Já não me lembro ao certo se a Hora do Conto já tinha acabado ou se ainda estaria por começar. Só sei que na sala de leitura dos mais pequenos, na Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, o reboliço era muito. Ainda assim, sentada num pequeno banco junto a uma mesa redonda tomada de assalto por papéis e lápis de cor, uma mulher mantinha-se alheia à confusão e desfrutava em paz da leitura de alguns livros. Não pude deixar de me aproximar.
A Sandra, que estava na companhia do marido e das três filhas, diz-se "cliente habitual" da biblioteca, um lugar que adora e onde se sente como em casa. Ali escolhe os livros por intuição: olha para eles e mesmo sem lhes tocar sabe que aqueles são os livros indicados para a fase da vida em que se encontra. E porque na altura em que a conheci estava num período de autoconhecimento, os livros que chamaram por si, os "livros certos", como afirmou, foram: "Cosmos. Ordem. Matriz", de Maria Flávia de Monsaraz; "A Alma Iluminada", de Alexandra Solnado e "O Livro da Longevidade", de Edward Claflin. Espiritualidade, Saúde, Educação e Natureza. Estes eram, portanto, os temas de eleição e os três títulos seriam requisitados para que pudesse estudá-los atentamente. A Sandra acredita que o ser humano é muito mais do que aquilo que aparenta ser, por isso sente a necessidade de partir à descoberta dessas outras dimensões mais profundas. "A ideia", disse-me, "é estudar-me enquanto um todo ao mesmo tempo que tento aprender cada vez mais sobre as minhas diversas partes".
I can't remember exactly if the Story Time was already over or if it was to begin. All I know is that at the kids reading room, at the Almeida Garrett Municipal Library, the agitation was huge. Nevertheless, sitting in a small bench next to a round table taken over by papers and crayons, a woman was unaware of the confusion and peacefully enjoyed the reading of some books. I had to get close.
Sandra, who was with her husband and their tree daughters, says she is a "regular" at the Library , a place that she adores and where she feels like home. There she chooses books by intuition: she looks at them and even without touching them she knows that those are the right books for the life stage she is at the moment. And because she was in a period of self-knowledge when I met her, the books that called for her, the "right books", as she said, were: "Cosmos. Order. Matrix", from Maria Flávia de Monsaraz; "The Enlightened Soul", from Alexandra Solnado and "Age Protectors: Stop Aging Now!", from Edward Claflin. Spirituality, Health, Education and Nature. So, this were the themes elected and the tree books would be requested so she could study them closely at home. Sandra believes that the human being is much more than what is shown, so she feels the need to go in the discovery of these other deeper sides. "The idea", she told me, "is to study myself as an all while trying to learn more about my different parts."
Translated by Marisa Silva
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I can't remember exactly if the Story Time was already over or if it was to begin. All I know is that at the kids reading room, at the Almeida Garrett Municipal Library, the agitation was huge. Nevertheless, sitting in a small bench next to a round table taken over by papers and crayons, a woman was unaware of the confusion and peacefully enjoyed the reading of some books. I had to get close.
Sandra, who was with her husband and their tree daughters, says she is a "regular" at the Library , a place that she adores and where she feels like home. There she chooses books by intuition: she looks at them and even without touching them she knows that those are the right books for the life stage she is at the moment. And because she was in a period of self-knowledge when I met her, the books that called for her, the "right books", as she said, were: "Cosmos. Order. Matrix", from Maria Flávia de Monsaraz; "The Enlightened Soul", from Alexandra Solnado and "Age Protectors: Stop Aging Now!", from Edward Claflin. Spirituality, Health, Education and Nature. So, this were the themes elected and the tree books would be requested so she could study them closely at home. Sandra believes that the human being is much more than what is shown, so she feels the need to go in the discovery of these other deeper sides. "The idea", she told me, "is to study myself as an all while trying to learn more about my different parts."
Translated by Marisa Silva
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