Nocturnal Celestial Emissions from The SeaGoose Nebula

Nossa própria felicidade é inexplicavelmente ligado na felicidade dos outros.

Todo mundo muda muito todos os dias, nunca estamos completamente cientes das mudanças que estamos submetidos, mesmo com o mais pequeno golpe de tempo. O mundo continua, e continua fazendo o seu trabalho. Para mim, a sua muito surpreendente para um e eu sou grato por isso, ele mostra theperseverance de pessoas, e os coloque entre outros. Os mundos estado constante de mudança é milagre que me dá o querer eo desejo de se levantar a cada dia.
Eu amei Brasil até agora e ter obtido nada, mas ajuda e aceitação da família e dos que me cercam. Seus parece ser uma compreensão e paciência comigo que eu estimo e amor, e não posso estar de agradecer a todos. Uma das melhores coisas que se deslocam para o Brasil me deu é a ligação com a família. Somos moldados por aqueles que nos rodeiam, o tempo bom ou ruim, apenas é, e eu quero besurrounded por aqueles que me sinto mais confortável ao redor.
Salvador é um lugar que eu encontrar apenas o meu ritmo, que é dizer que eu nunca me senti completamente movido ao ritmo América entrou, a América não é mais rápido ou mais devagar, porque a verdade é que não importa onde você é uma pessoa escolhe a velocidade que você definir sobre sua vida. Eu quero dizer uma descontraída pensamento vai fácil esmagadora é algo que tem me dado plataforma aeasily adotáveis mais facilmente ajustar a minha jogada.

Eu não gosto de pensar que eu sou diferente de ninguém, mas me parece ser uma pessoa que é protegida e um introvertido. Estou na minha cabeça muito. Eu gosto de pensar e da quantidade de coisas para pensar quando um se move, como eu fiz e tem de aprender a língua e se conectar com a família, e fazer amigos e encontrar um trabalho que realmente encheu minha cabeça, e trouxe um sorriso para enfrentar a cada minuto que eu estar aqui tão longe. Quanto mais, melhor para mim, eu gosto do desafio da forma como eu vejo, mais guardada do que é mais difícil. Mas eu tive um monte de ajuda, que é grande e bem-vindos.

“Se em nossa vida diária, pode sorrir, se pudermos estar em paz e feliz, não só nós, mas todo mundo vai lucrar com isso.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“Seu corpo é precioso. É o nosso veículo para o despertar. Tratá-lo com cuidado.” ~ Buda

“Não importa o quanto você pode pensar que você é, você deve encontrar tempo para a leitura, ou render-se à auto-escolhido ignorância.” ~ Confúcio

“Aprenda como se você nunca seria capaz de dominá-lo, segure-o como se você estaria com medo de perdê-lo” ~ Confúcio

<End Note: I wanted to give a shoot in writing my first entry in Portuguese, it seemed like a great way to practice my writing, you can keep scrolling if you want to read in English.>

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<Our own happiness is inexplicably bound in the happiness of others.

Everyone changes so much every day, we are never quite aware of the changes that we undergo even with the littlest stroke of time. The world goes on, and keeps doing its thing. To me it’s a very amazing and I for one am grateful for it, it shows the perseverance of people, and ones place among others. The world’s constant state of change is miracle that gives me the want and desire to get up each day.

I have loved Brazil so far and have gotten nothing but help and acceptance from family and those around me. Their seems to be an understanding and patience with me that I cherish and love, and cant being to thank everyone for. One of the best things that moving back to Brazil have given me is the connecting with family. We are shaped by those around us, weather good or bad, it just is and I want to be surrounded by those that I am most comfortable around.

Salvador is a place that I find just my pace, that is to say I never quite felt I moved at the pace America went in, America is not faster or slower because the truth is no matter where you are a person chooses the speed you set your life on. I mean a laid back easy going overwhelming thought is something that has given me an easily adoptable platform to more easily adjust to my move.

I don’t like to think I am different than anyone but I seem to be a person a who is sheltered and an introvert. I am in my head a lot. I like to think and the amount of things to think about when one moves such as I did and has to learn the language and connect with family, and make friends, and find a job has really filled up my head, and has brought a smile to face every minute I have been here so far. The more the better for me, I like the challenge the way I see, the more stacked the harder it is. But I have had a whole lot of help which is great and welcome.

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.” ~Buddha

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” ~Confucius

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it” ~Confucius>

Etiquette is a code of behavior for social interaction. It is usually developed through years of interaction and formality a way to treat people well without going out of the way of insulting them. Etiquette is something adaptive to culture and location it forms independently, from house to house, situation to situation, state to state and country to country. Business Etiquette seems to be much more of a universal entity throughout the world but social etiquette is something that can be different from place to place, something you thought was OK may not be. I am not saying we must fallow these things such as laws cause if we do a people can become prisoners to their systems and unadaptive to change, and without change and growth comes death. I mention this cause I had and interesting experience that made me think about an aspect of my move to Brasil (Brazil: for those who will say I spelled it wrong.) and that is the etiquette rules here. My Portuguese lesson was wrapping up and I let my teacher open the door to my apartment, she told me that when you let a guest open the door it means you don’t want to come back, I found this interesting and it right away started to get me thinking, cause the opposite is what I am used too, when you  “show someone the door” it means you want them to leave, but if you let them open it to leave it means that you let them decide when to part from you place cause you have enjoyed their company, I honestly think the American way makes a bit more sense to me cause “showing someone the door” is just saying get out we are done here, but if I am insulting here it is good to know and easy to do. This got me to ask Cristiana my teacher to tell me some more practical etiquette rules that one would find insulting if I mistakenly carry out.

