Leonardo da Vinci foi o que podemos chamar de um ser humano polivalente, era um curioso insaciavel e pelo que ele escreveu em seus cadernos vemos um homem bem a frente de seu tempo, nao so no quesito intelectual, mas como edificador do bom senso e da espiritualidade humana na definicao mais singela. Quando morreu nao tinha nocao alguma que revolucionara a arte e a ciencia, em leito de morte pediu ao seu assitente que finalizasse algumas de suas obras e tinha certeza porque estava certo que nao tinha feito nada de siginficante. Mas fez !, Leonardo foi a personificacao do homem renascentista. Alem de escultor, pintor, arquiteto, matematico, engenheiro, inventor e por ai vai...foi tambem musico. Deleite-se com a musicalidade de um genio! BRASILEIA,Brazil Of the odyssey that delivered him to this town in the BrazilianAmazon, Wesley Saint-Fleur could muster only a look of exhaustion andbewilderment. Months ago,he boarded a bus in Haiti, before getting on a plane in the Dominican Republic,landing first in Panama and then in Ecuador. That was where his wife gave birthto their son, Isaac, he said, bouncing the 4-month-old infant on his knee andbrandishing the boys Ecuadorean identification card. Then they continued bybus yet again, through Ecuador and Peru. Next, they trekked by foot in Bolivia,where, he said, the police robbed him and his wife of their clothing and theirlife savings: $320 in cash. Then wefinally got to Brazil, which Im told is building everything, stadiums, dams,roads, said Mr. Saint-Fleur, 27, a construction worker, one of hundreds ofHaitians who gather each day around the gazebo in Brasileias palm-fringedplaza. All I want is work, and Brazil, thank God, has jobs for us. Gamblingeverything, thousands of Haitians have made their way across the Americas toreach small towns in the Brazilian Amazon over the past year in a desperatesearch for work, including a surge of hundreds arriving in recent days amid fearsthat Brazils government could slow the influx before it overwhelms theauthorities here. Theirimprobable journeys from the rubble of their island homes to remote outpostshere in the Amazon say as much about the dire economic conditions that persistin Haiti two years after the earthquake as it does about the rising economicprofile of Brazil, which is fast becoming a magnet not only for poor foreignlaborers but also for growing numbers of educated professionals from Europe,the United States and Latin America. Uponarriving here and in other border outposts, the Haitians are often givenvaccinations, clean water and two meals a day by the authorities. Many stay forweeks in Brasileia and other towns before being granted humanitarian visas thatallow them to work in Brazil. But withsuch a crush of new arrivals, others have not been so lucky. After travelingthousands of miles and overcoming countless obstacles, some crowd eight to asmall hotel room or wind up sleeping on the streets, almost reliving the miserythey had hoped to leave behind. I cannotallow the sadness to take over, since opportunity will follow this hard phase,said Simonvil Cenel, 33, a tailor awaiting a visa who leads animatedevangelical prayer services for those stuck in limbo after enduring so