So he and I can afford our time on earth — As soon as he walked through the door, I immediately noticed what was about to happen. …

Ugly for some, beautiful for others. — When I came into the world, some buildings were already part of the urban network of my town. At the time seen as modern, today they are nothing more than a legacy of a chaotic time, not very harmonious, and in which this so desired modernity seemed to be connected…

Part three — This is the sequence of other two stories published here: Our Lord of the Steps, Deliver Us From Sin, Today and Forever, Amen. A child, two statues, a priest, and a whole twisted society.medium.com But even there, in Vinhedouro, they counted the many who were not born in a cradle of gold but in the outskirts of that house. …

Like the Titanic, the planet is sinking. Meanwhile, who are we in this real-life movie? — It’s a well-known scene from the Titanic. No! I’m not talking about poor Jack, who might have fit in the floating door with Rose, nor about the historical incongruity of having supposedly authentic Picasso paintings on the ship. (Seriously, how did we let this one pass?) I am talking about…

Clergy, nobility, and people, our middle ages in 2023. — This is a story that is the continuation of this one: Our Lord of the Steps, Deliver Us From Sin, Today and Forever, Amen. A child, two statues, a priest, and a whole twisted society.medium.com Even in the Hail Mary, the most intimate entrails of a woman’s body did not escape the catechism. As soon as the prayer begins, we are immediately thrown into thinking about the blessed fruit of Mary’s womb, that ideal…

A child, two statues, a priest, and a whole twisted society. — No one chooses to be born poor, but one is born that way, and most of the time, that dictates both birth and death. If we had the opportunity to choose, we would all be poor. We would all be seen like that, as a piece out of the normal…

The city of Porto yesterday, today, and who knows what it will be like tomorrow? — I was born in Viseu, a name almost impossible to pronounce for foreigners, in the center north of Portugal, but even more important, in what we call the Interior — for those who don’t know, there are two Portugals; the one on the coast, visited by 95% of our tourists…

And it is probably not only in Portugal. — I used to walk to school all the time. But anyone who knows me would be laughing at me right now and calling me privileged, and rightly so. …

A few years ago, I was hit by a golf ball. Today we are hit by the lack of water that flows to them while it is missing from the taps of ordinary men. — I had met my friend António on one of those random online chat sites. …