My journey through poetry began many years ago in my native country of Brazil. As a little girl, I watched as my mother compose beautiful poetic verses about Brazil and its people. My mother has an extraordinary talent to write poetry that inspires the world through her motivating rhythm and mixture of words. I recall [...]
He’s a mean one…Mr. 2K Grinch
I walked past a television this evening with some flashing animation that felt and looked vaguely familiar. I stopped to look a bit closer, and while the characters were an indication of my childhood, the color, the style, and the strokes of pencil appeared very different from what I had remembered. I waited for a [...]
The reign of Cordel: when news was objective
How did we survived as a species pre-media popularity.How did people got their daily stories, especially in Brazil where much of the country only received the radio in the 1960s? Well, the answer is simple, in Northeastern Brazil daily news was told by poets, namely the Cordelistas. Cordel literature came to Brazil from Portugal and [...]
2B Scientific: The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less
As an extension of my last blog post, I wanted to find more ways that language was reflected in History…and found this great piece that led me to an incredible group of thinkers who bring Science accompanied by laughter. This piece was the inspiration for the book A Briefer History of Time and led to [...]
