Maia's Into The Moonlight

Oil on paper It has been fun doing the blog. When I started it back in June, almost 4 months ago, I did not know how it worked, what were the steps to make it dance. I did not even, I realized...

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A POET “Late in her life, when we fell in love I’d take her out from the nursing home for a chaser and two bourbons. She’d crack a joke sharp as a tin lid hot from the teeth of the can-...

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PAINTING AND “MOONLIGHT”, THE MAKING OF A PRIZE A doorway in Rome, Italy Painting has always been my own particular potential. For 30 years, I lived for painting, obsessed with it. When I...

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THE PARTY NEVER STOPPED IN THE ALENTEJO It took us 4 days to reluctantly depart from Nuno’s place in northern Alentejo. For privacy reasons, I did not photograph any of the people invited �...

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LAST SUMMER DINNER AND A CONVERSATION IN ALLEGRO GRAZIOSO With dusk creeping a little nearer every day and August coming to an end, we gave a last dinner party before closing up the house and ...

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PATAGONIA ON MY MIND Argentina's Route 40, like US Route 66, drives deep into your imagination. Patagonia exists almost more in my mind than as a concrete geographic place. The images from a...

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SINTRA MYSTERY RESOLVED - A CONVERSATION WITH ANNA THULIN Soon after returning from the north, I received a surprising message from Anna Thulin, who I talked about in a previous entry. She tha...

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PEDRO AND INÊS – A Portuguese Medieval Love Story Shakespeare wishes. On my trip to the north of Portugal I have been criss-crossing with one of the most beautiful love stories of the Middl...

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SINTRA MYSTERY Yesterday afternoon I was having a lemonade at a café in Sintra in a square filled with bougainvillea and wisteria. Sintra is an enchanting UNESCO World Heritage Site abou...

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ANTIPASTO As best as I can recall, this is the conversation that took place while eating the antipasto pictured here. The group was mainly Portuguese writers – who have lived in the US and ...

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EARLY MORNING RITUAL part II When it is windy at Guincho beach, I go south along a rugged and wild coast, dotted with lighthouses and old forts, to the nearby sheltered town of Cascais. Forme...

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EARLY MORNING –AND LATE AFTERNOON -- RITUALS IN PORTUGAL – part I I spend summers on a wild part of the Atlantic coast in Portugal, Guincho, just north of Lisbon. It is an untamed place ...

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SUMMER FESTIVALS Summer is not just beaches, sun tanning and red toenails. Summer is also a time to entertain the mind with new sights and sounds and images. Last week we went to the Nati...

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THE BODHI TREE, the oldest tree in the world cared for by man The most sacred tree for Buddhists is the “ficus religiosa”. It is called “bodhi” in Sanskrit because the Buddha attained...

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LUNCH WITH ISABEL My good friend Isabel came from Washington D.C. for a short holiday in Portugal and I wanted to organize a festive lunch for her. I had not seen Isabel in more than 2 years....

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THE ALENTEJO, A WORLD APART The Alentejo is far away, a place suspended in time, with life lived at a low pitch, as if the place itself breathes very softly. Three hours out of Madrid, we cr...

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A HOY AWARD I received the A HOY AWARD from Herrad, a remarkable woman who has an outstanding blog: http://access-denied-livingwithms.blogspot.com/ Herrad’s blog is about courage, grit,...

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FIGS, the sweet taste of summer It is easy to think of figs as backup singers instead of summer’s superstars. Competing with cherries, plums, peaches, melons, strawberries, figs usually go ...

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EARLY MORNING RITUAL I start my days with a walk with the dog. We always go to the park next to the house, a huge green area in the heart of Madrid. We go early to have the park to ourselv...

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HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA "Doing My Own Thing", oil on canvas, 90X100 cm In December of 2006 I was in Brazil, but did not feel like dancing the samba. I was staying across the street from Ipanema beach...

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MORE COOLING THOUGHTS From my terrace in Madrid. What could be better than fresh lemonade? Or a bowl of cold cherries? The "lady bug"! Cut loads of watermelon into chunks and freeze the...

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COOLING THOUGHTS "Veranda", oil on canvas, 117X113 cm "Guincho Beach", oil on canvas, 100X90 cm It is hot in Madrid. Hot as in flames. Hot as in burning. Hot as glued to the sheets du...

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WOMEN AND WATER "Vatura", oil on canvas, 105X110 cm "Sensuality", oil on canvas, 105X100 cm I have a series of paintings around the theme of “women and water”. There is something ele...

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SOROLLA 1863 - 1923 "Boys on the Beach", Joaquin Sorolla - 1909 "Strolling Along the Seashore", Joaquin Sorolla - 1909 “Sorolla was Spain’s most celebrated and prestigious artist of h...

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LIVING WITH CLL - Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia "Evasion", oil on canvas, 110X120 cm Living with CLL is like living with a Siamese twin. Anywhere I go, for a walk, to the movies, for a swim, to ...

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