Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes

Once I had a dream. A really tall creature with a skin that looked like the darkness of the universe, full of bright stars, arrived and explained the next steps in the present would not be for those who are already here. "To whom, then?" I remember to ask. "Them,", the entity said.

In English, "contratempo" is a setback. It is an event that delays your progress or reverses some of the progress that you have made. Do you know the feeling? Sooner we start a new individual or collective movement it feels that real life comes with a challenge.

When everyone comes back home, there is this common feeling of synchronization with a new set of ideas. We all got a collective update and now we know a new set of words, concepts, behaviors, and agreements... I call that a time set. A bundle of expressions and manifestations of our time.

While seeing that first, blurred, image of the center of our galaxy, I cried. Suddenly, a massive celestial body almost 26.000 light-years far from what we call here and now was my warmest place.