The Spirit Moves
Justine Strand de OliveiraPortugal, Brazil, America: culture, food, language and more
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Cacau: the story of chocolate
Cacau, the raw material for chocolate, was discovered growing wild in Brazil’s Amazon by the Jesuits in the 1500s, and at first they simply collected the wild fruits through the labor of indigenous and enslaved people. They later began to c...
The national symbols of Portugal: knowledge now required by the new citizenship law
This is my fun exercise in guessing which national symbols the government will decide we need to know to become citizens. The official list won’t come out for 90 days, when the regulatory framework and specifics of the new law’s implementat...
Time and Pomegranates: the crisis of communication and trust in US health care
I replied to another Substacker’s post three days ago—and it got more views and likes than any of my original posts ever have. 906 views and 133 interactions, as of this writing. And then there are the naysayers and nasty comments, I lost c...
Portugal moves the goalposts on citizenship: the new nationality law
You immigrated to Portugal with the assurance, set in law, that you’d be able to apply for citizenship in five years?
Think again.
Random stairway, black doors, Marvila, Lisbon
You moved here when the time period to apply for citizenship...
A confusing, amusing, unexpected adventure
Just as I was heaving a sigh of relief that my journey was nearly over and looking forward to sleeping once again in a horizontal position, my trip turned crazy. Chaos layered on fatigue can equal disaster—but it also creates odd spaces tha...
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I live in Portugal's Algarve and write about Portugal, Brazil, America: culture, food, language and politics. And other topics as the spirit moves me.
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