Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 23 degrees, warm, sunny and slightly overcast It is the middle of the week, the middle of the month and the middle of the year, and I feel I am at a turning point in my life. Obviously, I know what has passed, where I am, but more importantly, where and what I want in […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 25 degrees, hot, sunny and stormy at the end of the day. It has been 2 days since I went no contact with Julie. I feel guilty, but I also think it had to be done. I am not proud of it, but I felt I needed a break, and the constant sense of being […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 22 degrees, warm, sunny and slightly overcast. I am still a little shocked by what happened yesterday between Julie and me, and to make matters worse, I went no-contact with her. I could not take any more of the stress, the lack of peace and respect, and the feeling of being both manipulated and taken […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny but slightly cloudy. Today I was meant to have lunch at the Yacht Club with Dona Regina and her husband, Roberto. They had invited both Yasmin and me for lunch there, and we had already enjoyed a meal with them at the club a couple of years ago. Because of the […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. It has been 11 days since I returned to Rio, and I feel somewhat back in the rhythm of things. I manage early exercise in the mornings when I can, along with classes and blogging, but it still feels like it’s not enough. I […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. It’s Monday again, the start of a new week, so there are many tasks to tackle. At the moment, I don’t have any early classes on a Monday, and I am currently in sync with Brazil, with no time difference. In England, I was […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. I have been back in Rio for five days now, and I am trying to get into the old or maybe a new adapted routine. I had been doing all of this in England before, and now that I am back in Brazil, I […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a lovely day. It’s my first workday back in Rio. In England, it was four hours ahead of Brazil when I left, so I had the morning until 11 a.m. free to do what I wanted. Usually, I exercised and journaled in the local café near my […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 9 degrees, sunny, cool, with blue skies and the possibility of rain. Today is the first day my mother has left home after her surgery, apart from when she went to the doctors to have the surgical staples removed, and for physiotherapy at the hospital. My mother had booked a minibus service with ‘Ring and Ride’ that […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 12 degrees, chilly, grey and damp. Although it is not raining, it is extremely damp, and you can feel it in your bones. I wanted to get up early to go out and do some exercise, but it didn’t happen. Yesterday, I drank too many glasses of wine, and as a result, I didn’t sleep well. I […]