Stories Inspired by Life in Rural Brazil
Aren’t memories grand? Life is made of both the big milestones and the tiny pebbles under our feet.
This silly plant only flowers once a year with just one bloom per plant. But, oh, what an explosion! Crash! Bang! Flowerworks. It absolutely makes up for the year-long wait.
I am back home in Brazil and the spring rains have come. The air is deep and damp, and the humidity fills your lungs and greases your skin. I like it. It reminds me of summers at home in Maine. Funny how that happens here; this place is familiar even though the packaging is different. …
We’re on the road today from Maine to our little Brazilian town. Between packing, weather craziness in northeastern USA, last goodbyes and the travel itself I haven’t had much time to write this week. So just two quick fotocrônicas for you this Sunday. These are images from our road trip from the coastal airport in …
Saudades is the unique Brazilian word for the blues/that-ache-when-you-miss-something. When you’re away from home for a while there are many things that you miss, of course (I’m looking at you, mac’n’cheese). I’ve also been caught by surprise by a few things that I didn’t realize that I missed until I got home and stumbled over …
Old Man McLeod leaned back in his metal folding chair and sighed. He sipped slowly from his coffee mug and gazed through the steam at the explosions of colors in the trees. From the wooden patio in front of his trailer he could see down the road. Orange and gold trees arched over the road and …
Not sure why you would want to, but locals tell me somebody did–repeatedly–thus this lovely sign: NO SWIMIN’. (p.s., apologies on the grainy resolution, but no telephoto lens and I certainly wasn’t wading into these waters to get a better shot. Click on the photo to be able to read the sign better.)
Remember that post from last week where I talked about connecting with your loved ones because who knows if they’ll be around tomorrow? Sometimes the universe sends you a comment back so fast that it makes your head spin. We lost two loved ones this week. First a darling aunt of my husband, whom I …
A few weeks ago was our first-year anniversary of arriving in Brazil. Coincidentally, I’m also on my first trip back to the States since we left. It’s worth taking a few minutes to look forward and look back. Some things I’ve learned that haven’t been mentioned before: Slow food is healthier. Both of us are …
Mom says these eggs will hatch into baby tractors. Wonder if I could get one through customs?
