Joy...

No último atarefado fim-de-semana fiz uma pausa para rever o excelente filme "Corrigindo Beethoven"... Foi o suficiente para ficar a trautear a Nona Sinfonia e relembrar que, com alegria, todo o trabalho se torna mais leve! Obrigada a todos os que me fazem sorrir enquanto trabalho e me apoiam para o continuar a fazer... E, como isto já parece um agradecimento dos Óscares, obrigada aos meus meninos e às minhas meninas de hoje, de ontem, de amanhã e de SEMPRE, por todos os sorrisos!

"O friends, no more these sounds!

Let us sing more cheerful songs,

more full of joy!

Joy, bright spark of divinity,

Daughter of Elysium,

Fire-inspired we tread

Thy sanctuary.

Thy magic power re-unites

All that custom has divided,

All men become brothers

Under the sway of thy gentle wings.

Whoever has created

An abiding friendship,

Or has won

A true and loving wife,

All who can call at least one soul theirs,

Join in our song of praise;

But any who cannot must creep tearfully

Away from our circle.

All creatures drink of joy

At nature's breast.

Just and unjust

Alike taste of her gift;

She gave us kisses and the fruit of the vine,

A tried friend to the end.

Even the worm can feel contentment,

And the cherub stands before God!

Gladly, like the heavenly bodies

Which He set on their courses

Through the splendor of the firmament;

Thus, brothers, you should run your race,

As a hero going to conquest.

You millions, I embrace you.

This kiss is for all the world!"

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - Ode to Joy