãos é o dia da Solenidade de Maria, Mãe de Deus, uma das Solenidades mais importantes da Igreja.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Para quem não sabe a origem desta Solenidade, <a href="https://pt.aleteia.org/2015/01/01/5-fatos-que-talvez-voce-nao-saiba-sobre-o-dia-1o-de-janeiro/">AQUI</a> encontram toda a</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> explicação.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Para vós que por aqui passais, seja qual for a vossa cor, ideologia, ou religião, desenho um ano muito feliz.</span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-71806075175785298472023-12-31T00:00:00.025+00:002023-12-31T00:00:00.133+00:00FELIZ ANO 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5A8D3MhsiMBum_3nZeRguEKajf1J2jVUJ71fMaWjfth2QUSZIGknI9F-ZZqASt8RsbkGl0JFho9vX64dXdF0Z08a5nbiAKZ6QQeKZlsqMHipBzEJLwWRMIlai987WhuYY175TmbBQAl84VTpJgGn4_RQoWVKZiqySZ3EjhLFZ-k-Ue73XTrwNgAlZQeg/s450/loonapix_17036289391150718574.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="318" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5A8D3MhsiMBum_3nZeRguEKajf1J2jVUJ71fMaWjfth2QUSZIGknI9F-ZZqASt8RsbkGl0JFho9vX64dXdF0Z08a5nbiAKZ6QQeKZlsqMHipBzEJLwWRMIlai987WhuYY175TmbBQAl84VTpJgGn4_RQoWVKZiqySZ3EjhLFZ-k-Ue73XTrwNgAlZQeg/w283-h400/loonapix_17036289391150718574.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A todos os amigos que por aqui passem eu desejo um Feliz Ano Novo, com muita Saúde, Paz, Amor, e se possível também algum dinheirito que até pode não dar felicidade, mas dá sempre muito jeito.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Na numerologia 2024 é o nº 8. Nela, o<span style="color: #333333;"> significado do número 8 representa renascimento, renovação e regeneração. Dizem os entendidos que representa o equilíbrio entre a energia que sai da terra e sobe para o espaço celeste e a que desce de lá para o planeta. É um número poderoso, diz-se que representa o Infinito.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #373742; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Em algumas religiões o número 8 representava Deus e o Universo, noutras representa o céu. Em quase todas as culturas e ideologias, o número 8 representa poder. Para os chineses simboliza fortuna.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #373742; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Portanto como a esperança é a última a morrer, vamos esquecer as terríveis previsões de Nostradamus e esperar um ano a nível pessoal e mundial, melhor do que foram os últimos.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #373742; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">FELIZ 2024</span></span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-65379947068735865162023-12-30T00:00:00.002+00:002023-12-30T00:00:00.158+00:00A CAIXINHA DE BEIJOS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl9IMCSHpQDWz5lcH9RW8-KHqEjiIUcGozzZZZqiv7vESJS-Irwf9hr9le9jwr5EgLUAzalU9oToslaWyV66e3DOoKueXnaCou320PqymrV0xm8WB2RNTkU9LM3JbkdHkPw7X2NNivehgGIbU9EFfkLBE4I53i5S1krhEx-tjaXQAu8EXBE14bqANOPU0/s507/istockphoto-184739429-170667a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="507" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl9IMCSHpQDWz5lcH9RW8-KHqEjiIUcGozzZZZqiv7vESJS-Irwf9hr9le9jwr5EgLUAzalU9oToslaWyV66e3DOoKueXnaCou320PqymrV0xm8WB2RNTkU9LM3JbkdHkPw7X2NNivehgGIbU9EFfkLBE4I53i5S1krhEx-tjaXQAu8EXBE14bqANOPU0/s320/istockphoto-184739429-170667a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #85780b; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;">.</span>Há algum tempo atrás, um pai castigou a sua filha de três anos por desperdiçar um
rolo dourado de papel de presente. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O dinheiro era pouco naqueles dias, razão pela qual o
homem ficou zangado ao ver a menina a embrulhar uma caixinha com aquele papel
dourado e a colocá-la debaixo da árvore de Natal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> Apesar de tudo, na manhã seguinte, a menina levou o presente ao pai e disse:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> — Isto é para ti, Papá! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ele sentiu-se envergonhado da sua reação, mas voltou a zangar-se quando viu que
a caixa estava vazia.
— Não sabes que, quando se dá uma caixa de presente a alguém, se coloca sempre
alguma coisa lá dentro? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A menina olhou para cima, com lágrimas nos olhos, e disse: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Oh, Papá, não está vazia. Eu soprei beijos para dentro da caixa. Todos para ti,
Papá.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> O pai, envergonhado, abraçou a menina e suplicou-lhe que lhe perdoasse. Dizem
que ele guardou a caixa dourada ao lado da cama durante anos e, sempre que se sentia
triste e deprimido, pegava nela e tirava um beijo imaginário, recordando o amor que a
filha ali tinha colocado.
Quantos de nós têm recebido, ao longo da vida, uma caixa dourada cheia de beijos… </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 1.305em; margin-top: 0px; overflow-anchor: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">De uma forma simples, mas sensível, cada um de nós tem recebido uma caixinha dourada, cheia de amor incondicional e beijos dos nossos pais, filhos, irmãos e amigos...</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 1.305em; margin-top: 0px; overflow-anchor: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ninguém tem uma propriedade ou posse mais bonita que esta.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nota : Este pequeno e terno conto, está publicado em vários sites na Internet classificado como uma parábola. </span></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-52131294153865051802023-12-29T00:00:00.000+00:002023-12-29T00:00:00.243+00:00SER PAI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEtFwJyGXVqQLhAXbGtUAGKrZRiRA1jfvkG4cMRkZi_XyUZ-8kHh_BtPYHU6diRQlFdMUE7zsqpAKnTO97js897HUdFCVMvwYUuIeN7JAyYt9YaZeuJFk_kSR8olFQpRL4fuyLve5F6jHsqCoAo6gNgNxECKeXf5_bUCyUNLjpjtjBFUAEqEw7IaaUyk/s640/porcelain-doll-1143628_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="376" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEtFwJyGXVqQLhAXbGtUAGKrZRiRA1jfvkG4cMRkZi_XyUZ-8kHh_BtPYHU6diRQlFdMUE7zsqpAKnTO97js897HUdFCVMvwYUuIeN7JAyYt9YaZeuJFk_kSR8olFQpRL4fuyLve5F6jHsqCoAo6gNgNxECKeXf5_bUCyUNLjpjtjBFUAEqEw7IaaUyk/s320/porcelain-doll-1143628_640.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">SER PAI</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Daniel quer uma boneca pelo Natal mas tem de ter olhos que abram e fechem. Ele quer deitá-la à noite e tapá-la.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tem de ter cabelo comprido. Quer penteá-la e fazer-lhe uma trança.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tem de ter braços e pernas que mexam.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Os pais ficam admirados.<span id="more-466" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Não preferes um comboio? — pergunta a mãe.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Ou uma caixa de legos? — pergunta o pai.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Eles estão preocupados.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Um rapaz que brinca com bonecas não vai ser um homem a sério — argumenta o pai.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mas Daniel não muda de ideias. Quer receber uma boneca pelo Natal.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Mas porquê? — pergunta a mãe.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Daniel pensa e responde:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Também quero ser pai.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: right;">Max Bolliger</span><br style="text-align: right;" /><em style="text-align: right;">30 Geschichten zum Verschenken</em><br style="text-align: right;" /><span style="text-align: right;">Lahr, Verlag Ernst Kaufmann, 1991</span><br style="text-align: right;" /><span style="text-align: right;">adaptado</span></span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-68433145055007845492023-12-28T00:00:00.002+00:002023-12-28T00:00:00.131+00:00BOLO -REI<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="979" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkol3Kd4IcKSTe5xhYf7fy_B7U7RfTVOJgOg_i1mNJdE4exlunl-cv_-nZRWx_dUAloAqkUD8yPHd5OHOetKxEBmRWBmboBV7RuM4UZnKr73gSFvMzeI_-7uCOitA5q-CX0H0VZdX2GCp_0LFqlwGAdb5_UTI0XqjYvdrNTe1bF_Oiv-k57ZA1uRGMPvM/s320/receita-de-bolo-rei-tradicional.jpg" width="320" /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BOLO-REI</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;">Todos os anos, quando os velhos Reis Magos acabam de atravessar a pequena estrada de areia que se esboça entre caminhos de musgo e lagos feitos de bocados de espelho partido; quando a estrela de prata que se suspende entre os dois exemplares de “A Paleta e o Mundo” de Mário Dionísio se recolhe para regressar à velha caixa de papelão, com trinta anos de viagens, cheia de bocados de jornal amachucados que ainda guardam notícias de dias que já foram e onde se embrulham os cordeirinhos, os pastores, as oferendas várias que o Menino Jesus recebeu, apesar de já lhe faltar a mãozinha direita que alguém partiu em excesso de limpeza; todos os anos, dizia, recordo a história que o Fernando Midões me contou, certa tarde em que misturámos poemas com lágrimas.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">De calças à golfe, lacinho à Baptista Bastos, fato de ver a Deus e celebrar o Dia de Reis, Fernando foi com a mãe jantar a casa das senhoras, gente de talher de prata, criadas de avental branco e crista engomada, cheias de silêncios e reverências.<span id="more-476" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Com olhos de amora madura, esse sorriso que ainda hoje conserva, sempre molhado de uma melancolia que tem de adivinhar-se mais do que ver-se, Fernando entrou na sala de jantar das anfitriãs, cujas portas só o espírito natalício abria, raros que eram os gestos de caridade e partilha. Assim se explicava a presença do rapazinho e sua mãe, viúva recente e que ali trabalhava de manhã à noite, para que a vida se assemelhasse ao que já fora.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Servidos os manjares da época: a canja onde as bolhas de gordura lembravam pequenos sóis fumegantes, o leitão de maçã vermelha na boca que olhava Fernando em gritos de sufoco que só ele, poeta em germinação, conseguia ouvir; os fritos vários que nas travessas exibiam a abastança, chegou finalmente e foi colocado em lugar de honra, no centro da mesa, ladeado por dois castiçais onde as velas vermelhas ardiam, o bolo-rei, roda magnífica de cores, frutas, pinhões, bocados de açúcar que lembravam neve e cujo esplendor ofuscava o dourado das filhós, os reflexos das garrafas de licor, o brilho dos copos de cristal.