Brazil, Life and Perserverence!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 7 degrees, cold, but a beautiful day. Today turned out to be a challenging walk. I left home not knowing where I would go and not interested in walking far, which is the opposite of what finally happened. I found myself going back to York Crescent, where I spent most of my childhood. There was a route […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 10 degrees, cold, rainy and dreary. My mother and I had prepared the leg of lamb on Christmas Eve. Essentially, it involved taking it out of its plastic, cleaning and drying it, covering it with salt, pepper, lemon juice, and olive oil, and making slits in the meat to insert small slices of garlic. We also placed […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 13 degrees warm for England, overcast, grey and trying to rain. It’s Christmas Eve, and usually, I’m in Brazil, where it’s hot. However, this Christmas, after more than 20 years, I’m in England, and it’s cold. I won’t be celebrating on the 24th with my family in Brazil, but on the 25th with my mother, because I’m […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 10 degrees, cold, overcast and drizzly. We are running up to Christmas night in Brazil and Christmas Day in England in terms of respective importance. It is cold, not as cold as when I arrived in November, but it is cold for an adopted carioca. For me, it’s amusing how there is so much hype leading up […]