a journey of transformation
Maybe a year ago, maybe more, I was going through old photos and I stopped to look through the images taken while I was studying abroad. In 2009 I spent a semester in Northeastern Brazil, my first time really living in another country. I’d visited other countries before, but for a matter of weeks, not…
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How did I get my tumblr name? Well I wrote it on my tumblr where the name originates but for the sake of the challenge I’ll explain again. When I was in Brazil we’d have these ridiculous afternoon seminars most of which were either in Portuguese (therefore incomprehensible for the first 2 months) or was…
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In Brazil, they have these little cloth bracelets called lembranças. Lembrança translated means a combination of souvenir, remembrance, recollection, keepsake—but either way it is really attached to memories. They sell them in different places and the bracelets will have the name of the location that that you’re in that you want to remember, e.g.: Lembrança do…
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like black butterflies 