Are you open?

Just finished two extraordinaries books “The Help” Kathryn Stockett and “Shanghai girls” Lisa See. Both about discrimination and injustice and how women fight back, never giving up their dreams and their ability to give no matter what. We are transported back in the sixties, Mississipi, how black women cooked, cleaned and raised little white children and have their own private toilets because of the diseases they might carry for example or others discriminations each one worse than the others. “Shanghai girls” is the beautiful story of two sisters back in the sixties too, who after their father lost his fortune were sold and went living in chinatown Los Angeles and couldn’t get out of it no matter what. I am fortunate to have been raised by a french mother and a portuguese father both open to the world. I remember the parties in our house where my father was at the time responsible for black and arab countries. I remember mom wearing the traditional boubou offered to her by the Senegal’s ambassador. I knew from childhood that we are equals …

Joyeux Noel

Wish you all a very good christmas Thanks for your kind and encouraging comments Meet you in 2011 Peace Love Happiness XO

Christmas presents

This is for you  Feira “Craft and Design” 4/5 and 11/12 december   jardim da estrela Come and enjoy          Looking back L’avenir Dream big

Life is not a destination but a journey…

How appropriate it seems…it’s 8pm in Miami and 1 am in Lisbon…I don t know for how long I don’t sleep lost track of it feeling a bit lost… Last week a lady from an health center told me rather indignate “how come you ve got 2 passport one french and another portuguese? that’s not normal you should have one! Well that’s not an option for me as my mother is french and my father is portuguese. I was born in Lisbon and went to a french school all my life and am used for a long time now to read in english and I do enjoy it (big fan of Barnes and Nobles) My first draft will always be in french and I do work in a french company but on the other hand as I live in Lisbon I was told to write my blog in portuguese which maked sense at the time but why not choosing english so everyone will understand? and most of it I’ll be happy…I am feeling a little confused at the moment, trying …