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Fotocrônica: Oh the Shame

Lots of larger Brazilian supermarkets have started the policy of not providing plastic shopping bags. The customer is expected to bring their own reusable bag. The populace is still adjusting, especially since it varies from store to store. I occasionally shop at a large supermarket in larger Theófilo Otoni to buy the items we crave …

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Category: Comedic, Journalistic, Socio-PoliticalTag: Araújo, culture, culture-shock, Fotocrônica, plastic bags, recycling

Repost: Trash

Dear friends, for the next few weeks I’ll be off taking a class in our state capital of Belo Horizonte (if you want to sound like a local say: “Beh-Agha” — B.H.). Travel always gets my pen (cursor?) rolling, and I have no doubt that I’ll have lots of observations and crônicas to tell by …

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Category: Journalistic, Nostalgia, Socio-PoliticalTag: catadores, first-world problem, recycling, rural life, trash

Autumn Road

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 …

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Category: Comedic, NostalgiaTag: family, happiness, recycling, rural life

Trash Redux

I have a horrible time keeping track of which day it is.  Let’s be honest, I was never particularly talented at it.  I’d like to blame it on much international travel and lots of exposure to a non-Western time sense, rather than consider that it’s just a glaring character flaw.  Yes, let’s do that. To make matters …

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Category: Comedic, Socio-PoliticalTag: recycling, rural life

Trash

I get a lot of thinking done while swinging a scythe. Shamefully, today I spent most of my time mentally cursing out the in-laws who had dumped their trash among the bushes I was trying to clear. Bottles, lost shoes, tin cans–I never knew what I was going to hit. How could they be so …

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Category: Nostalgia, Philosophy, Socio-PoliticalTag: catadores, culture, farming, recycle, recycling, rural life, upcycling

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