Goodbye 2017… Hello 2018

Last day of the year is a time to reflect about the years that is ending. So many good things happened but we tend to hold on to the negative events.  Guess that for me what mostly stood out was dad’s passing, which pretty much hides all the good things.

Even though we know that everyone will eventually pass away, it is still a difficult event to accept. Why is that? Is it because we are selfish? Is it because we think that we can beat the laws of Nature, the laws of God? Do we believe that we can live forever and ever like in the fairytales?

We know the answer to these questions and the simple answer is that one day or another we will all pass.

2017 was a very hard year, especially here in Brazil. After the coup, jobs have been lost; prices have gone up, not to mention inflation, which is not mentioned by the way.

Isn’t great that we get an opportunity to hope for the best with the start of a new year? Can you imagine how life would be horrible if we didn’t have this end and start? Humans need this sense of hope. New Year’s Eve can be compared to celebrating a birthday. It’s a personal new chance to make a difference and look forward to what is to come.

The New Year begins tonight. May we live intensely every moment with peace and hope, for life is a gift and every moment is a blessing from God.

Happy 2018 to all of my readers.

Thank you for reading!

Written: December 31, 2017 Todos os direitos reservados a Meire Marion.

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The Day Good Beat Evil

After a year or more of

dictatorship,

fear ,

no democracy,

no greetings,

shrieks,

tension,

stress,

tears,

sweat,

but no blood

justice came through.

The community came together

from the lowest

to the highest

with questions that could not be answered,

in peace,

with applause,

with tears –

sad tears.

It took a few hours, but the fall came.

The fall was hard;

like a tree after the lumberjack yells

T I M B E R!!!!

The fall was just.

Good had won

with applause,

with tears-

joyful tears.

A memorable day!

Written : December  15,2017 Todos os direitos a Meire Marion

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Life Is Amazing

On a rainy Friday night on the way to watch the musical Singing in the Rain, in the cab you start chatting about how bad the weather is. When you first got in the cab you noticed that the driver looked familiar. But then again since you usually take a cab when you go to the theater, he could have driven you on one of those outings.

Drive and stop. Drive and stop. Finally you put down your cell phone and ask the driver if he thinks it´ll be long before we get to the theater. Although you have been there before, you try hard to recall the distance but to no avail.

Enough talking about the traffic and the rain and how crazy people drive on this day and in this kind of weather, so, you ask a few questions because he does look so familiar and you want to find out where you know him from without coming flat out and saying it. Questions like where his stop is, if he lives in the area, how long he has been a taxi driver and so on.

It just so happens that before he was a taxi driver back in 1982 he was a bus collector (in Brazil it is not the driver who receives the money, it is another person.)

Bingo! You know where you have seen him before. Then you asked if he worked the 325 line and wide eyed he says yes and asks how you knew that. Then you tell him that you used to take that line to go to work every morning for a whole year in 1982. Suddenly he says that he thought I looked familiar. He adds that he only worked that line that year. He is perhaps more amazed than you are.

36 years later and life makes your paths cross again. What is life´s intention in doing this? 

Written December 7, 2017 Todos os direitos reservados a Meire Marion

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