nyc

temperatures and muscles

put one hand in the snow, the other one in the ipanema sea, one barefoot on the central park grass and one high heel the cobblestones of trastevere......

that has nothing to do with the fitzgerald quote....
it's just my daily stretching excercises

NYC

It's Saturday night, NYC.
someone thinks my previous post was related to pain? oh well....sorry but not this time :) ....however....here's a sentence I collected a while ago and I think that everyone should know about. Happy saturday.




The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up" (1936)

spices

feel free to dress your life

you and I

caught in between

caught in between
you and your decision
I stand still
And I feel close to you
more than ever

as 10 coisas melhores do Brazil

queridos e queridas,
aqui vao as as 10 COISAS melhores do Brazil


1) caipivodka de maracuja



2) a areia que canta



3) biscoito globo salgado



4) couve



5) o verde



6) ~



7) a chuva quente



8) as parcerias



9) o amor eterno declarado no primeiro encontro



10) vcs

"HEY YO SHIN KORE DO"


From the school of the Willow Heart: "The soft wins the hard''

Many centuries ago, there was a Japanese Doctor by the name of Shirobei Aiyama. He had studies many techniques of fighting of his time, and other techniques he had learned durning his trips to China where he studied traditional medicine and reanimation, with no success. Saddened by the lack of achievement he retired for 100 days to meditate in the temple of Daifazu to pray for the God Tayunin to help him to improve and bet better.

It happened one day, after a snow storm, that he observed that the weight of the snow had broken the branches of the strongest trees. His eyes then moved to a tree that was left intact: it was a willow tree, with extremely flexible branches.
Every time the snow threatened to break them, they would slightly bend, letting the snow slide down to the ground, and then get back into their normal shape.

Dalla scuola dello spirito del Salice Piangente: "Il morbido vince il duro"

Esisteva un tempo, molti secoli fa, un medico di nome Shirobei Akiyama. Egli aveva studiato le tecniche di combattimento del suo tempo, comprese altre tecniche che imparò durante i suoi viaggi in Cina compiuti per studiare la medicina tradizionale e i metodi di rianimazione, senza però ottenere il risultato sperato. Contrariato dal suo insuccesso, per cento giorni si ritirò in meditazione nel tempio di Daifazu a pregare il dio Tayunin affinché potesse migliorare.

Accadde che un giorno, durante un' abbondante nevicata, osservò che il peso della neve aveva spezzato i rami degli alberi più robusti che erano così rimasti spogli. Lo sguardo gli si posò allora su un albero che era rimasto intatto: era un salice, dai rami flessibili. Ogni volta che la neve minacciava di spezzarli, questi si flettevano lasciandola cadere riprendendo subito la primitiva posizione.

I LOVE YOU

I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

don't pull the curtains now that I can see you

THE ETERNAL CITY

I just got to Rome,
beautiful, warm, golden and welcoming.
I'll be here for a few weeks with the exception of a short sicilian parentesis.
I'll be writing and co-writing with some great people here.
I'll be
meeting friends
and eating well
100%love
here's a little quote for you someone I love passed to me once, that I never forgot.


"If you want to reach the infinite, explore every aspect of the finite"

"Wilst du ins Unendliche schreiten, Geh nur im Endlichen nach allen Seiten". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

THE ARMFUL by Robert Frost

This is a poem that I adore, yes, welcome to my Robert Frost days...
I translated it in italian and portuguese for you all.

love
from
me


The armful

For every parcel I stoop down to seize
I lose some other stuff off my arms and knees
And the whole pile is slipping, bottle, buns-
Extremes too hard to comprehend at once,
Yet nothing I should care to leave behind.
With all I have to hold with hand and mind
and heart, if need be, I will do my best
To keep their building balanced at my breast,
I crouch down to prevent them as they fall;
Then sit down in the middle of them all.
I had to drop the armful on the road
And try to stack them in a better load.


De Braços Repletos

Por cada embrulho que me baixo para apanhar
Deixo outro de meus braços e joelhos despencar,
E a pilha inteira vai escorregando, garrafas, guloseimas
Extremos demasiado difíceis de abarcar em uma vez,
Ainda eu deveria cuidar de nada deixar para trás.
Com tudo o que tenho de carregar com a mao e a mente
E o coracao, se preciso for, darei meu melhor jeito
Para manter esse amontoado amparado no peito.
Agacho-me para segurar enquanto caiam;
Depois sento-me no meio deles todos.
Tinha que espalhar a carga na estrada
E tentar empilhá-la de forma melhor.


Le braccia Cariche

Ogni pacchetto che mi chino a raccogliere,
qualche altro ne perdo dalle braccia o d'in grembo,
e tutto il mucchio vacilla, bottiglie, panini,
estremi troppo difficili a reggersi in una,
eppure niente voglio lasciare indietro.
con tutto quello che ho per reggere, mani
e mente e cuore, se occorre, farò del mio meglio
per conservare il castello in equilibrio sul petto.
mi piego giù sulle gambe per impedirlo, ma crolla;
e poi mi siedo nel mezzo di tutta quella rovina.
avrei dovuto mollarlo lungo la strada il mio carico
e vedere se potevo aggiustarmelo meglio.

