The First Month Went Past

[dotinthesky]

“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.

Comments

[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.

[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.

[rockingthemike.livejournal.com]

i hope that's all it is, and it lessens in time. <3

[picosgemeos.livejournal.com]

Thanks my friend