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... he speaks English with a touch of a Brazilian accent, much like many of the Americans who have lived a long time in Brazil.), Portuguese, French, German and a little Spanish. Mattias is another one of our hosts. He identifies himself as a ...
... its call, the words fit its call with perfect diction. One of the things my brother Tom shared was that when he returned to Brazil he was suddenly in sounds, tastes and sights that he had long forgotten. He was right. Being here is bringing back a part of ...
... a conductor did on the old trains: selling tickets along the way, keeping track of passengers, etc. Being a bus driver in Brazil, a motorista, is a position of honor, held in high esteem by the poorer folk and the driver and conductor where crisp white ...
Early this morning around 6:15 a.m., sitting on our second story veranda, surrounded by a variety of flowering trees, I watched a blue-grey hummingbird take a bath. It had rained fairly hard very early in the morning so the leaves of the bitter almond ...