Chiedilo ai fratelli Grimm

Io la zucca non l'ho svuotata
troppo piccola e troppo dura
per farlo senza rischiare di farmi male.
Pero' ci ho pensato appena mi sono svegliata
e i tulipani bianchi si sono aperti.
La zucca/carrozza in Cenerentola era solo una deviazione di disney per vendere.
La verita' e' che Cenerentola piangeva tutti i giorni tante lacrime davanti alla tomba della mamma
su cui aveva piantanto il ramoscello che aveva chiesto al padre in regalo. ( le sorellastre avevano chiesto perle e diademi)
Quel ramoscello, irrigato dalle lacrime di Cernerentola, e' diventato l'albero dei desideri
che le ha fatto trovare il Principe
senza neanche accorgersene.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

NEW MEXICO

my eyes are still full of that sky
my lips are full of green chile
my heart wants to get lost in the Navajo nation
around the Shiprock, the rock with wings
....and never come back

BRAZIL

BRAZILBRAZILBRAZILBRAZILBRAZILBRAZILBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

if i were a flower

which one would I be?

love from the road

NEVER FELT SO GROUNDED

I didn't mean to stay out of touch.
it's just that the last few months have been very busy. writing, traveling, recording.
Japan was amazing, lots of incredible food and great shows. Packed with people every night and great sound around us...Except: The first night I realized I forgot my elegant shoes, 5 minutes before I had to leave for the show, so I ended up singing BARE FOOT and I looooved it so much, that I sang the whole tour without shoes. Never felt so grounded while singing!

NY was coooooooold and rainy, so was my mood..uninspired and a bit gloomygray... So I bought myself a plane ticket and flew to Rio to visit Ipanema beach and my friend Daniel and to write some songs. I heard amazing people playing and met incredible artists.
Now I am in Italy, I just recorded a duet with PINO DANIELE one of Italy's most incredible singer-songwriters. It's gonna be part of his forthcoming release called "Ricomincio da 30" a double cd celebrating 30 years of his career.
The song is gorgeous and our voices blend like coffe and milk, like vanilla and hazelnut ice cream, like tomato and mozzarella, like sea and sky

I miss you all and please write when you can
love
from
me

BEFORE AND AFTER THE SHOW!!!

Hey,
I'm starting to put together the visual pieces of the tour!!
funny funny funny.
here's a draft of what normally happens before and after the show.
Before: energy focus creative force blend of magic
After: cannibal fiesta!!!

BAD YAMA, BAD YAMA, BAD YAMA..MOTO

BACI A TUTTI

THE BEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD

DA MICHELE A NAPOLI!!!!

RELAX

Ciao Ciao Ciao,
oggi dovrei cercare di riposare un po'....ma non so come si fa....... Il tour e' finito, gli amici se ne vanno.....pete, yusuke, max e uv sono tornati a NY.
A giorni pubblichero' delle foto del tour, cosi ci divertiamo un po'.
Nel frattempo, spero che tutti voi vi stiate godendo la sorpresina di Natale.
Mandatela, regalatela, fate i regali cosi', i regali d'aria, quelli infiniti, quelli incomprabili, quelli si che sono regali.
Abbraccio tutti,

Chiara

hello hello friends and beautiful people. i am in Lisbon promoting the new album. i did a million interviews and 2 Fnac showcases in tow days, and most of it in Portuguese!!!! just my guitar the piano and me. I'm staying at an amazing hotel called Pestana Palace where I am officially treated as a princess and i don't want to leave because it feels too good but i am a little sick and I lost my wallet with EVERYTHING INSIDE...a total disaster one of those i want to wake up and realize I was having a nightmare kind of moments. But it's not a nightmare it is real and now i have to deal with getting all my documents and credit cards and identity stuff, because apparently i've lost my identity......have I? Lisbon lisbon Lisbon, beautiful city, pasteis de belem, custard pastry town, seafood kingdom and porto land I promise I'll come back and sing to you with my bandfriends, but I don't want to lose my wallet anymore.

GREENPOINT

GREENPOINT IS THE POINT
I took a long walk there and I entered some polish healthfood store.
there I found my peace for the day :)
I'm working on a new arrangement of Parole Incerte, probably solo or with Max (the bass player) bowing and bowing and bowing....and bowing and bowing and bowind bowling bow bow vow wow miao :)

getting ready in NY for the next round of promotion in Europe.
ups and downs.
who said it was gonna b easy?
i better go sing a bit now or tha day will go by without its meaning

less than ideal poem

In a less than ideal world, i make less than ideal choices, and it makes me realize how marginal are the choices I make because everything comes down to taking little less than ideal steps that combined together will lead to a real world of less than ideal circumstances therefore I leave you a less than ideal advise to keep living in what you love and doing it and ignore the less then ideal thoughts that make you a less than ideal man

Ciao,
oggi e' grigio
voglio suonare un po'.
o forse non voglio suonare un po'.

PHOTO AFTER THE BLUE NOTE, yusuke, me, tony, pete, rich......happy end: soldoutbluenote3encores!!!

Hey Guys,
It's a happy day today. i finally saw the site it up...so...WELCOME to u all!!
I'm not sure whether I should write in Italian or English, when I write a song it's the melody that suggests the language, but with just words it's a different story.
I decided i'm gonna play it by ear and see how I feel daily and write accordingly..so welcome to my english day!
I'm in Rome, after the first round of promotion for "THE SPACE BETWEEN". It's going really well.

Rome in october is like winter flirting with summer, the fall, a bittersweet flavor, a generous city.
love is here to make you fall, then fly.

be well
chiara

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