“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.”
- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
Family Photos
Feb 20
Charming men know how to taste lives: English in other languages
Feb 19
I’m not gay but I don’t care if you are
All in the confines of the King’s Palace
Feb 09
“Go on, who knows what awaits you there, it’s all opportunities in this place. Only of course some opportunities are too big to be taken advantage of, as it were; there are things that fail for no reason other than themselves. Oh yes, it’s amazing.”
̶̶ Castle secretary, The Castle. Franz Kafka
Jan 28
Sunday in Salvador
Jesus walks
The most important religious and popular party on the calendar takes place on the second Thursday in January. Dressed in traditional white garb and strings of beads, Bahianas (of the uniquely Brazilian, slave-descendant religion Candomble) lead an 8-kilometer (5-mile) procession of similarly white-attired and perfumed devotees and partyers from Comércio to the (Catholic) Igreja do Bonfim for the washing (lavagem) of the church steps.