Life | Brazil | Resilience!!!
Journalled on Wednesday, 28th of August 2024 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 23 degrees, warm, sunny and slightly overcast. My meeting with Fernando, my accountant, was originally scheduled for 3 p.m., but last night he asked me to move it up to 9 a.m. It’s funny how things fall into place. I usually have a class with Elisa […]
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 Thursday, 16th of April 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26 degrees, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. It’s Thursday, and we’re approaching a long weekend. Everybody is beginning to slow down with classes, though journaling and video editing are going full steam ahead. In six days, it will be my 60th birthday, and I’m feeling mixed […]
Journalled on Monday, 1st of December 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26°C, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. It’s Monday, the first day of December, and this year has flown by, taking time, and a piece of my life, with it. I’m feeling slow today. My body aches and creaks, probably from all the exercise over the weekend, […]
Journalled on Friday, 23rd of January 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 22 degrees, warm to cool, overcast and with heavy rain. It’s Friday, and it’s pissing down. It’s been raining all week, with more forecast over the weekend and right through next week. We’re in the middle of the carioca summer, when it should be in the […]
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 […]