

A Fight for Love
Dear readers, Today’s inspiration is something epic, grotesque, comic, and sublime. Philosophers would rise from the past, only to strike with the right theory the wrong person. Enjoy the read and have fun! With love, Ana Paula Arendt A Fight for Love Ana Paula Arendt All the philosophers and wise men gathered together to try to make me stop loving you. At last! A legendary battle! Simone Weil¹, kindly precise, struck the first blow, declaring attention the purest form of h


Domesticated flowers
Domesticated flowers Ana Paula Arendt A single gesture may be born of impulse; repeated through the years, it learns to stay. A faithfulness that does not seek to compulse, and keeps, through time, its own devoted way. I carry on, not for what result it may ensue, but because silence does not govern what I do. Perhaps these flowers I give are not a question to which you should simply make reply; perhaps they were a sentence, whole and clear, complete beneath the silence of yo


The road to you
The road to you Ana Paula Arendt Time we have left will run out but your soul will endure in my heart, though… There’s a long road to walk now but I’ll reach all the shores that I search! And if the night should fall upon me, and if the road should lose its way, I will carry your love within me, a light until the end of my days. There are mountains yet before me, there are rivers I must cross… The path may lead through sorrow, but I will not yet fear the loss. For the time we


Poetry and education
Dear Readers and Friends, I am very much grateful for the invitation to attend the Poetry Day, in honour of Eunice de Souza, as a Chief Guest, organized by the English Department of the St. Xavier College in Mumbai, one of the most prestigious institutions in India, founded by the Jesuits in 1869. It is also said to be the Indian "Hogwarts", for its stairs, and outstanding architecture. Professor Rashmi, Stuti, and Prasita are enthusiastic of the value of Poetry and Literatur


Excommunication: an Inquiry
An Inquiry into Authority and the Exercise of Power in the Catholic Church Against Excommunication Ana Paula Arendt* To my readers: what do I think about the excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX)? Since I have not formed an opinion about that organization, it would be very easy simply to read the decision of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and follow what the authorities say. Yet the easiest path is not always the safest one when it comes to formi


Excomunhão: Um Estudo
Uma investigação sobre autoridade e uso do poder na Igreja Católica Contra a excomunhão Ana Paula Arendt* Aos meus leitores, o que eu opino sobre a excomunhão da Fraternidade Pio X? Como eu não tenho opinião formada sobre essa organização, seria muito fácil simplesmente ler a decisão do Dicastério para a Doutrina da Fé e seguir o que dizem as autoridades. Mas nem sempre o caminho mais fácil é o mais seguro para formar a própria opinião. Mesmo dentro da Igreja, de um Estado t


Among Prisons and Forests, a pearl
Margarida Patriota is a Brazilian writer, translator, and literary critic. A member of the Brasília Academy of Letters, she lived in several countries during her childhood and youth, an experience that shaped the cosmopolitan character of her work. She has also been active in cultural outreach and has, for many years, hosted the radio program Authors and Books (Autores e Livros) on Rádio Senado. Holding both a Master's and a Ph.D. in French Literature, she taught Literary The


entre cárceres e bosques, uma pérola
Margarida Patriota é escritora, tradutora e crítica literária brasileira. Membro da Academia Brasiliense de Letras, viveu em diversos países durante a infância e juventude, experiência que marcou o caráter cosmopolita de sua obra. Atuou também na difusão cultural e apresenta, desde há muitos anos, o programa Autores e Livros, da Rádio Senado. Mestre e doutora em Literatura Francesa, lecionou por 28 anos Teoria da Literatura, Literatura Brasileira e Literatura Francesa no Depa


To the people
To my dear readers and friends, a long poem in 7 Chants, paying homage to the Freedom Fighters, those people who worked to achieve the independence of India. Also a declaration of love, and the last poem in the Pink Book of Passion. Bharat: how the Indians call India, a country that is the unity of a common conscience, a civilization. I hope you enjoy it! With love and care, Ana Paula Arendt Delivered to the people (To Sarojini Naidu and her readers) I Freedom fighters¹, th


Gopuram
Gopuram* Ana Paula Arendt A gateway to heaven amidst the confusion of the world, heaven: a clean, sacred space where shoes are left behind. Heaven: where prayers are heard with compassion and reverence. This gateway is pure bliss: a vertical mountain covered with the legends of those who fought for justice and light. Ladder, stairway of sight, all three eyes scaling the higher grounds of the soul… From muladhara, a generous base, foundation of flesh and loins receiving and gi




