Life | Brazil | Resilience!!!
Journalled on Sunday, 27th of July 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26 degrees, hot, sunny and perfect blue sky. It is Sunday, and Yasmin is still with me. She will head back to her mother’s this afternoon, then come stay again later in the week. Yesterday we had lunch at a small Mexican restaurant in Praça Mauá. […]
Journalled on Friday, 20th of February 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 30 degrees, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. It is Friday, exactly one week since my tooth extraction, and today I take the last of the medicine. Carnival has filled Rio’s streets, but my week has been much quieter than the city around me. From last Friday […]
Journalled on Friday, 10th of January 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot and overcast. We’re back home in Rio after three days in Paraty, the historic town about 200 km down the coast. It wasn’t quite what we’d expected, with so much rain. Even so, we got to see a little of the town, and […]
Journalled on Tuesday, 10th of June 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 21 degrees, warm, and overcast. Today is Tuesday, and it’s been a productive day. I journaled twice, worked on four separate videos, and got through my daily classes as always. I have never felt so productive with video work. The truth is, I have only been […]
Journalled on Wednesday, 14th of August 2024 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 22 degrees, hot, sunny, with a blue sky. It is the middle of the week, and I’m about to give an experimental class to a prospective new pupil. Marcela, an ex-pupil of mine, referred Thiago to me. Marcela had to stop her classes in January because […]
Journalled on Friday, 22 August 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, sunny and blue sky. I think I was taught, from a young age, to put myself second, to forget my own needs in the name of others. And even when I did exactly that, it wasn’t always met with kindness. Sometimes it made me […]
Journalled on Friday, 22 August 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, sunny and blue sky. It’s Friday, the end of the week. I’m a little tired, and honestly, my feelings are mixed right now. But when I step back and look at things analytically, I’m okay. Better than okay, actually. And I think it’s worth […]
Journalled on Monday, 25 May 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 24 degrees, warm and overcast. Parenthood does not become simpler when a child reaches adulthood. The questions change, but the uncertainty remains: when should we give guidance, when should we step back, and how much of the present is shaped by the past? It is Monday, and […]
Journalled on Sunday, 16 November 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. It is Sunday, and I will take Yasmin to her ENEM exam. ENEM is a national Brazilian exam for all pupils who have completed or are about to complete second grade at school and intend to attend university, particularly federal […]
Journalled on Thursday, 12 February 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 33 degrees, very hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. There are two kinds of nothing. There is the good kind, the nothing you choose: doing nothing, going nowhere, speaking to nobody, not working, perhaps not even eating or drinking. That kind of nothing feels like freedom because you […]