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fernando, pequenino, queixo tocando a toalha de renda, olhava aqueles mistérios de cor e perfume e falava, falava, dizia coisas tão a propósito que as senhoras, enlevadas, não se cansavam de sorrir e felicitar a mãe que tal filho tinha. Então, a mais velha, cabeção de renda e camafeu de marfim a fechar as golas, pega na faca de prata e com solenidade, meticulosamente, parte o bolo. A criada ajuda à distribuição nos pratinhos de sobremesa.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Agora, não se esqueçam: aquele ou aquela a quem calhar a fava terá de pagar o bolo-rei no ano que vem!</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E entre comentários de enlevo, gula, elogios à tessitura e ponto ideal do levedo da massa, à abundância das frutas, à maciez e agrado do paladar, se comeu a sobremesa.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A prenda calhou à criada.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Que sorte! Mostre lá!</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Olhe que medalha tão bonita! Parece uma libra de verdade. Até pode usar no fio que ninguém diz que não é autêntica.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— E tu, Fernandinho, não acabas de comer a tua fatia de bolo?</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Come que está bom e fofinho!</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fernando, subitamente silencioso, abanava a cabeça em negativas.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Então, filho! Não sabes falar? Responde às senhoras: queres mais um bocadinho de bolo?</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Ao menos acaba esse!</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Está cansado, coitadinho! Deixe-o lá.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fernando baixava a cabeça, cabelos lisos na testa. A noite ia adiantada. A Miguel Bombarda, onde moravam, ainda ficava longe. Sim, minha senhora, amanhã às oito cá estarei, se Deus quiser, para cortar o vestido novo e pôr em prova a saia do “tailleur”. Foi uma noite muito bonita. Muito obrigada! Fernando dá um beijo às senhoras e agradece. Diz obrigado, Fernando!</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fernando deu o beijo às senhoras, esticou a cara, pôs-se em bicos dos pés, encheu os olhos de gratidão.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Diz obrigado, filho! Mas o que te aconteceu?</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Deixe-o lá, coitadinho, perdeu a língua. É o sono, não é?</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Descem o elevador, abrem a porta da rua. A mãe, agastada, ralha:</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Mas que vergonha! Umas senhoras tão boas, recebem-nos como família, estavas a portar-te tão bem e agora isto, nem uma palavra de agradecimento, nem boa noite, é esta a educação que te tenho dado? Se o teu pai fosse vivo…</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Então, já na rua, o frio de Janeiro a gelar-lhe as mãos e o nariz, a névoa a transfigurar a rua e as pessoas, Fernando, finalmente, abre a boca e lá do fundo deixa voar o mistério da sua inesperada mudez:</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— É que me calhou a fava, mãezinha. Eu sei que tu não tens dinheiro para, no ano que vem, comprares um bolo-rei igual àquele.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E, na palma da mão pequenina, cuspiu a fava que ali nascia, quente ainda, do esconderijo em que estivera.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E ainda hoje, nas horas mais dolorosas, quando se esquece de mastigar a comida que arrefece no tabuleiro da cantina e prefere viajar no país da infância, Fernando Midões, meu irmão mais antigo, sente a ternura solidária do abraço e o húmido das lágrimas com que a mãe o aconchegou junto de si.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sem palavras, mãe.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-indent: 1cm;">Sem palavras.</span><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 6pt 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maria Rosa Colaço</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em>Viagem com Homem dentro </em></span><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(adaptação)</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 22.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 1cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Leiria, Editorial Diferença, 1998</span></span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-12815156530793475692023-12-27T20:48:00.000+00:002023-12-27T20:48:27.822+00:00O PRIMEIRO NATAL DO PARDALITO<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvtCKkQpVHfXXLPY5rcZn0mUh9U9xpu3xDsblBxfP_eG9wCL1jya-YCxgJB_BTQFLf18xqWyEznyPVjlo89WqElLotOrgc0M-gRYs3_LGIw5KsD1WUMMQA5J05nlqWBMZ5nmAqSH6q9t4WH7oRVFUA-OWlYWkiVGs2R35VRDesOnTKG61NNwm9w0MuaQ/s241/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="241" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvtCKkQpVHfXXLPY5rcZn0mUh9U9xpu3xDsblBxfP_eG9wCL1jya-YCxgJB_BTQFLf18xqWyEznyPVjlo89WqElLotOrgc0M-gRYs3_LGIw5KsD1WUMMQA5J05nlqWBMZ5nmAqSH6q9t4WH7oRVFUA-OWlYWkiVGs2R35VRDesOnTKG61NNwm9w0MuaQ/s1600/images.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O primeiro Natal do pardalito</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><br />Aqui há coisa de três semanas, um pardal do Rossio, daqueles que escolheram para poiso e morada os ramos das árvores que circundam a dita praça, começou assim a história que vamos contar:</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Companheiros pardais, pardalitos e pardalões, escutem todos, a notícia é importante.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Juntou-se a pardalada. Quem ali passe todas as tardes, à hora da saída dos empregos, não deve estranhar o arruído que <span id="more-826" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>vem das árvores despidas de folha, mas cheias, cheiinhas de passarinhos tagarelas. As pessoas andam na sua vida muito apressadas, e nem sequer dão conta da chilreada doida dos pardais:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Chega-te para lá! Aí sou eu”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Olha o pardalão a querer tomar-me o lugar…”.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Ai que ainda te dou uma bicada…”.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Não me provoques!”.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Toma que é para saberes”.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Deixa-me em paz”.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mas voltemos à nossa história.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Oiçamos o que o pardal tem para dizer:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Peço silêncio, se não calo-me — piava ele, tentando impor a ordem à assembleia.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Demorou o seu tempo.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Os pardais são uns espalhafatosos e uns gralhadores incorrigíveis.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— A notícia que vos trago importa a todos. Há bocadinho, estava eu poisado num ramo baixo, e ouvi uma conversa entre um cauteleiro e um engraxador. Sabem do que estavam a falar?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— De futebol — arriscou um.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Nada disso. Estavam a falar da Lotaria do Natal, imaginem! Portanto, o Natal está à porta, meus amigos. Espero que saibam o que isto significa…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Os pardais mais jovens não sabiam, mas calcularam que devia ser coisa grave, porque os pardais velhos, mesmo os mais gaiteiros e risonhos, ficaram, subitamente, de bico caído. As expressões eram de alarme e desalento:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Temos de mudar de vida.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Que desconforto!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Deviam ter-nos avisado.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— O tempo não está para grandes voos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E cada qual debandou para o seu ramo.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Neste ponto da história, parece-nos indispensável ouvir a fala de um avô pardal para o seu neto que, tal como vocês,<br />amigos leitores, não percebera patavina do sucedido.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Na quadra do Natal, que é uma grande festa dos homens — contava ele — multiplicam-se e crescem as luminárias por toda a parte. Nesta praça, então nem queiras saber! Fica tudo cheio de luzes e luzinhas de muitas cores, amarelas, azuis, vermelhas, verdes, que nos põem tontos. Onde os homens encontram um sítio para pendurar uma daquelas pêras de vidro que deita luz, penduram.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Deve ser bonito — observou o neto.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Bonito talvez seja, mas não para nós. Aparecem fios por toda a parte e, nos ramos das nossas árvores, estendem tantos, com as tais pêras penduradas, que ninguém se entende. Há dois anos, aproximei-me de uma dessas pêras, que se tinha partido, e apanhei um arrepio pelo corpo todo que julguei que me ficava de vez!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Então para onde vão os pardais passar o Natal? — perguntou o pardalito, atarantado.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Saltinho aqui, saltinho acolá, alguns escondem-se numas palmeiras, lá para cima, num sítio que os da cidade chamam Avenida. Outros conseguem chegar a um jardim, que me dizem ser muito tranquilo e saudável, um tal Jardim Botânico ou coisa parecida.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— E nós, avô?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Nós ficamos. Podíamos ir para um telhado próximo, se não andassem por lá os gatos que têm olhos mais perigosos do que todas as luminárias juntas. Olha, naturalmente, vamos para um sítio sossegado que eu conheço, num buraco daquele edifício, ali, no cimo da praça. É um bocado desabrigado e pouco cómodo, mas vais poder dizer, daqui em diante, que dormiste no Teatro Nacional…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Assim que chegaram os electricistas com as escadas, os cabos e os fios, a pardalada sumiu-se…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Numa destas noites, o pardalito deixou o avô a dormir com a cabeça debaixo da asa, e foi dar uma voltinha pelos arredores do seu novo poiso. O Rossio silencioso e exuberantemente iluminado pareceu-lhe um jardim de sonho.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Tanta luz de tanta cor! — exclamou.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nesse momento, um avião sobrevoava a cidade, em direcção ao aeroporto. No escuro do céu só se distinguia as luzes vermelhas da cauda.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Olha, lá vão duas luzes a fugir…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E dispunha-se a voar atrás delas, se o avô não tivesse acordado, entretanto.