From Puns to Power: What Ordinary People Teach UsThe call opened the way these lunches often do: with the gentle chaos of geography, time zones, and people checking which “island” they’re currently on. Nathalie had just survived a long flight and was slowly re-entering the English-speaking world (a process that deserves its own recovery plan)….
Empathy, culture, and the quiet art of reading people On a weekday that is morning for some and late afternoon for others, five tiny rectangles of light open across the world. Frank joins from Cleebourg in France, hunched over a laptop in a café where, as he explains, you can’t even get the Wi-Fi password…
Sharing positive vibes across three continents The sun is out in Johannesburg, hesitating over London, and blazing in São Paulo. On a weekday morning, three small rectangles light up on a screen: Janita in South Africa, Bruce in Britain, and Rosie in Brazil. They greet each other the way old friends do, overlapping questions, laughter,…
It’s 10:30 in the morning somewhere, lunchtime somewhere else, and almost summer in a few hearts. A chorus of “Are we recording?” gives way to the soft crackle of global hellos: a retired professor in London clearing his throat; a teacher-turned–school inspector joining from São Paulo, still catching her breath; a new voice from Strasbourg,…
It was lunchtime for one of us, night for another, dawn for a third. The screen sliced the world into four gentle windows: Janita in South Africa hosting, Frank (“the Mayor”) in a quiet French village, Rosii in the noise and brightness of São Paulo, and Monica in Adelaide, where the day had already given…
Johannesburg. Adelaide. São Paulo. Cleebourg.Four screens glow in three time zones. It’s Thursday again — time for the Brida Lunch with Janita & Frank. A ritual stitched together by humour, accents, and the strange intimacy of online friendship. Today’s topic: joy and meaning in life. Janita — “Frootloop” to the others — hosts from a…
The Four Seasons of Life From Seoul to São Paulo, from London to Cleebourg and Johannesburg — five voices gather around one virtual table. The result? A conversation that flows like time itself: warm, reflective, and beautifully human. A Global Lunch Becomes a Meditation on Living It started like so many Pineapple moments do —…
