By Ismar, Brazil. Electricity, mobile phones, Sunday shopping, online gambling and an election led me towards a different everyday mystery: perhaps what we take for granted is not the thing itself, but the life we have built around it. When I press a light switch, I expect the light to come on. I don’t think…
By Ismar, in Brazil. I have always believed there is a line between being interested in another person and entering a part of their life that does not belong to you. Then I started dancing, met new people and discovered that sometimes curiosity opens a door rather than crosses a boundary. When I was a…
I have always believed there is a line between being interested in another person and entering a part of their life that does not belong to you. Then I started dancing, met new people and discovered that sometimes curiosity opens a door rather than crosses a boundary. By Ismar When I was a child, my…
At 65, I am not sure that I will become a good dancer. But after spending a great deal of time alone, ballroom dancing has brought new people, movement and fun into my life. By Ismar My sixty-fifth birthday contained two surprises. At lunchtime, I went to a restaurant with my mother, my aunt and…
A Brida conversation recap — with the roles reversed, and Frank thinking out loud in full stereo. Some Brida meetings feel like jazz: a theme, a few riffs, then everyone finds their way back to the melody. This one felt like a spotlight turned gently—but firmly—onto Frank. Ismar didn’t ask “small talk” questions. He asked…
