Marlene

July 11, 2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

It was on the special occasion of her last night in Rio de Janeiro. We were smashed up against the bar of a famous samba venue when two warrior women, exaggerating their merriment, disrespected the personal space of the Queen.

Sobre outros Rios | Paquetá Island

January 17, 2021.Reading time 13 minutes.

Que ilha você levaria para uma pessoa deserta? Fácil: Paquetá! |
The folkloric island in the middle of Guanabara Bay is not to be missed!

Street Art – Rio | Arte de rua – Rio

January 13, 2021.Reading time 31 minutes.

O acervo está aberto: Passei 10 anos fotografando no Grande Centro do Rio de Janeiro | After 10 years photographing the urban art of Rio de Janeiro, the exhibition is open.

Gloria Arieira’s Yoga sutras of Patañjali

January 10, 2021.Reading time 26 minutes.

“The Yoga Sutras?” I laughed, “Why read them when there is the Bhagavadgita?” I had never imagined I would translate them the way I had done for the Gita.

Table for one: pandemic cooking

December 29, 2020.Reading time 15 minutes.

That’s it. I’m tired. It has been nine months cooking for myself. The summer is now here in Rio de Janeiro and it is hot. I don’t want to cook anymore.

Head-carrying | Carregar na cabeça

November 27, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Although he hadn’t carried the jackfruit from its origins in the Western Ghats of India for the fruit to do so well in the Serra do Mar of Rio de Janeiro, I knew exactly where he had gotten it. And it seemed as no less of an incredible feat to have carried the heavy monster all the […]

Thoughts on “the Social Dilemma”

September 22, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Ok, ok, OK! I watched “The SOCIAL DILEMMA”! It was hardly news to me. What was more interesting was another problem, two actually.

uma foto abandonada

September 17, 2020.Reading time 27 minutes.

Mas o que realmente me impediu de acionar a câmera, e me fez colocá-la de volta no estojo, perdendo o que poderia ter sido a foto perfeita, uma cápsula do tempo, foi uma sensação semelhante à que ocorre pouco antes de se colher uma flor, quando a dúvida interfere na escolha de se possuir a beleza destruindo-a.

The Untaken Frame

September 10, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It was an honor to have the story of the picture I chose not to take to be selected by JAGGERY, the literay jounal of South Asia:

Old school

June 7, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

I don’t have a television might seem like the vainglorious boast of a pedantic bookworm. It might have been twenty years ago. Today, however, this detail about the choices I’ve made does not say very much, considering all the time I spend on the internet. Apparently, television has gotten better since I was a kid watching […]