Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 11 degrees, fresh, overcast and with rain later. It is Wednesday, the middle of the week, and we’re nearing the end of the month. A lot is happening in my personal life. This beautiful, little, perfect woman has now taken up a large part of my life. It was not planned to be so violent at such […]
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 […]
Monday the 4th of March 2024: “Reflecting on New Possibilities”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: -2 degrees, bitterly cold, but beautiful day. Monday morning marks the start of the week, and there is a lot to do. Besides giving classes and helping my mother, I need to find out when DJI will be able to deliver my drone and camera, which I bought at the end of February. There seems to be […]
Wednesday the 28th of February 2024: “Finding Joy and Purpose in Simple Things and Others”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 1 degree, bitterly cold, with foggy conditions in the morning that turned to rain for the rest of the day. It is a shitty day, very cold, rainy and damp, and even so, I want to go out for a walk around. I do not want to stay locked in at home. I found an excuse to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Saturday the 24th of February 2024: “Conversing with Wordsley Natives”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 3 degrees, fresh and sunny in the morning but cold in the afternoon and evening. It’s a beautiful, sunny, and fresh day. Exercise early, write in my journal early, and be ready to go out. When I’m in Brazil, I often say that I’m going to talk to the natives, or I will be with the natives, […]
Friday the 23rd of February 2024: “English Nature to Brazilian Chaos”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 3 degrees, bitterly cold but sunny with blue skies. In the morning, it was a beautifully sunny day with blue skies, but in the afternoon, it was shitty weather with a lot of rain and bitterly cold. I usually have a class at 11 a.m. in England, which is 7 a.m. in Brazil. I sometimes expect the […]
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 […]
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 […]