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Para onde ias? — perguntou-lhe ele.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O pardalito explicou. Comentário do velho pardal:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Que patetice! Ainda tens muito que aprender, pequeno, até te transformares num pardalão sabido!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">É o que nós também achamos, ao cabo desta história.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">António Torrado</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><a href="http://www.historiadodia.pt/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.historiadodia.pt</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15.2px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-67726060523474889122023-12-26T00:00:00.024+00:002023-12-26T00:00:00.133+00:00O NATAL EM QUE FIQUEI RICA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5LA_PlxRA5bGMhQ7iONG3RrJu-8wbTtURvBqt_KsaMVhjZobCN94gTbEjwERFreUw9GeoyoIvpx7gOxcehyHFw4qi7sHftH3qNMOFNZjlhF3PNBVDnISApVCHunPmJS3n3_8UxsTHiR-ll0mqzUl0fJNm_0BGQjBW7jPyA2uKBBR6HCfnWEtymxs7tAY/s612/gettyimages-1351877243-612x612.jpg" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5LA_PlxRA5bGMhQ7iONG3RrJu-8wbTtURvBqt_KsaMVhjZobCN94gTbEjwERFreUw9GeoyoIvpx7gOxcehyHFw4qi7sHftH3qNMOFNZjlhF3PNBVDnISApVCHunPmJS3n3_8UxsTHiR-ll0mqzUl0fJNm_0BGQjBW7jPyA2uKBBR6HCfnWEtymxs7tAY/s320/gettyimages-1351877243-612x612.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><em style="text-align: right;"><br />Ser pobre e satisfeito é ser rico. </em><em style="text-align: right;">E bastante rico.</em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">William Shakespeare</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Havia uma árvore naquele Natal. Não tão grande e frondosa como outras, mas estava pejada de enfeites e tesouros e resplandecia de luzes. Havia presentes, também. Alegremente embrulhados em papel vermelho ou verde, com etiquetas coloridas e fitas. Mas não tantos presentes como de costume. Eu já tinha reparado que a minha pilha de presentes era muito pequena.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nós não éramos pobres. Mas os tempos eram difíceis, os empregos escassos, o dinheiro à justa. A minha mãe e eu partilhávamos uma casa com a minha avó e com os meus tios. Naquele ano da Depressão, toda a gente espaçava refeições, levava sanduíches para o trabalho e ia a pé para poupar nos bilhetes de autocarro. Anos antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, já vivíamos no dia-a-dia, como muitas outras famílias, o que então se iria ouvir como <em>slogan</em>: <em>“Usa-o, aproveita-o ao máximo; faz com que funcione, ou passa sem ele.”</em><span id="more-1290" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Havia poucas escolhas. Compreendia pois porque era tão pequeno o meu monte de presentes. Compreendia, mas sentia, ainda assim, uma ponta de pesar à mistura com um complexo de culpa. Sabia que não poderia haver surpresas empolgantes naquelas poucas caixas vistosamente embrulhadas. E sabia que uma delas tinha um livro. A minha mãe arranjava sempre um livro para mim. Mas nada de vestidos novos, camisolas ou um roupão acolchoado e quentinho. Nenhum dos miminhos tão desejados na altura do Natal…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Havia uma caixa com o meu nome da parte da minha avó. Guardei-a para o fim. Talvez fosse uma camisola nova, talvez um vestido — um vestido azul. A minha avó e eu gostávamos ambas de lindos vestidos e de todas as tonalidades de azul. Soltando os devidos “Ohs” e “Ahs” ao ver a aromática barra de sabonete feito de mel, as luvas vermelhas, o já esperado livro (um novo da Nancy Drew!), rapidamente cheguei àquele último embrulho. Dei por mim a sentir uma centelha do entusiasmo do Natal… Era uma caixa bastante grande. Com vergonha de mim mesma por ser tão gananciosa, por esperar receber um vestido ou uma camisola (mas esperando na mesma!), abri a caixa.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Meias! Só meias! Soquetes, meias altas, até mesmo um par daquelas meias horrorosas de algodão branco que estavam sempre a escorregar e se enrodilhavam em volta dos joelhos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Esperando que ninguém tivesse dado conta do desapontamento, peguei num dos quatro pares e agradeci à minha avó, com um grande sorriso. Ela também sorria. Não com o seu sorriso educado e distraído de “Sim, querida,” mas com o seu sorriso feliz e radiante, de “Isto são coisas importantes para uma mulher!” Será que me esquecera de alguma coisa? Olhei de novo para a caixa no chão — nada, a não ser as meias. Só que agora eu conseguia ver que havia outro par por debaixo do que eu tinha pegado. Duas camadas de meias. E mais uma! Três camadas de meias!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A sorrir de verdade, comecei a retirá-las da caixa. Meias cor-de-rosa, meias brancas, meias verdes, meias de todos os tons inimagináveis de azul. Toda a gente estava a olhar, rindo comigo, enquanto eu atirava as meias ao ar e as contava. Doze pares de meias!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Levantei-me e dei um abraço tão apertado à minha avó que até nos doeu às duas. “Feliz Natal, menina Joan!” disse ela. “Agora, todos os dias, terás muitas escolhas a fazer. Estás rica, minha querida! ” E era verdade. Naquele Natal e durante todo o ano, todas as manhãs, eu escolhia do meu elegante armário da roupa interior qual o par de meias a usar. E sentia-me rica. E ainda sinto!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mais tarde, a minha mãe disse-me que a minha avó tinha andado a esconder aquelas meias durante quase um ano — poupando todas as moedinhas, comprando um par de cada vez. Um dia, tendo visto um lindo par de meias azuis com as beiras elásticas bordadas à mão, ela pedira mesmo ao compreensivo vendedor para deixar um sinal a reservá-las durante três semanas.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Dentro daquela caixa estava embrulhado um ano de amor.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Foi um Natal que eu nunca esquecerei.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A prenda da minha avó mostrou-me como as pequenas coisas podem ser importantes.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E como o amor nos faz a todos imensamente ricos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joan Cinelli</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><em>Chicken Soup for the Soul – Christmas Cheer</em></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC, 2008</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">(Tradução e adaptação)</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nota: Lamento pelo que aconteceu ontem com a fonte de onde li o conto que vos apresentei, nem sei porque o endereço da página saiu encriptado. Mais tarde voltei à página e emendei, mas não sei se viram. As minhas desculpas.</span></div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-59527726620691672052023-12-25T00:00:00.003+00:002023-12-25T18:07:06.559+00:00HOJE É NATAL<div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP97W37sec3d0jQUrZRsxuWGTiJjMPYDd8ILRqTVlN4FrWPfAmqY5xCwWwgEG5K4aqPLekuiXltdsj3HL706FSk5WqKu_Pbzrgei6hHiQx5G787iXP9tN_YWnT8is-zEGbW7S8GPo3Ajo/s1600/velas-decorativas-natal-16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP97W37sec3d0jQUrZRsxuWGTiJjMPYDd8ILRqTVlN4FrWPfAmqY5xCwWwgEG5K4aqPLekuiXltdsj3HL706FSk5WqKu_Pbzrgei6hHiQx5G787iXP9tN_YWnT8is-zEGbW7S8GPo3Ajo/s320/velas-decorativas-natal-16.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O avô Fernando chegou de longe com uma mala muito pesada. Ajudei-o a levá-la para o meu quarto e não o larguei mais, enquanto não a abriu. O que traria ele dentro daquela mala tão grande? Prendas de Natal? Surpresas? Brinquedos? Livros? – perguntava a mim próprio. Mortinho de curiosidade, andei à sua volta como uma mosca, a zumbir perguntas.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Ó avô, o que é que trazes?</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Tem calma, tem paciência, que logo te mostro! – aconselhou, ainda com a voz ofegante por ter carregado comigo aquela mala.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Anda lá, diz-me só a mim, que eu não digo a mais ninguém!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— As prendas e as surpresas só se mostram logo, depois da ceia. Não sejas chato!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Diz-me, que eu prometo guardar segredo! – insisti.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Como tinha de entregar à minha mãe uns produtos para a ceia, que tinha trazido da sua terra, começou a abrir a mala devagarinho e eu fiquei à espera que de lá de dentro saísse qualquer coisa de mágico: um avião que voasse – vrrruuum, vrrruuummm – ou uma coisa assim… capaz de fazer pasmar os meus amigos.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Mas não. Apareceram, entre a escova de dentes, a gilete, o pincel da barba, uma toalha de rosto e o pijama do meu avô, vários embrulhinhos amarradoscom fitas coloridas, uma garrafa de azeite, um queijo, uma broa de Avintes, um frasco de azeitonas e uma garrafa que parecia ter dentro água amarela.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Avô, que prenda me vais oferecer?</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Que prenda me vais dar a mim?</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Não lhe respondi. A um canto, estava um rolo envolvido em papel azul-marinho, prateado.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— E isso, o que é? É um telescópio? É um caleidoscópio?</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Olha que tu és muito pegajoso! Está bem, pronto! Eu digo-te, se não, nunca mais te calas. Isso é uma luz para o Natal!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— É de ligar à electricidade? É de acender? É uma estrela para pôr no presépio? – perguntei, agitado.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Não. Isto é o Espírito do Natal! – exclamou o meu avô, com mistério na voz.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Espírito? Igual àquele da Lâmpada do Aladino? Se esfregar, sai um génio que faz tudo o que a gente quer? Ó avô és mesmo fixório! Mostra, avô, mostra!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Para não me aturar mais, ele ia a desembrulhar o rolo de papel prateado, quando foi salvo da minha curiosidade pelo chamamento da minha mãe:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Venham para a mesa!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O meu avô, ainda a arfar da viagem, desceu devagar com a mão no corrimão, e eu acompanhei-lhe os passos.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O meu pai fechou-se na sala de jantar e, querendo fazer um bonito, não nos deixou entrar na sala, onde a mesa já estava posta para a ceia.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As luzes estavam apagadas e a porta fechada. Quando íamos para entrar, o meu pai, muito teatreiro e eufórico, fez:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Te te te tzzéééé! ! ! – e abriu a porta e as luzes.