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On Cavaquinho… Read more
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I have visitors this month (actually from last Friday until just after Christmas). I’ll try to continue posting, but you’ll see a huge drop on the frequency of posts. The drop actually has already stated last week as I was preparing the house… And most likely I’ll be posting more pictures than writing, as that’s Read more
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“Childe Roland to the dark tower came.” (Robert Browning) So for about a year of my time on my when and where, I followed Roland on the many years on his many whens and wheres. Today our quest came to an end as I finished the last book of The Dark Tower series, by Stephen Read more
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Big business meeting, more people than chairs. I chose happily to sit on the floor. I can move more freely when need to change position. My legs, hip and back thank me for that. Back from lunch, people insist on getting me a chair. I refuse. They don’t get it. This post was written Read more
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He is crossing the desert after the man who killed his father. The crossing is though, but the need for revenge keeps him going. After days in open desert, he finally reaches a village. The story of the murder and his seek for revenge travelled faster than he did, though, and the townsfolk knew who Read more
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I hope you all had a great holiday season. Be it Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or whatever you like to celebrate at the end of the Gregorian calendar year. For me the holidays were great. We stayed home and managed to do several projects. Christmas party was fun, with a visit from Santa and lots of Read more
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Tree is shimmering. Santa shall come! This post was written in response to the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller’s Six Word Story Challenge, with the theme Believe. It was also inspired by my kids who picked the place for the tree so that Santa would see it and find the house to leave the presents on. The picture Read more
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Today I guess I’ll go over and beyond with the NaBloPoMo and post twice! But the subject that I want to write today, has to be today. November 13th. That’s the date of my great-aunt Lygia’s birthday. She’s not among us anymore for quite a while now (18 years???), but she’s someone the entire family Read more
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Seisyll shows a flier to Sineta, about a lantern festival to be held on October 24th. “That’s on my 16th birthday! Just like Disney’s Rapunzel. I wanna see it!” “That’s what I thought you would. We go together?” “Yes! Of course! Wait a minute… you know what would be even more perfect?” “What?” “Not too Read more
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Sorry to use the blog for fundraising purposes, but it’s for a good cause… Next week, my daughter will be participating on a Hop-a-Thon on her classroom to help raise funds to benefit children with muscular dystrophy and other muscle disabilities. To help even more, we set up a fundraising page on their website and Read more
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Originally posted on wellfesto: Mid-way through a recent group exercise class, the teacher lost me. She didn’t lose me because of some complicated step sequence or insanely long set of burpees; I mentally checked out because of a few words she kept saying over and over. “Come on! Get that body ready for your winter… Read more
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In the past 2 weeks I took off from cold and wet Pacific Northwest, to bright and warm Atlantic Southeast. Crossed the entire country in a diagonal. Saturday we flew back arriving here really, really late, which means yesterday was a jet-legged-sleep-deprivation-hang-over day. Today things are better. I’m back to work, but there is almost Read more
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Read more
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When I was a teenager and lived with my parents, we used to have a manicure come to our house every week to do our nails. In Brazil that’s very common, as this type of service tends to be pretty cheap. And the whole processes included: Remove old polish with acetone Clip and/or sand the Read more
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I have many cousins. My mom was the oldest of 6, out of which 5 had 2 or 3 kids. My dad’s brother has another 2. There are also the kids of my mom’s cousins, who are also cousins. And the older half-brother of some of my cousins and their cousins from the other end Read more
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This morning I was participating on a meeting with 7 other people, to a total of 8 people in the room. Subject wasn’t the most interesting of all, so at some point I found myself with some very odd and weird thoughts. Going back in time for a few years just to add some background…. Read more
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At a friends place, watching final game of a soccer championship, my home country is winning the game, my host is very excited, to the point that the kids come to check what’s happening with every shout of her. But I feel bored. What happened to me? I used to enjoy watching soccer… Oh well… Read more
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From my Fresh Paint. Read more
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Last week, my daughter got home asking my husband about where did the very first person in the world came from. He started trying to explain the evolution theory and she kept asking and seems very interested. So that same night we decided to search for children books on evolution and ended up adding a book Read more
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