I have gotten into a good grove here I have been running (on a treadmill) and have started my P90X routine over again. I have not found a place to go and do Yoga but have been doing it at home. Also have not yet joined a gym which is something that I would like to do so I can cover some weight work that P90X does not do, only cause I use bands for the P90x routine due to that I do not have enough room for free weights or desire to spend the crazy amount of money a good free weight set costs with no practical place to put it. But with a gym I can use free weights and much more, hopefully like a sauna. I want to add if you have not tried P90X, I recommend trying it, this will be my third time doing the three month program and I have to say it works very well and does transform the body it did wonder for me.

My grandmother does not keep a whole lot of plants in the house, she stays here for six months of the year and travels to Spain for the rest of the year. Because of this she is not able to properly take care of plants. I myself enjoy plants and greenery around the place especially during my morning meditation. I bought some very nice plants for the place, and something that is cool here in Brasil the temperature and climate is perfect for Orchids and I have gotten three blossomed Orchids and six that are very young. Four of which should be blossoming here within six months and every six months on. The other two I was told that it will not start blossoming or flowering for three years so that is a long term commitment. I saw the flowers for the six plants I choose and they are amazing so I cant wait. I will take some pictures and post them on flickr to share. I got a bed as well, which is something that I was quite excited about. The bed is a whole lot bigger then the one that was in my room, and I actually fit on it. The other one was to short and my feet hung down which did not allow me to get good sleep at all. But I am now floating on clouds with a this new bed which is soft and called American style simply because it has a box spring, the size is a full, fits two people nicely, now I need a girlfriend. Everything else is going great and I am having fun, their is still a few things that I need to came this apartment a bit more homely for me. My grandmother keeps it sort of like a museum with a whole lot of things on the tables, such as highly decorated boxes and bowls which is cool and all but take up lots of space and serves no direct purpose and that is my only problem with it, one thing that I do like is the paintings their is a whole lot of original large paintings on the walls, which I like a lot, I am going to move one to put in a flat screen television but I am going to hang up else where. I am bit reluctant to move it cause I do enjoy the works. Original art is something that should be admired and I do, that is all but the painted bowls and boxes they take up practical space.

Little by little all things get done, it is what I practice and believe. Over time everything will come together, and hopefully everyone will stop trying to get me a job, my whole family have came out with stuff I can do for work some with my degree others not. I feel I need to do some learning and just being a little here before I am ready to work and what I want to do is teach English, but I also feel that dismissing offers  is shutting doors and I hate to do that. So I will keep my eyes and ears opened and if I get offered something that seems really interesting I will hear it out. That is if I cant get my English lessons going.

Final note: The Graffiti here is amazing, true art and pure talent. I have not taken many photographs lately, but not because lack of desire. I am told that carrying a nice camera like that by myself is not a good idea so I cant walk and shoot like I like to, but once I figure a way around it I will be taking lots of photos. Salvador itself is beautiful, the beaches are amazing, the people are pretty (I think that most women here are beautiful), so their a whole lot of subjects not including the stellar graffiti.

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Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

Email Me: brothershine@gmail.com

I have made it save and sound. The above picture is a view from my balcony, where I eat breakfast in Salvador Bahia Brazil. The ocean is a about a 10 minute walk from here and it is down hill. I also was able to get the Internet as you can see. But I have been very busy doing things that came up. For example when I arrived not only did I not have the Internet but I was not able to plug in my computer to the wall so I had to find an adopter for the plug and that took several days, but once I found everything was good and I could recharge my laptop, and plug the rest of my things in such as my clock radio.

But some of the official things I had to do was to get my enlistment out of the way. Here in Brazil you have to go one of the forts around the city and pledge to the flag, every male has to do it, without doing  it you are not able to get a CPF. Without a CPF you cannot get a job, or for that matter a phone, or many other things that are needed. But today I have finally finished with all that.

I am waken up by a rooster everyday. There are no farms around here so I think the rooster is wild and rooming the streets, that is no so off their are random chickens running around that and wild pack of dogs, the dogs don’t bite they just live on the street and eat up whatever is their. Something else I found is that there is nudity in the newspaper, not just breast but full body as well, it was in the cultural section of the paper the other day, the article was about a photographer in Europe who just showed some work of the female body. Also prostitution is legal here in all of Brazil but in the newspaper in the classified section their are prostitutes adds that you can read, and if your like me get a laugh at, the words they use and the way they advertise is funny, specs.

The city of Salvador is beautiful and I really have been enjoying walking around. I have hit the beach up a few days in the morning and plan on going more often, I just have been running around everywhere getting this stuff out of the way. But now I will enjoy the sun and fun of the winter in Salvador. Yes it is winter now and it has rained every day since i have been here but it is like this, it will rain really hard for about five minutes then stop.

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Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

Email Me: brothershine@gmail.com