Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro

International Music Day 2026 – For Choices For … and International Music Day 2026 at The Polymath

A page of medieval manuscript featuring ornate calligraphy and red ink embellishments, containing Latin text with musical notations.
Hildegard von Bingen – Riesencodex c. 1180–1190

Carlos Paredes – Verdes Anos. From Paulo Rocha’s 1963 film. Verdes Anos. An instrumental piece in which the Mestre and his Portuguese guitar carry the atmosphere without needing words.

Paradise Lost – The Last Time
From by beloved album of theirs Draconian Times. Heavy, dark and beautifully atmospheric, with that particular sense of weight and beat that Paradise Lost can create.

Ethel Ennis – Dreamer Dreamer
From the album Lullabies for Losers. A voice carrying longing and vulnerability with extraordinary warmth upon an arrowing musical background.

Hildegard von Bingen – Ave GenerosaMusic from the twelfth century, luminous and otherworldly. Hildegard is also one of my main inspirations and central to The Polymath

Happy International Music Day. ✨

You can read more about Hildegard  and Ave Generosa, and the thread connecting music, curiosity and The Polymath, over at The Polymath: Hildegard von Bingen as a Source of Continuous Inspiration

International Music Day at Mondo Bizarre Magazine:

International Music Day 2025 – My Song Choices

International Music Day 2025 – My Song Choices

International Music Day at The Polymath:

2025

2026 – Four Songs, One Thread

Hildegard von Bingen receiving a vision and dictating to Volmar — illumination from the Scivias, c. 1151–1152

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Polymath

One Year of The Polymath – Returning to the Vessel and the New Moon in Virgo at The Polymath

Marc Francis – Signals, 2026

The Polymath turns one year old. After the Pause I’m back writing to that beloved vessel.

One Year of The Polymath – Returning to the Vessel and the New Moon in Virgo is a look back at its first year, the ideas it holds, what stays, what disappears, and what comes next. The post can be read on The Polymath site.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Polymath

Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane II at The Polymath

Claude Monet – The Weeping Willow, 1918 – 1919

Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane II, my new post at The Polymath
is a continuation of Field Notes – The Architecture Of The Lane.

Other walks through old rural lanes and modern pavements. Shades of green. Picking wild blackberries. An impromptu conversation. Being under a wonderful weeping willow. Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane can be read on The Polymath site:
https://www.thepolymathisme.com/2026/08/field-notes-architecture-of-lane-ii.html

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Polymath

Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane at The Polymath

Olga Dashkevich – Old Apple Tree, 2023

Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane my new post on The Polymath talks of a late afternoon walk I took through old lanes and modern pavements reveals layers of architecture, class and memory. Abandoned houses, workers’ housing, porcelain swallows, hidden exhibitions and a clearing carpeted with fallen apples beneath a waxing Moon. Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane can be read here.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Essays, Raquel Pinheiro, The Polymath

New Moon In Cancer, July 2026 – The Womb and the Sanctuary & One Year of The Listening Room HQ at The Polymath

Johfra Bosschart – Cancer, 1974/75

In New Moon In Cancer, July 2026 – The Womb and the Sanctuary & One Year of The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice and The Polymath sister site – my new post on The Polymath the Cancer New Moon of July 2026 meets the first anniversary of The Listening Room HQ, exploring home, family, sanctuary, sovereignty, creativity, and the slow architecture of belonging. You can read it on The Polymath site:
https://www.thepolymathisme.com/2026/07/new-moon-in-cancer-july-2026-womb-and.html

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Gemini New Moon, June 15 – The Things That Remain at The Polymath

Gustavo Sanches de Castro – Folhas soltas de um diário (Loose pages from a diary) photo © Raquel Pinheiro

Gemini New Moon, June 15 – The Things That Remain, my new post at The Polymath, is not an ordinary astrology post.

It starts with real every day life things, a song – The Irish Goodbye by Bernard Butler – conversations, a exhibition – Sentimento Monocromático (Monocromatic Feeling) by Gustavo Sanches de Castro, a poem – Na Spailpíní Fánacha (The Wandering Spailpín) read by Ian Duhig – a radio show – RTE Arena 100 – to arrive to what, for me, endures.

There’s pigeons, swings, sliders, ice creams, conversations too. You can read the full post here.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Polymath

Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic at The Polymath

Penelope and the Ducks – Underwater Woman: Swimming In The Sea

Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic is my new post at The Polymath site.

After more than twenty years away from ocean swimming, I returned to swim in the Atlantic. Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic is a very personal thing, and post, to mr. Sea swimming, bodily memory, presence, the North Atlantic coast of Porto, Foz, rediscovering a relationship that had never truly disappeared. You can read it here.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Polymath

Field Notes – Porto, The Mountains, and Human Crossings at The Polymath Site

Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I, 1903-1907

Field Notes – Porto, The Mountains, and Human Crossings my new post on The Polymath site https://www.thepolymathisme.com/ is a lived note on Porto, exhibitions, transport hubs, mountains, symbolic conversations, creativity, and the unexpected human crossings that open new possibilities, and of how, often, the path appears afterwards. It can be read here.