In Focus: Craig Jenkins

Marc Fortuna with his Welsh friend Craig Jenkins in Kingston Uppon Thames, Surrey, England

All my life (poem)

Eleven years of ups and downs
And now, the question: are we compatible?
Too late to answer… we should think about that before
When I was younger
When you were younger
When we still had ten years before now to try to be happy.

But happiness is an empty box
Full of dreams and things we can’t see
Full of hopes that never fulfil
Full of love and trying and trying again.

Well, what can I say?
What can I expect?
Nothing… nothing more than I can have
Nothing more that I just got for the last 10 years.

My future belongs to God
My past belonged to someone
My present belongs to you.

Meaning: All my life — past, present and future —
Has never belonged to me.


© Marc Fortuna (Lord Fortuna of Lancaster) – 20/03/2009

Memoirs: Visiting Paris

Marc Fortuna and his beloved mother Helena Fortuna visiting the Eiffell Tower, in Paris.

 

 

Marc Fortuna et sa chère mère Helena Fortuna visiter la Tour Eiffell, à Paris.

Abdicate (poem)

I give up
I suffer in silence
You ll no longer hear my sound
[my blue song].
I tell you what:
My broken heart
Cries the melody with no meaning
[of loving].
If you love me and you don t want
my presence
If you look for my body and you bring me absence
What should I do to have you?
Die for you?
What is death
but the absence of life?
You want me close
but you keep me far...
distant...
lover with no chance. . .


©Marc Fortuna(Lord Fortuna of Lancaster)

March 8th: International Women´s Day

Todays we comemmorate worldwide the blessing being we call Women: mothers, sisters, wives... women. I wanted to do something different to leave registered my tribute to the International Women's Day.  I did not want to use mounted images found on the net. To me, every woman I met during my journey of 40 years of existence, are extremely important ... they are goddesses, all of them!

I pay here my tribute to every woman I met (just a few of them are in this picture), I leave my reverence, my admiration, I knelt at their feet and pray to the Virgin Mother to cover each of these wonderful women with Her blessing mantle.

May God bless you always!

Marc Fortuna, TMHN Lord of Lancaster

Itanhaém: JR and the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party

                                                                                                                                                    Foto: Richard Price

Jorge Caruso, José Roberto, Mauro Vitturi and Marc Fortuna

The businessman José Roberto Pereira do Nascimento, JR, is completing one year ahead of the presidency of the PMDB Itanhaém. Like his predecessor Marc Fortuna, the trajectory of the party during this period is marked by frequent participation in important debates, seeking the economic and social development  of the city and welfare of the population.

Ze Roberto is pre-candidate for mayor to the next municipal election. PMDB, which once was called MDB, already elected three mayors in Itanhaém: Dr. Edson in 1982, Jaime Carrasco in 1988 and John Carrasco in 1996.

 

Continuing the excellent work that was being developed during Marc Fortuna's administration, since his inauguration as PMDB president in March 2010, Ze Roberto continues attracting the participation of businessmen, shopkeepers and sector leaders to the Party. 

The businessman and pre-candidate for mayor Ze Roberto was president of the Commercial Association of Itanhaém for two terms, with satisfactory results for the business class. According to Ze Roberto, the main goal for PMDB is now the orderly growth of the city. "We´re seeing some movement on Petrobras and commercial activities, with new ones coming. But the town can´t attract investments without having an updated legislation. Our proposal is that the Master Plan, for example, passes for an urgent review, with the participation of the whole society. "

 

Being for more than 2 decades on PMDB, Marc Fortuna (former president of PMDB Itanhaém and former regional president of South Coast and Ribeira Valley Representation of the Foundation Ulysses Guimarães - FUG SP), the administration of  Ze Roberto front PMDB Itanhaém is excellent, taking into account the common difficulties in administering a Party of such magnitude as PMDB.

 

Fortuna, who currently heads  the Information Office of the Deputy Mayor (and pre-candidate for mayor) Ruy Santos, acknowledges the work of Ze Roberto as the leader of the Party. "I was talking with the vice-president Michel Temer and also with the new state party chairman Baleia Rossi, and praised the excellent work Ze Roberto is doing, keeping the same guidelines for growth of the party that we had during my mandate. We now need to rescue the political training courses in town, and  I already put myself at the disposal of the president to assist in this area, "said Fortuna.