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Senti uma baforada quente e fui abraçado por um cheirinho a rabanadas, a sonhos, a filhoses, a aletria com desenhos de canela e a bilharacos, que era um doce que o meu avô apreciava muito.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A iluminação da sala estava um espanto, a mesa um espectáculo, a lareira soltava línguas de fogo e a música ambiente eram as vozes de anjos de um CD que a minha mãe comprara de propósito para aquela noite.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Por cima da lareira, o meu pai pôs o presépio e ao canto construiu uma Árvore de Natal, apenas com ramos de pinheiro, porque pensava ele que as árvores não se deviam abater.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Disse-me uma vez:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Se um dia tiveres de cortar uma árvore, deves pedir-lhe desculpa, ouviste? Uma árvore é um ser vivo!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O meu avô dirigiu-se ao presépio, mirou-o e remirou-o e, por fim, disse:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Que engraçado! Nunca vi um presépio assim: o Menino Jesus está ao colo da mãe e a manjedoura vazia. Ó Castro, dou-te os meus parabéns, o presépio está muito bonito!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Os olhos do meu pai brilharam com o elogio.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">E sabem porquê? É que o meu avô achava que o meu pai era um bocado azelhote para fazer coisas e habilidades com as mãos.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Era a primeira vez que ele vinha a nossa casa, depois do segundo casamento da minha mãe.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Para o impressionar, os meus pais receberam-no com mimos e atenções como se fosse um rei.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Por causa disso, eu comecei a ficar um bocado chateado. Até parecia que os meus pais, naquela noite, decidiram riscar-me do mapa das suas atenções.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Mas não, para mim, aquele Natal não foi só uma noite de paz, foi uma noite de pazes.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Ah, já me esquecia… Olha, Mário, vai à minha mala buscar o Espírito do Natal, mas trá-lo com cuidado, não lhe mexas, ouviste? – pediu-me o avô Fernando.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O meu pai e a minha mãe cruzaram os olhos de interrogação, ao saber que o meu avô tinha trazido para casa um espírito.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Subi a correr as escadas que davam para o meu quarto e senti que os bichos carpinteiros da curiosidade me atacavam com perguntas:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— O que estaria dentro daquele rolo de papel prateado? Seria mesmo um espírito? E os espíritos têm a forma de um charuto comprido? Seria uma brincadeira ou uma história do meu avô? Pelo sim e pelo não, passei os dedos, ao de leve, pelo rolo.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">E se o tal espírito saísse do tubo e me falasse: “Diz-me, Mário, meu amo, que desejas? Diz-me, que a tua vontade será satisfeita!”</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Se isso me acontecesse, o que é que eu desejaria? Sei lá, se não ficasse atrapalhado, era capaz de pedir:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Ó alma boa, ó espírito da luz, quero que arranjes alguém que me faça os deveres de casa, quero um avião a sério que aterre no meu pátio e quero uma moto a motor!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Estava a minha imaginação com gás na tábua quando ouvi a voz do meu avô:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Então, vens ou não?!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Desci as escadas a correr e entreguei-lhe o rolo de papel prateado. Fiquei à espera, para ver o que de lá saía.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Era agora, era agora que eu ia conhecer o tal Espírito do Natal. Como o avô desembrulhou o rolo com muito cuidadinho, eu comecei a acreditar que, se calhar, havia ali mesmo qualquer mistério.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Desenrolou, desenrolou, até que… apareceu uma simples vela de cera branca.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Oooohhhh! Uma vela! – disse de mim para mim, muito desiludido.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Embora a sala estivesse inundada de luz, o avô Fernando riscou um fósforo, pediu à minha mãe um castiçal, acendeu a vela e colocou-a no centro da mesa. Depois, disse:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Na chama desta vela mora o Espírito do Natal! Nesta noite, nesta mesa e nesta chama, para mim estarão presentes todos os nossos antepassados, todas as nossas recordações e todas as pessoas de quem gostamos. Está o meu pai e a minha mãe, está a tua… está a tua… avó que Deus tenha…</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O meu avô parou de falar e, em vez de palavras, saíram apenas lágrimas grossas que escorreram pela cara abaixo.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O silêncio que se fez foi tão grande que ficámos todos muito encolhidos, sem saber o que dizer.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Quem nos salvou do peso do silêncio e das lágrimas foi a minha mãe:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Então, então, pai, hoje é Natal! – falou baixinho a minha mãe, misturando a fala com um beijo.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Vamos à ceia! – disse, por fim, o avô, ainda com a coragem engasgada.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Depois, comemos, rimos, jogámos ao rapa, ao tira, ao deixa e ao põe até que chegou a hora da distribuição das prendas.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O meu pai deu-me um livro, a minha mãe uma camisa aos quadrados e o meu avô umas grossas meias de lã.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Eu fiquei muito desconsolado porque esperava um brinquedo de espanto, daqueles que fizessem roer de inveja os colegas da rua. O meu avô andava sempre com os pés frios e trouxe meias de lã porque, se calhar, pensou que sofríamos todos do mesmo mal.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Estava tudo a correr bem. Até o meu pai, que andava quase sempre, “cabisbundo” e “meditabaixo”, ria-se, ria-se até mais não. A certa altura, o avô chamou-me para a sua beira e disse-me:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Olha para a luz da vela. Fixa o Espírito do Natal! O que vês? Eu lá olhei, mas o que via era que a chama se inclinava, lenta mente, ora para um lado, ora para o outro.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Vês alguma coisa?</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Não vejo nada. Só a chama a dizer não, devagarinho!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Para mim, na Noite de Natal, esta chama significa tudo o que o ser humano tem de bom dentro de si: a saudade do amor, da amizade e da partilha das coisas. É por isso que lhe chamo o Espírito do Natal. Nesta noite, quando fixo a luz da vela, diante dos meus olhos passam, como se fosse em cinema, histórias e vidas das pessoas que amei e se cruzaram comigo ao longo dos anos.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Estou agora a olhar para ela e estou a lembrar-me do Natal mais lindo que eu tive em toda a minha vida. Queres que te conte?</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Conta, avô, conta!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Mas olha que é uma história triste! Mas verdadeira!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Não faz mal! Mesmo assim, conta!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A minha mãe e o meu pai aproximaram-se do sítio onde nós estávamos. O avô fixou os seus olhos de formiga na chama da vela e, com uma voz quente e pausada…</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— No tempo em que o Natal custava a chegar, vivia eu numa casa pequenina. Eu era pobre e não tinha brinquedos, mas não me importava. Bastava o cheiro que andava pelas ruas e pelos caminhos a fazer miminhos de fraternidade no coração das pessoas.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Era por isso que, quando tinha a tua idade, na véspera de Natal, ao passar pelas outras pessoas, dizia, cheio de alegria:</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Hoje é Natal!</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A pouca distância de minha casa, havia uma outra, que não era bem casa. As paredes eram de chapa velha e o chão de terra batida.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O vento entrava por tudo o que era frincha e o frio estava ali plantado.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Uma fogueira fazia de fogão e a única cama que havia era feita de paus de pinheiro, ainda por descascar.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">E nessa casa que não era bem casa, tão pequenininha e tão pobre de tudo, morava a Ti Adelaide Tintureira e os seus filhos: a Rosa e o Domingos.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Esta mulher de pele enrugada, de olhos verdes e vida amargurada foi, um dia, transformada em pássaro negro. Por duas vezes se quis matar, atirando-se da ponte de D. Luís para o rio Douro.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Da primeira vez, as saias largas que usava amorteceram a queda e um barqueiro que por ali andava viu-a e, remando rapidamente, retirou-a do rio, ainda com vida.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Da segunda vez que se quis matar estava muito vento. Ao atirar-se da ponte, uma rajada empurrou-a contra os fios de electricidade e neles ficou enrodilhada. Os bombeiros tiraram-na com vida, apenas ficando magoada no peito.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Disseram as velhas da aldeia que tudo isso aconteceu porque o Anjo da Guarda da Ti Adelaide Tintureira, cansado de a proteger durante uma vida cheia de aflições, adormeceu duas vezes.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">E, nessas duas vezes, a Morte, ao ver aquela mulher de olhos tristes, transformada em ave negra, não a quis e devolveu-a, sã e salva, para viver o resto do seu destino.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Naquele tempo, a Ti Adelaide Tintureira e os filhos viviam da venda da lenha, apanhada nos pinhais, e de pequenos serviços que lhe encomendavam. Ela e os filhos vestiam do que algumas “almas caridosas” lhe davam.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Passavam muito mal e, quando se vive assim, nem é bom sentir o cheiro do Natal nem ouvir falar de prendas nem de rabanadas. Isso só serve para entristecer a vida de quem tem pouquinho.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— Natal é um dia como os outros! – dizia a Ti Adelaide Tintureira para tentar convencer os filhos a não olharem para as roupas novas que os outros meninos vestiriam no dia seguinte.