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“You went from living in one of the world’s capitals to living in one of the world’s smallest towns,” said a friend recently as we walked the hills that surround my family’s guesthouse.

…From working in a large UK charity to working at home, from commuting two hours a day to living at my workplace, from spending hours a day in front of a computer to hours a day in a garden, from caring for my career and my social life to caring for my mom, who has Alzheimer’s.

I visited friends in São Paulo last weekend and came back rejuvenated.

At night, we watch a new soap opera, Bom Sucesso, about a rich man with 6 months to live and the not-rich woman who takes care of him. The man owns a failing publishing house and enjoys introducing classics to the woman. The Scarlett Letter, Othello, Sherlock Holmes. I've downloaded free copies of some of these to my new Kindle, a goodbye gift from my work colleagues.

I’ve started running again and doing pull ups on the bar my brother set up in his backyard.

on 2019-09-04 06:00 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] norabird.livejournal.com

Hope is proving restorative in some ways! Xx

on 2019-09-04 06:44 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] picosgemeos.livejournal.com
Thank you - it is xx

on 2019-09-04 07:33 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] turnintobirds.livejournal.com
So beautiful. x

on 2019-09-04 07:35 pm (UTC)

on 2019-09-04 10:57 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] rockingthemike.livejournal.com
how has your mom been since you've been back, ollie? hopefully having you home has brought her a little peace as well.

on 2019-09-07 04:51 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] picosgemeos.livejournal.com
She has deteriorated since December, and I had some worries around her behaviour - but I think now it was due to grief, she seems to have recuperated. It's a take-it-by-the-day process here.

on 2019-09-22 11:17 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] rockingthemike.livejournal.com
i hope that's all it is, and it lessens in time. <3

on 2019-09-24 10:35 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] picosgemeos.livejournal.com
Thanks my friend

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