Eating from the Manger
This time of the year everywhere we look we see the nativity scene, the baby in the manger together with Marie and Joseph surrounded by the wise men, the pastors,…
Lush Tomatoes
The interior of the Brazilian northeast is a very dry and arid region making it very hard to prepare the land for plantation. For that reason, water reservoirs are built…
Like Salmons
It is fascinating how Salmons as anadromous fishes go back from the sea to the rivers where they were born to spawn. They swim up the river in the opposite…
Load Shedding
Load shedding is the rotative limitation of electric power supply by its provider due to its incapacity to deliver energy to all. This measure is usually taken when the demand…
Jesus in our Town
Some years ago my wife and I fulfilled a long awaited dream to visit Israel. What a privilege to walk where biblical figures did and specially to walk through where…
Power Struggle
My parents pioneered the work of the Salvation Army in Portugal, so I lived in Lisbon exactly in the period of the “carnation revolution”. This is the revolution that on…
Paris Easter
On 31 May 2009 the Air France flight 447, going from Rio to Paris, fell in the ocean near the northeast of Brazil. Junior dos Santos, a crew member and…