Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies. After a day and night of celebrations yesterday, I got up as usual early, but with only three hours’ sleep. The girls, Nalva and her sisters, had organised a BBQ for 20 people, but there were only six. I ate a lot of meat, and good meat […]
Over the Atlantic Ocean, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26 degrees, hot, Sunny but slightly overcast. After all the confusion of yesterday, with two check-ins, paying extra for luggage twice, and instead of flying with KLM yesterday morning, I’m now flying with Lufthansa from yesterday evening. However, I won’t be flying directly to Rio; I will first pass through […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 8 degrees, cold, grey, rainy and overcast. It is Monday, and it is my birthday. I’m 58 today—where has the time gone? It also feels a little strange that when I look at myself in the mirror, I see someone who looks older. Clearly, I’m not the person I was at 50, 40, or 30, and […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 6 degrees, bitterly cold and grey. It is my mother’s birthday, and I must be a good son and do the right thing. As I have always said, my mother was, is, and has always been a difficult person. Perhaps, in the last 20 years alone, she has paid her debt to society and the family. I […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 25oC, warm, sunny and slightly overcast. Part 2: What I did on my birthday: there were some ups and downs, which is life itself; we never know about tomorrow. Even though it was my birthday, I was up early and out to exercise at 5 am. It was a little chilly, but as the day progressed, […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 25oC, warm, sunny and slightly overcast. It is my birthday, and there had been many expectations from the last two. My birthday last year represented another big change in my life. In spiritualism, significant life changes usually occur at a multiple of seven years in your life, such as 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, etc. […]