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Everyday Poetry - "I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning." David Hockney

[Flowers with a swimming pool in the background: a small but well-deserved tribute to David Hockney. You will be missed.]

Everyday Poetry - "Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day." Barbara Sher

Everyday Poetry - "Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource." Barbara Sher

Poésie du quotidien - "L’amour est fait de veille, d’anxiété, d’émerveillement, de peur et d’admiration, comme une lumière sans ombre ou une oreille quand le malheur est silencieux." Marc Lévy

Everyday Poetry - "Chaque ombre à son âme reconnart la lumière." Tristan Tzara

Everyday Poetry - "Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming." Barbara Sher

Everyday Poetry - "Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it." Barbara Sher

[Portugal Day - June 10, 2026 - 883rd anniversary of the nation's independence.]

Everyday Poetry - "Fortune hath ever favours for the bold;/ ... /Hangs like a stone on freedom of the mind./ /Who dares the Firmament sublime ascend,/ /Meets there a star, whereby his course is told;/ /The good mere fancy in its range doth hold/ /Illusive is, soon scattered by the wind." Luis Vaz de Camões, Lusíadas

Everyday Poetry - "Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze." Barbara Sher

Everyday Poetry - "The maze has no centre. An ending is no more than a point in sequence, a snip of the cutting shears." John Fowles, The Magus

[São Mamede Infesta - Matosinhos - Portugal - 07.06.2026]

Everyday Poetry - "If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret." Eve Arnold

Everyday Poetry - "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Abandoned factory - Leça do Balio - Matosinhos - Portugal - 04.06.2026]

Everyday Poetry - "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." Ralph Waldo Emerson