Thursday, the 7th of March 2024: “Love and Loneliness Through the Generations”!!!

Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 6 degrees, bitterly cold but sunny and slightly overcast. Each day, this little woman is becoming more and more present in my life. I am trying to stop myself from being too involved, but she’s invading my heart. When I came to England, I hadn’t thought of getting involved or looking for somebody while staying here, not […]

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Tuesday the 27th of February 2024: “Life’s Continual Transition and Personal Growth”!!!

Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 1 degree, very cold, grey, shitty and possible rain. It’s nearly the end of the month. Looking back a year, I was living in Copacabana, beginning to prepare for the move to Nalva’s in Botafogo. I was living quite comfortably in a small one-bedroom flat with a partial view of Copacabana Beach. The flat and the building […]

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Monday the 26th of February 2024: “Finding Growth”!!!

Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 4 degrees, very cold, overcast and with possible rain. My weekends are relatively quiet and non-interesting in England. I don’t really have friends to go out with. Primarily, I don’t socially drink much nowadays, as I want to save money, and I don’t have a girlfriend or a flirt here. When Mondays come, it breaks the monotony […]

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Monday the 19th of February 2024: “Spring, and Brazil’s New Year”!!!

Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 9 degrees, cool, sunny, and slightly overcast. It’s lovely to see the weather milder than when I arrived. The nights are bitterly cold, and the days are mild by British standards. Spring is coming, and it is nice to see the trees along the canal paths and my mother’s next-door neighbours’ trees blossoming in a beautiful, dark […]

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Tuesday the 13th of February 2024: “Ego, Power and the Perverse Dance of Politics in Brazil”!!!

Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 5 degrees, cold, grey and damp. It is officially the last day of Carnival in Brazil, and tomorrow people will gradually start to return to work. Even more so on Thursday, and most, 100%, will be back next Monday. As I have mentioned before, regarding work and business, Brazilians consider the new year to begin on the […]

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