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Na noite de Natal, em cima da nossa pequena mesa, já fumegava a travessa de bacalhau cozido com batatas e couves-galegas.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Nesse ano, para além das rabanadas, havia um bocadinho de queijo, uns pastéis comprados no Porto e uma garrafa de vinho fino, oferecida pelo Ti Zé Estureta, como consoada, por lhe gastarmos da mercearia.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Para operários de vida dura, aquela ceia de Natal era quase um banquete de rei.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Quando íamos iniciar a refeição da noite de Natal…</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">— E se fôssemos chamar a Ti Adelaide Tintureira e os seus filhos para cearem com a gente? – propôs o meu pai.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A minha mãe disse que sim e, momentos depois, eu batia à porta da barraca da Ti Adelaide Tintureira.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Lá dentro, a chama da candeia de azeite furava a escuridão e os olhos da Rosa e do Domingos enchiam de tristeza aquela noite, que não era bem igual às outras.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Sem saber o que dizer nem fazer, seguiram-me até à porta da minha cozinha.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Disseram boa noite com voz sumida e, quando se sentaram à volta da mesa daquela família de pobres operários, que era a minha, dei com uns olhos verdes, acesos de alegria.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Eram os da Ti Adelaide Tintureira que pagava aquele gesto bonito com um olhar que já não usava há muito tempo: um olhar de felicidade.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Quando acabámos de comer e de jogarmos o rapa a pinhões, vim cá fora e, pelo intervalo das folhas de uma laranjeira, vi, lá longe, o brilho de uma estrelinha que mais ninguém viu.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Agora, quando olho para o céu, lembro-me dos olhos acesos da Ti Adelaide Tintureira, que foram morar para as estrelas e que me aparecem, na noite de Natal, para me recordarem dos bons sentimentos que ainda não foram apagados do coração das pessoas.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #646464; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Quando o avô Fernando se calou, olhei para a chama da vela e senti que o Espírito do Natal estava ali e me tinha visitado naquela noite.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfeff; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #646464;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: right;">José Vaz</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: right;">Hoje é Natal<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: right;">Ed. Gailivro, 2000</span></span>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-47230758448708918982023-12-24T00:00:00.003+00:002023-12-24T00:00:00.133+00:00O COMBOIO DE NATAL<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4Dsqv4SQ7bmfFtdJVZjeLjNyO3TdtDGNi0Gp2vnLvmSqii1IOEo8O4DnmebBufzPtCK09Ea2r3CUAdXw_mhQX5hmNM0NN1_5-cewIM3AEa3lISJbznbMK9Uk2u9-S3k_arzkxCYHoyyrqq2kgh1O9KQjdqr35T8KhikI_I8lNXdkLIaJtoaSEDyx7OM/s5587/08_180_Bf_Amarante,_7029_101.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3734" data-original-width="5587" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4Dsqv4SQ7bmfFtdJVZjeLjNyO3TdtDGNi0Gp2vnLvmSqii1IOEo8O4DnmebBufzPtCK09Ea2r3CUAdXw_mhQX5hmNM0NN1_5-cewIM3AEa3lISJbznbMK9Uk2u9-S3k_arzkxCYHoyyrqq2kgh1O9KQjdqr35T8KhikI_I8lNXdkLIaJtoaSEDyx7OM/s320/08_180_Bf_Amarante,_7029_101.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O comboio de Natal</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Há muitos, muitos anos, numa terra bem distante, um ferroviário, de nome Vassil, vivia com a filha, Malina, numa pequena estação.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Competia a Vassil zelar pela segurança do caminho-de-ferro que atravessava as montanhas, já que súbitas quedas de rochas podiam bloquear a linha e causar acidentes.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Na tarde da véspera do Dia de Natal, Vassil estava, como de costume, a trabalhar na estação. Em casa, Malina ocupava-se da decoração da árvore e não parava de pensar no presente que o pai lhe prometera: o que seria? Estava desejosa de o ver regressar e corria para a janela constantemente, a ver se o avistava.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">De repente, ouviu um ruído semelhante a um trovão. A sua cadelinha, Bella, desatou a ladrar e a arranhar a porta com força.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Deve ter sido uma queda de rochas — exclamou Malina, horrorizada, correndo para fora de casa.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Com efeito, a linha de caminho-de-ferro encontrava-se bloqueada por uma enorme quantidade de rochas. Depois do estrondo, instalara-se na montanha um profundo silêncio. Malina sentiu-se assustada:<span id="more-953" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— O comboio expresso vai chegar dentro de meia hora! E agora, o que faço? O que faria o meu pai? Já sei! Tenho de avisar o maquinista.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Pensou durante algum tempo. Depois, correu para casa, acompanhada por Bella, aos saltos. Malina lembrou-se do que o pai lhe tinha dito vezes, vezes sem conta:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Se a linha estiver bloqueada, coloca-te 400 metros à frente do acidente e acende uma fogueira. Depois, acena sem parar com uma lanterna para avisar o maquinista e dar-lhe tempo para travar.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A menina pegou na árvore de Natal e levou-a consigo. Nem deu pelas decorações que iam caindo pelo chão. Correu pela linha abaixo em direcção ao túnel, arrastando a árvore. Faltavam apenas 15 minutos para a chegada do comboio! O túnel estava escuro e silencioso e o brilho da neve ao fundo mal se via. Malina, porém, continuou a arrastar a árvore, sem largar a lanterna acesa. Em breve saiu do túnel e começou a atravessar a ponte; agora, o expresso far-se-ia ouvir a qualquer momento.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Chegou, por fim, ao local que escolhera. Estava sem fôlego devido à corrida e as suas mãos tremeram quando pegou fogo à árvore. As chamas altas que se ergueram no céu nevado mais pareciam velas gigantes. Malina conseguia ouvir o comboio a aproximar-se cada vez mais. De repente, ei-lo a sair do túnel, envolto em grossas nuvens de fumo.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Foi então que o maquinista viu a fogueira e a lanterna. Puxou imediatamente pelo travão de emergência e desligou a locomotiva. Ouviu-se o som estridente do apito. O enorme comboio tremeu, estremeceu e, lentamente, acabou por se imobilizar. Lá dentro, andava tudo aos tropeções. Os passageiros tombaram dos assentos e as bagagens caíram no chão. O caos instalou-se no vagão-restaurante: empregados, pratos, bolos e peixe viram-se, de repente, atirados ao ar.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lá fora, rodeada pela neve, Malina permanecia imóvel, a segurar a lanterna acesa e a olhar para o enorme comboio arquejante. O maquinista e o revisor saltaram do comboio e foram ter com a menina.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Olha, é a Malina! — exclamou o maquinista.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Há uma enorme queda de rochas em frente do túnel grande e eu tinha de vos avisar — disse Malina.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Os dois homens entreolharam-se com admiração. Em breve, todos no comboio sabiam da queda de rochas e de como a menina os tinha salvado. Alguém disse:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— A pobrezinha deve estar cheia de frio, ali no meio da neve.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E logo Malina foi conduzida ao vagão-restaurante, que estava bem quentinho e cheio de rostos que a fitavam. Percebeu que as pessoas falavam entre si e, de repente, viu-se rodeada de presentes! À entrada da carruagem, o pai observava-a. Vassil segurava nas mãos um cordeirinho branco como neve, com manchinhas negras atrás das orelhas. “Que magnífico presente de Natal!” pensou Malina, correndo para o pai.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Anda, pai, vamos para casa — pediu. — A Bella deve estar a pensar no que nos terá acontecido.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O maquinista esperava-os lá fora com uma bela árvore de Natal, que tinha ido à floresta cortar para eles. Agora, Malina e o pai já podiam celebrar o Natal como queriam.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sabem porque conheço esta história?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">É que, há muitos anos, quando era criança, passei um Natal nessa mesma estação de comboio, com a minha tia Malina e o meu avô Vassil…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: right;">Ivan Gantschev</span><br style="text-align: right;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">The Christmas Train</span><br style="text-align: right;" /><span style="text-align: right;">Harmondsworth, Viking Kestrel, 1987</span><br style="text-align: right;" /><span style="text-align: right;">(tradução e adaptação)</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: right;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: right;">FELIZ NATAL</span></span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-59824903370262155112023-12-23T00:00:00.001+00:002023-12-23T00:00:00.138+00:00UM PRESENTE DE NATAL QUE NUNCA ESQUECEREI<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76gw_n0psd-OGqWU0fWxrSuAeC2T8R-DbViqXV4i2y_q_bEQPT9noj3xc_ZjGpOLPmCeY-GdbtTx8k0hhi6D-mQYBPg3QulJp4kDkyx1RWKu6h6ILLlE2Z6AjnVOPYT4IuBFmw6iJUz_dveGn_MCputupEZ_s_EaPJDmZBHxGA_U-rUvdMFBv70FNlkc/s600/depositphotos_193178322-stock-photo-single-black-tourmaline-mineral-white.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76gw_n0psd-OGqWU0fWxrSuAeC2T8R-DbViqXV4i2y_q_bEQPT9noj3xc_ZjGpOLPmCeY-GdbtTx8k0hhi6D-mQYBPg3QulJp4kDkyx1RWKu6h6ILLlE2Z6AjnVOPYT4IuBFmw6iJUz_dveGn_MCputupEZ_s_EaPJDmZBHxGA_U-rUvdMFBv70FNlkc/s320/depositphotos_193178322-stock-photo-single-black-tourmaline-mineral-white.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><em><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><em><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><em><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A vida de uma criança é como um pedaço de papel onde todos aqueles que passam deixam uma marca.</span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Provérbio chinês</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ele entrou na minha vida há vinte anos, encostado à ombreira da porta da sala 202, onde eu dava aulas ao quinto ano. Usava sapatos de borracha três vezes maiores do que os pés, calças aos quadrados rasgadas nos joelhos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Daniel fez esta entrada banal na escola de uma aldeia bizarra, ao lado de um lago, conhecida pelo dinheiro antigo, pelas casas coloniais brancas e pelas caixas de correio de latão. Disse-nos que a última escola que frequentara ficava situada num condado vizinho.