Get Fit
Pilates - hey I worked out with crawling toes this morning! It isn't easy. Keep your feet in shape!!
Get Faith
Philippians 2:3 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, Rather, in humility value others above yourselves." This is kind of against a lot of today's thoughts. Be who YOU want, be kind to YOURSELF, Make YOURSELF happy. The thinking is that if you are good to yourself, then you can be in a position to be kind to others. Maybe, just maybe it is the other way around. What do you think?
On this day
1993 I Was at work and Nicole had a half day of school. My friend Pam came all the way from Sterling Heights to pick her up and took her to her house for the afternoon. When I got there after work Pat had taken all the kids, their two boys and Nicole to the show, which left Pam and I to have a girls evening of wine and chat! What a pleasant memory!
1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I. I don't want to be that guy, but somehow it rings a bell this year.
Tacuarembo
Notable residents[edit]
Writers
Circe Maia,
Mario Benedetti,
Tomás de Mattos,and
Jorge Majfud are from Tacuarembó, as is
José Núñez, 19th century Nicaraguan politician. Some Uruguayans claim that the
tangomusician
Carlos Gardel was born near Tacuarembó, in the village of
Valle Edén.
[5][6] Scholarly consensus is that he was born in
Toulouse, France, then raised in
Buenos Aires, but as an adult he obtained legal papers saying he was born in Tacuarembó, probably to avoid French military authorities.
[7][8][9][10]
Biography
Circe Maia was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1932. Her parents were María Magdalena Rodríguez and the notary Julio Maia, both originally from the north of Uruguay.
[1] Her father published her first book of poetry (
Plumitas, 1944) when she was just 12 years old. The sudden death of her mother when she was 19 left a somber mark on Maia's first book of mature poetry which was published when she was 25 (
En el tiempo, 1958).
She married Ariel Ferreira, a medical doctor, in 1957. In 1962 they moved permanently to Tacuarembó in the north of Uruguay with their first two children.
She studied philosophy in the Instituto de Profesores Artigas and also at the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias of the
Universidad de la República, both in Montevideo. She began teaching philosophy at a Tacuarembó high school and at the Instituto de Formación Docente de Tacuarembó, the local teachers' college. She was a founding member of a students' union (Centro de Estudiantes del Instituto de Profesores Artigas) and an active member of the
Socialist Party of Uruguay.
[2]
The years of the
civil-military dictatorship of Uruguay were difficult for Circe Maia and her family. At 3 a.m. one morning in 1972, police raided their home to arrest both Ariel and Circe. However Circe was allowed to remain because she was caring for their four-day-old daughter.
[3] Her husband was imprisoned for two years for being associated with the
Tupamaros National Liberation Movement. In 1973 the government dismissed her from her teaching position at the high school. However, she began to teach English and French language classes privately. In 1982 her 18-year-old son was killed in an automobile accident. This tragedy combined with the pressures of the dictatorship caused her to suspend poetry writing. With the return of democracy in 1985, her position at the high school was restored, and in 1987 she published two books,
Destrucciones, a small book of bitter prose, and
Un viaje a Salto, a narrative about an incident during her husband's imprisonment.
Her return to poetry was marked by the publication of Superficies (1990), which was followed by other poetry books and her translations from English, Greek, and other languages. For the reading public, her most important publication was the recompilation of poetry from her previous nine books appearing as Circe Maia: obra poética (2007 and 2010), amounting to over 400 pages.
Circe Main taught philosophy in high school until her retirement in 2001, but she continued to teach English in a private institute and direct local theater productions, as well as continuing her work as a poet, essayist, and translator.[4] I found this interesting because of the influence of the dictatorship government
repressing her writing. Freedom of speech.
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable! Happy Birthday John and Deborah!
This area seems to produce poets.
St Fructuosus in case you were thinking it was less than civilized, as I was. I am always so surprised to see the beautiful churches around the world.
For those of us that haven't seen it.