<span id="more-384" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Colhíamos fruta — disse ele, sem rodeios.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Suspeitava de que este rapaz sorridente, amistoso e mal vestido, vindo de uma família de imigrantes, fora atirado para uma jaula de leões do quinto ano, que nunca tinham visto calças rasgadas. Se ele reparou nos risinhos, nada revelou. Não foi rude nem agressivo.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As vinte e cinco crianças do quinto ano olharam para Daniel com desconfiança até ao jogo de bola dessa tarde. Ele deu então a primeira tacada na bola. Isso mereceu-lhe um pouco de respeito dos críticos do vestiário da sala 202.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A seguir foi a vez de Charles. Charles era a criança menos atlética, a mais pesada de todo o quinto ano. Depois do segundo golpe do batedor, no meio de olhos revirados e dos gemidos da turma, Daniel aproximou-se e falou calmamente para as costas arqueadas de Charles.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Esquece, pá. Tu és capaz.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Charles animou-se, sorriu, endireitou-se e atacou sem demora. Mas, nesse preciso momento, desafiando a ordem social daquela selva onde entrara, Daniel começou a mudar as coisas — e a mudar-nos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">No fim do Outono, todos tínhamos gravitado na sua direcção. Dava-nos todo o tipo de lições. Como atrair um peru selvagem. Como saber se a fruta está madura antes da primeira dentada. Como tratar os outros, mesmo Charles. Principalmente Charles. Nunca usava os nossos nomes, chamava-me «Menina» e aos alunos «rapazes».</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">No dia anterior às férias do Natal, os alunos traziam sempre presentes à professora. Era um ritual — abrir todas as caixas, observar o perfume caro ou o lenço ou a carteira de cabedal, e agradecer à criança.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nessa tarde, Daniel aproximou-se da minha secretária e segredou-me ao ouvido:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— As caixas para a mudança chegaram ontem à noite — disse ele, sem emoção. — Partimos amanhã.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Quando percebi a notícia, os meus olhos encheram-se de lágrimas. Ele quebrou o silêncio constrangedor, falando-me da mudança. Então, quando me recompus, tirou uma pedra cinzenta do bolso. Deliberadamente e com gestos decididos, colocou-a suavemente na secretária.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Pressenti que aquilo era algo de extraordinário, mas a minha prática com perfumes e sedas deixara-me lamentavelmente desprevenida para responder.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— É para si — disse ele, fixando os olhos nos meus. — Puxei-lhe o lustro.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nunca me esqueci dessa manhã.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Passaram anos. Todos os Natais, a minha filha pede que lhe conte esta história. Começa sempre depois de ela pegar na pequena pedra polida que está na minha secretária. Em seguida, aninha-se no meu colo e eu começo. As primeiras palavras da história nunca variam.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— A última vez que vi o Daniel, ele deu-me esta pedra como presente e falou-me das caixas. Isso foi há muito tempo, antes de tu nasceres.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Agora já é um homem — termino. Juntas, imaginamos onde estará e o que andará a fazer.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Aposto que é boa pessoa — diz a minha filha.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Depois acrescenta:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Conta-me o fim da história.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sei o que ela quer ouvir: a lição de amor e carinho aprendida por uma professora com um rapaz sem nada — e com tudo — para dar. Um rapaz que vivia no meio de caixas. Toco na pedra, recordando.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Olá, rapaz — digo, suavemente. — Esta é a «Menina». Espero que já não precises das caixas. E feliz Natal, onde quer que estejas.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Linda DeMers Hummel</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jack Canfield; Mark Victor Hansen<br /><em>Canja de galinha para a alma – O tesouro do Natal</em><br />Mem Martins, Lyon Edições, 200</span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-49839839201687818902023-12-22T00:00:00.010+00:002023-12-22T00:00:00.167+00:00FELIZ NATAL, AMIGOS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDe_sD18qE4W0jX9hsFj9IwunIYJ_lyDH3MyYbCVuFMo_uw1U9g8Bm0IY-gkiKBMI2CXd1JElAnETpEXmrQiS-vtIExrTEAW5uiXaeb8gh5aR9QXV00XCkjHPE9-0VLULIteVkBewCHWswUrkZVfwXwlQP5eAM52_-rl493PglhmGJ5NpFJ2bKHGrjJw/s1500/23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDe_sD18qE4W0jX9hsFj9IwunIYJ_lyDH3MyYbCVuFMo_uw1U9g8Bm0IY-gkiKBMI2CXd1JElAnETpEXmrQiS-vtIExrTEAW5uiXaeb8gh5aR9QXV00XCkjHPE9-0VLULIteVkBewCHWswUrkZVfwXwlQP5eAM52_-rl493PglhmGJ5NpFJ2bKHGrjJw/s320/23.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Desejo a todos os amigos que por aqui passam, um Santo e Feliz Natal, com muita saúde e muito amor que são ocs melhores presentes desta vida.</span><p></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-13727975824127847842023-12-21T00:00:00.006+00:002023-12-21T00:00:00.131+00:00O NATAL DAS BONECAS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQF5q0_2lPLnoRqRB4QTZYDUMlDfep4yftrT0R1j8_XETQBpeXLnaHIwbf8JEMf-yVrcs8z2bvJTFun3dImUMO-mTRwJWOGYY6PCSwTwjHxjm6mUOevksyvpODhYMkkiB3va-3XpNiF1dMnOgWS5XG6EOO7kPUJBKRjRgva399ZxBJY1sfw-oc6AAfFY/s550/bonecas-antigas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="550" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQF5q0_2lPLnoRqRB4QTZYDUMlDfep4yftrT0R1j8_XETQBpeXLnaHIwbf8JEMf-yVrcs8z2bvJTFun3dImUMO-mTRwJWOGYY6PCSwTwjHxjm6mUOevksyvpODhYMkkiB3va-3XpNiF1dMnOgWS5XG6EOO7kPUJBKRjRgva399ZxBJY1sfw-oc6AAfFY/s320/bonecas-antigas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O NATAL DAS BONECAS</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;">A rua tinha luzes de muitas cores que, encavalitadas nos postes, faziam desenhos de Natal. E dançavam ao som duma música cheia de sonoridades leves como algodão. De vez em quando passava um automóvel apressado. Apesar disto, ali da montra onde se encontravam, tudo era frio e distante. Eram duas bonecas que ninguém quis comprar.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Este é o nosso primeiro Natal…</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— E, decerto, o último. Se ninguém nos comprou, vamos ser retiradas da montra e arrumadas, ou entregues à caridade, ou destruídas.<span id="more-721" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Assim será, com certeza. A nossa vida depende das leis do mercado.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E foram conversando para passar o tempo, ora filosofando sobre a sua efémera existência, a sua matéria breve, ora imaginando como seria o Natal das pessoas, que só conheciam de ver passar na rua, ou da loja, quando entravam para comprar bonecas.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Esta é belíssima, elegante, tem um belo vestido e uma cintura fina.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Esta tem uma expressão de felicidade, um olhar doce.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Aquela, de cabelos louros, tem no rosto o sol abrasador do verão.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mesmo para uma boneca, era triste ficar ali na noite de Natal a olhar a solidão da rua. Sobretudo quando imaginavam a alegria das outras bonecas que tinham sido vendidas: a emoção de sair de dentro dos embrulhos, de sentir todas as atenções, de receber um nome, de entrar na família fantástica das crianças.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Todas as pessoas deviam ter uma casa, porque ninguém passava na rua. Todos os meninos deviam ter brinquedos na noite de Natal, porque os brinquedos mais bonitos tinham sido vendidos. Em todo o mundo devia haver alegria e surpresa e magia naquela noite, porque era dessa forma que a imaginavam.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Dentro das casas, o ar estaria povoado de seres fantásticos, que se moviam como se não tivessem peso. Esvoaçavam como se fossem pequenos pássaros transparentes. E isto criava uma grande excitação entre as crianças. Elas próprias se sentiam tão leves que os seus movimentos eram como os movimentos dos astronautas: dançavam, elevavam-se, sorriam, tocavam-se, cantavam melodias afinadíssimas e finas como um fio de cristal.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As bonecas entravam também nesta dança fantástica como se fossem pessoas de verdade. A árvore de Natal transformara-se numa enorme tília de grandes ramos. Havia baloiços pendurados nos ramos. Havia pequeninas casas suspensas nos ramos. As estrelas desciam e poisavam nos ramos. E todos aqueles seres – crianças, anjos, pássaros, estrelas e bonecas – percorriam os ramos, como se fossem caminhos, entravam nas casinhas, dançavam nos baloiços, agarravam-se à cauda das estrelas. Entre os ramos mais distantes construíam passadiços e imaginavam rios por onde às vezes desciam: bebericavam, tomavam um banho, atiravam salpicos de água uns aos outros.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Estavam assim imaginando, quando se aproximou da montra uma figura muitíssimo estranha: tinha umas roupas sujas e gastas, os cabelos sujos e desalinhados, a barba suja e por fazer e nos seus olhos havia fome, desolação e desprezo. Falava sozinho palavras imperceptíveis.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Esta figura não deve ser de cá…</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Talvez tenha descido de outro planeta, um planeta onde não há Natal, nem casas, nem anjos, nem estrelas, nem amigos…</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A rua continuava deserta e o homem continuava ali fitando a montra e falando desordenadamente. De nenhum lado surgia uma sombra, uma voz, um movimento, um pássaro branco, um anjo de tule, um caule de luz. Até a música de algodão pendurada nos postes se tinha já calado.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Como deve ser triste a vida na terra, na cidade ou no planeta donde veio…</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nada no seu rosto fazia lembrar a alegria: nenhuma expressão, nenhum traço, nenhuma palavra.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">De vez em quando estendia o braço, apontando não se sabia o quê, apontando por apontar; e o vento gelado da noite alinhava os seus cabelos na direcção do braço. E nada lá ao longe fazia lembrar a liberdade. Outras vezes ficava estático e imóvel, fitando o infinito. Parecia uma estátua feita do mais cruel abandono; parecia um tronco velho de uma árvore; parecia a coluna de um palácio abandonado. E nada na sua pose fazia lembrar a paz. Outras vezes ajoelhava-se fitando o chão, como se o chão fosse um enigma por decifrar, como se na pedra do chão estivesse gravado um vestígio de Deus; como se Deus se tivesse esquecido, por acaso, de uma marca, um indício, um grão de poeira, um cabelo que fosse.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Há tempos ouvi falar aqui na loja de um país ou planeta onde as pessoas são desprezadas, onde lhes negam o pão e as obrigam a matar-se umas às outras. Os que as governam são maus e obrigam-nas a viver na rua como animais vadios.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O homem não tirava os olhos da montra como se estivesse a falar com as bonecas, mas utilizando uma linguagem que elas não entendiam. Poisou no chão umas sacas que trazia consigo e começou a esbracejar. Mas nenhum dos seus gestos fazia lembrar a justiça. Ora estava de pé, ora de cócoras, ora se sentava no passeio. Mas sempre desenhando a mesma veemência, a mesma impaciência.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Talvez queira dizer-nos alguma coisa. Talvez pense que somos pessoas. Talvez procure em nós uma resposta para as suas perguntas.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Talvez tenha pena de nós e ficasse ali a distrair a nossa solidão.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Passado muito tempo, adormeceu encostado à montra. Um cão que passava remexeu-lhe nas sacas e fugiu abocanhando alguma coisa que não puderam ver o que era. Depois veio outro cão e deitou-se ao calor dos seus pés. Assim ficaram ali pela noite dentro. Era quase de madrugada quando apareceu, não se sabe de onde, uma mulher igualmente desgrenhada, cambaleante e com os olhos cheios de amargura e abandono. Trazia nos braços algo que poderia ser uma criança. Deitou-se também, puxou um dos sacos para a cabeça a fazer de travesseiro e adormeceu.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— São estranhas estas figuras… Como é que no país ou no planeta lá onde moram não há Natal?</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Como devem ser infelizes as pessoas… Um planeta sem Natal devia ser extinto, devia explodir nos ares, ficar desfeito em poeira fina e disperso pela imensidão dos céus.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Provavelmente foram expulsas e tiveram de caminhar dias e noites até encontrar este recanto.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Tiveram sorte de não serem assaltadas pelo caminho, nem de morrerem de frio, de sede ou de fome.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Talvez tenham uma resistência e uma energia maior do que a das pessoas que conhecemos.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Talvez o seu corpo não sinta frio nem calor. Talvez não precisem de alimento, de carinho, de amizade.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Pelo menos numa coisa são diferentes de nós, bonecas: precisam de dormir…</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Devem ser alimentados e encorajados durante o sono por um anjo ou outro ser invisível.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Por um tempo deixaram-se destas conjeturas e voltaram a pensar como seria o Natal dentro das casas. Agora todos estariam já a dormir, sonhando com os anjos, os pássaros transparentes, as estrelas; sonhando com um tal Jesus, que não sabiam muito bem quem era, mas devia ser tão maravilhoso que até lhe chamavam Salvador.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Estavam assim imaginando, quando surgiu um carro da polícia. Parou em frente à montra. De dentro saiu um homem com uma farda e deu um pontapé no cão, que ganiu e fugiu a coxear. Depois fez o mesmo ao homem e à mulher e obrigou-os a entrar no carro, o que fizeram ensonados e sem oferecer resistência.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Sempre não devem ser de cá…</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Talvez as autoridades os tenham levado para analisar e estudar como é a vida no país ou planeta de onde vieram.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Ah! Já sei porque vieram buscá-los. Não te lembras de ouvir falar do Presépio? Era um homem, uma mulher, uma criança e um animal. Decerto andavam à procura de um presépio raro, e encontraram este e levaram-no para um museu.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— O que é um museu?</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— É uma casa muito grande cheia de coisas antigas, raras e valiosas onde também há pessoas com olhos, boca, ouvidos e mãos; mas não vêem, não falam, não ouvem, não cumprimentam ninguém. Chamam-se estátuas.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— E dentro dos museus também há Natal?…</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15.2px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #94683b; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Natal de 1997</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nuno Higino</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em>A mais alta estrela – Sete histórias de Natal<br /></em>CENATECA, Associação Teatro e Cultura, Marco de Canaveses, 2000</span></span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-28181304284046340772023-12-20T00:00:00.004+00:002023-12-20T00:00:00.138+00:00E MANUEL SORRIU<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpc7D-3HGAnACPnmvUX5DQ4Uu8kxeq9m0ed8uRToZrqSSB8snYIcNIyEVn6JJ2RxzVpsto1yjApzKTqaG9_AQDPO1JtTKRaEM5GTycaZHAhz-eEQYORw2PZcPDUwK0LEkqMfCynfbQuyiKVNu9qLwzBiIx1BlZy0i1-bsvWJ-AmMzcn9UzKQNIbjPdxnM/s615/mae-bebe-recem-nascido-colo-1417809763504_615x470.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="615" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpc7D-3HGAnACPnmvUX5DQ4Uu8kxeq9m0ed8uRToZrqSSB8snYIcNIyEVn6JJ2RxzVpsto1yjApzKTqaG9_AQDPO1JtTKRaEM5GTycaZHAhz-eEQYORw2PZcPDUwK0LEkqMfCynfbQuyiKVNu9qLwzBiIx1BlZy0i1-bsvWJ-AmMzcn9UzKQNIbjPdxnM/s320/mae-bebe-recem-nascido-colo-1417809763504_615x470.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">A noite aproximava-se quando o comboio chegou à cidade alemã de Colónia. Desceram muitos passageiros, entre eles um homem e uma mulher que ficaram parados na plataforma como que perdidos. Fazia frio e eles eram uns desconhecidos na grande cidade.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Vamos procurar um quarto para passar a noite — disse o homem.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Está bem — respondeu a mulher — Já não vai demorar muito.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O homem fez com a cabeça um sinal afirmativo.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Procuraram incessantemente por um quarto, mas não encontraram nenhum. O Natal estava próximo e já todos estavam ocupados. A dada altura pareceu-lhes que talvez tivessem encontrado qualquer coisa, mas eram pobres e as pessoas viam que a mulher estava grávida e não os aceitavam. A criança não tardaria a nascer. Por fim, um indivíduo, com uma garrafa de cerveja na mão, indicou-lhes um edifício, dizendo:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Ali, ao virar a esquina, há um abrigo noturno. Quem não tem casa, pode lá dormir.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Chegados, o gerente olhou pela janela.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Esta é uma casa só para homens — disse. — Não posso aceitar mulheres.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A jovem assustou-se e amparou o ventre com as duas mãos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— O que foi? — quis saber o marido.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— As dores do parto começaram. Não posso continuar.<span id="more-1008" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Então o gerente teve pena dela.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Pronto, entre, então. Ali ao fundo da casa tenho mais um quarto.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Conduziu-os através do dormitório dos homens até um quartinho minúsculo. A criança nasceu ao fim de umas horas. Mais tarde, a mulher mostrou o bebé aos homens do albergue.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Como é que vai chamar-se? — perguntou um.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Vai chamar-se Manuel — respondeu a mãe.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Os homens admiraram-se com o nome, mas lembraram-se que a jovem viera de longe.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">De repente, todos tinham qualquer coisa que queriam oferecer. Um, depois de vasculhar na mochila, tirou quatro flores de papel que ofereceu à mãe, outro foi buscar uma pele de ovelha quase nova e disse:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Para o Manuel estar sempre quentinho.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Espera aí — disse um outro. — Devo ter aqui algures uma manta de lã.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Procurou no seu saco de plástico e encontrou a manta. Era uma peça realmente bonita, felpuda e de um vermelho vivo.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Para o Manuel — disse.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A esposa do gerente entrou para ver a criança.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Do que vocês se lembram! — disse ela. — Manta, pele de ovelha e flores de papel! Do que a criança precisa é de fraldas, uns casacos de bebé e calcinhas.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Clara, as coisas da nossa Elisabete não estão ainda na gaveta? — questionou o marido.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— É verdade, Francisco! — exclamou a mulher. — Como é que eu não me lembrei!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Correu a casa e regressou com fraldas, casaquinhos, calcinhas e com um maravilhoso gorro de bebé.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Toma, para o teu bebé — disse à mãe.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Olha! — disse um homem muito velho. — Acho que o Manuel sorriu.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Todos viram.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Um dos homens pegou então no realejo.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Já não toco há muito tempo — disse. — Espero ainda conseguir.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ouviram-se uns sons muito delicados e os homens começaram a cantar baixinho. E como o Natal estava próximo, cantaram “Noite Feliz!”.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Agora chega — disse a mulher do gerente. — A mãe e a criança precisam de sossego.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O gerente murmurou:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Esquisito! Os fulanos nunca estiveram tão calmos aqui no albergue como hoje!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E em seguida acrescentou:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Não falta muito e ainda vão arranjar o boi e o burro!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Pouco depois, apagou a luz.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mas alguns dos homens ainda ficaram acordados muito tempo e voltou-lhes à lembrança o tempo em que tinham sido crianças.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Um disse, já meio a dormir:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— É estranho que tudo isto tenha acontecido aqui. Pouca gente vai acreditar, quando contarmos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Willi Fährmann<br /><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Folget dem Stern</span><br />München, OMNIBUS, 2004<br />(Tradução e adaptação)</span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-55923049104915794902023-12-19T00:00:00.065+00:002023-12-19T00:00:00.135+00:00A ÚLTIMA PRENDA DO MENINO JESUS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkaWc6g6GWgMLu2s0OHyY5RSVFjLjz0rAIBftlKCrJO0XwYoXnh1clxaiZzn85OKQpwOB4lRT9zbCYmq8FP0lZwHGzmLNtyEsZwAJfnnVP0h9d1EahANmKGFDwzH1zrTH1lHTtrFdK4uQ5IpQ24BWhaNPdUeQSz-ZOYUPSaBlLXDkrGniRAZIKLQCtg_w/s345/b422017b1fd425e6b98873b51855fec3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkaWc6g6GWgMLu2s0OHyY5RSVFjLjz0rAIBftlKCrJO0XwYoXnh1clxaiZzn85OKQpwOB4lRT9zbCYmq8FP0lZwHGzmLNtyEsZwAJfnnVP0h9d1EahANmKGFDwzH1zrTH1lHTtrFdK4uQ5IpQ24BWhaNPdUeQSz-ZOYUPSaBlLXDkrGniRAZIKLQCtg_w/s320/b422017b1fd425e6b98873b51855fec3.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A última prenda do Menino Jesus</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">"O Menino Jesus, já cansadinho</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><img align="right" alt="" border="0" class="lazyload-item" hspace="10" src="http://deco-00.slide.com/r/1/0/dl/YgdbC6Ho3z8L_Ll64KkNbxXQqw6vpWUr/zoomer.fpg" style="border: 0px black; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: auto;" vspace="10" /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">De tanto andar por cima dos telhados,</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Descalçou os sapatos apertados</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">- Eram novos - e pô-los no caminho.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nisto, sentiu ruído ali pertinho...</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trepou à chaminé com mil cuidados,</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E que viu? - Dois tamancos esburacados</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E, ao pé deles, rezando, um petizinho.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O Menino Jesus que faz então?</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sem ter nenhum brinquedo ali à mão,</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Desses que tanto agradam aos garotos,</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Troca os sapatos pelos do petiz.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">- E depois vai ao Céu mostrar, feliz,</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">À Virgem Mãe os sapatinhos rotos..."</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Adolfo Simões Muller</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> À margem: Informo, que o marido esteve em mais uma consulta em Santa Marta, a médica informou que ele está bem, e que agora é só desejar que o bypass continue a funcionar normalmente e disse-nos quais os sinais a que devíamos estar alerta, e no caso (que se espera não acontecer, mas de sentir algum deles recorrer imediatamente à urgência do hospital. E eu tenho hoje uma consulta de cirurgia, no hospital do Barreiro, por causa da hérnia do hiato que cresceu demais no último ano e me está a provocar crises repetitivas de refluxo. Vamos ver.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-52121192089284841532023-12-18T00:00:00.002+00:002023-12-18T00:00:00.181+00:00O PRESÉPIO VIVO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimK5HDiHexuPMb2QP1QqP4LvUPzJDKfeGqgU80_TH871tkcL0kLmHCnaTCmbbNZ6dM4XRRfCqHsBpJ-3zBKQspzfdyAnk76EoL0Ye63LCiNrDzTyJ5CL5iuwSBjgU6hFvW-0jeg1swTvPdmh8T6FYkpM4Qai7QeOUm_7BjT6i7g7sibqw7KPI-ZB0rwKw/s1280/Presepios-vivos-da-Italia.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1280" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimK5HDiHexuPMb2QP1QqP4LvUPzJDKfeGqgU80_TH871tkcL0kLmHCnaTCmbbNZ6dM4XRRfCqHsBpJ-3zBKQspzfdyAnk76EoL0Ye63LCiNrDzTyJ5CL5iuwSBjgU6hFvW-0jeg1swTvPdmh8T6FYkpM4Qai7QeOUm_7BjT6i7g7sibqw7KPI-ZB0rwKw/s320/Presepios-vivos-da-Italia.webp" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Em Itália, na aldeia de Grecchio, há séculos que os habitantes vêm contando de pais para filhos esta linda história:</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">«Francisco de Assis e os seus amigos tinham escolhido uma gruta próxima da aldeia para viverem uma vida de pobreza. Assim fora decidido entre eles. Afastados dos demais, os quatro jovens companheiros aproveitavam o isolamento para rezar.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Uma bela manhã, ao aproximar-se o Natal, Francisco resolveu que não iriam passar a festa sozinhos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Gostava que celebrássemos aqui o Natal — anunciou ele aos outros irmãos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Na gruta? — perguntou, admirado, o Irmão Rufino.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Então Jesus não nasceu na pobreza? — respondeu Francisco. — O presépio de Belém não é semelhante à nossa gruta?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Que óptima ideia! — aplaudiu o Irmão Leão .<span id="more-1281" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">— Então, mãos à obra! — exclamou Francisco, dirigindo-se de imediato para a aldeia.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Horas depois, ouvem-se mugidos na serra. Era o Irmão Leão que tentava trazer um boi para a gruta. Não era tarefa fácil! Atrás, vinham o Irmão Ângelo e o Irmão Rufino com um burro carregado com uma manjedoura que um morador emprestara. Durante todo aquele tempo, Francisco encarregara-se de encontrar figurantes para o presépio: uma rapariga para fazer de Maria e um rapaz, de José, um ou dois pastores e, claro, um recém-nascido!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ao cair da noite, tudo estava pronto.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A jovem Maria foi a primeira a chegar. Estava muito comovida. Vieram depois os pastores, cada um com um borrego às costas. Mas José nunca mais chegava! De facto era tão tímido que receava não estar à altura do papel. Por fim, uma mulher pousou uma criança na manjedoura. Tinha-a agasalhado muito bem, com os bracinhos bem apertados ao longo do corpo para não apanhar frio ! A missa podia começar!»</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Conta-se que este primeiro presépio vivo tocou profundamente os aldeãos que assistiram a esta missa tão admirável. Um acontecimento em particular marcou os espíritos: quando os sinos da aldeia bateram, ao longe, as doze badaladas da meia-noite, o recém-nascido acordou, abriu os olhos e sorriu!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E, não se sabe como, dos agasalhos bem enfaixados tirou os bracinhos para os estender na direção dos habitantes da aldeia… Um autêntico milagre de Natal!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Christine Pedotti<br /><em>24 histoires de Noël pour attendre Jésus</em><br />Paris, Mame, 2007<br />(Tradução e adaptação)</span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855301804597973639.post-44710507744567631712023-12-17T00:00:00.001+00:002023-12-17T00:00:00.346+00:00A ESTRELA DE PRATA<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnlDESG-P2MwFE-NkUYAxosPaFOuh6nJ_AIstBUMnJkx6drLx1MqispcStMSztDCeOAEdZjARAa1R8bR0BvlvyUo4bLElbaiRrIhJES15XNzZ9P6kay_nPy-Eb3dExpJ_0jcY1u7uX5fKQ0HV1mmc7qDeI51peDbBOoBWL-cr0Q01F7qJNQ3EmW2NevzQ/s740/icone-de-estrela-de-prata-icone-3d-render-ilustracao_585146-762.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="740" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnlDESG-P2MwFE-NkUYAxosPaFOuh6nJ_AIstBUMnJkx6drLx1MqispcStMSztDCeOAEdZjARAa1R8bR0BvlvyUo4bLElbaiRrIhJES15XNzZ9P6kay_nPy-Eb3dExpJ_0jcY1u7uX5fKQ0HV1mmc7qDeI51peDbBOoBWL-cr0Q01F7qJNQ3EmW2NevzQ/s320/icone-de-estrela-de-prata-icone-3d-render-ilustracao_585146-762.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 26px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A estrela de prata</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Numa árvore que eu cá sei – que nós sabemos – estão uma estrela de prata e uma bola de cristal.<br />— O que fazemos aqui? — perguntou a estrela.<br />— Estamos a enfeitar — respondeu a bola.<br />— O que é enfeitar? — perguntou a estrela.<span id="more-816" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />— É fazer vista, ornamentar, alindar… — respondeu a bola de cristal.<br />Passou-se um tempo e a estrela perguntou de novo:<br />— Porque estamos a enfeitar?<br />— Porque esta árvore não é como as outras. Os frutos dela são raros. Aparecem um dia, luzem o seu quê, conforme sabem ou podem, e depois são colhidos e guardados, até para o ano.<br />A bola de cristal tinha muita experiência de outros Natais, ao passo que a estrela era nova, de prata fresca, e não sabia quase nada. Mas tinha ouvido falar que havia estrelas cadentes, estrelas que caem do céu e no céu desaparecem, num sopro de luz.<br />— Não serei uma dessas? — perguntou à bola.<br />— Talvez sejas, talvez não sejas… Mas não experimentes.<br />Passou-se um tempo mais, e a estrela guardou para si aquela ideia, uma ideia pequenina. “Não experimentes”, dissera-lhe a bola. E se experimentasse? Foi o que fez.<br />Caiu, num susto, mas como era leve, inocente e frágil, uma corrente de ar, vinda de uma porta aberta, algures, levou-a consigo.<br />Levou-a consigo e fê-la poisar, sem estrago, no fofo musgo.<br />— Olha, é a estrela da gruta — disse alguém que estava a armar o presépio.<br />E estrela do presépio ficou.<br />Donde estava, onde a puseram, via o presépio, os pastores, os reis magos, as lavadeiras com a trouxa à cabeça, as leiteiras com a bilha à cinta, os vagabundos, o moleiro, o azeiteiro e todo o povo do presépio e mais as pessoas de carne e osso, que vinham admirar aquela lindeza, sorrir para o Menino Jesus e olhar para a estrela, suspensa do alto da gruta.<br />Estrela de oito pontas que era, a apontar em todas as direcções, nem ela sabia para onde, brilhou imenso.<br />Brilhou o mais que pôde.<br />Para o ano, a estrela de prata já tem muito que contar à bola de cristal.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">António Torrado</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.historiadodia.pt/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.historiadodia.pt</a><br />Adaptação</span></p>Elvira Carvalhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080776366776921716noreply@blogger.com7