Musings

To ponder is to work by lamplight, to burn the midnight oil searching for meaning. Here I offer no easy answers (the blue pill), but my honest attempt to confront reality (the red pill), be it about the silence of deafness or the noise of daily life.

This is "Gópi"!!!

After working like crazy for six months, I decided that a new job wouldn't hurt me, and I've been using LinkedIn to delude and disappoint myself, because my…

A Philosophical and Chemical Question…

I put the (pre-baked!) lasagna in the oven and decided to wash the dishes while I waited. Since the kitchen light was off, some mosquitoes decided I would make a good lunch and…

The Joy of the Worst Carioca (Rio de Janeiro native)

Geovane Souza, known as the Worst Carioca (Rio de Janeiro native), smiling and wearing a beret and black coat, next to the stylized text "LONG LIVE THE COLD!". The image celebrates the Rio de Janeiro winter and the energy savings achieved by not having air conditioning.

Discover why cold weather is the Worst Carioca's favorite season. A humorous poem about soups, mothballs, and saving money on the electricity bill without air conditioning.

Providence II

No one should remember the tantrum—only that word, TANTRUM, something very childish, to describe it—that I committed on August 14, 2015… I think only she herself would remember…

Providence

I spent a lot of time not participating in campaigns and going far beyond simply not tithing, but clarifying, according to the Bible, that this does not apply to Gentiles and…

Fifty Shades of…

Geovane Souza in a close-up black and white shot showing an intense pain reaction during nerve treatment.

That hot Monday, she called me over. She looked me up and down and ordered me to take off my shoes. I had no idea what was coming next…

Other Elucubrations

A modified representation of a Pitfall game scenario featuring alligators and an excess of scorpions, metaphorically representing the distinction between enemies and obstacles in life.

Enemies and Obstacles

I started thinking about enemies and obstacles today, while doing 120 squats at the gym, and I realized that this was the most difficult exercise in my set... and that made me...

Geovane Souza with his family on the Supervia train experiencing the Flow of Kindness in Rio de Janeiro.

Flow of Kindness

Yesterday, in the infernal summer heat of Rio de Janeiro, a train vendor gave me a lesson in generosity that I didn't expect. Amidst the physical pain of the noise amplified by the...

Providence

I spent a lot of time not participating in campaigns, going far beyond simply not tithing, but clarifying, according to the Bible, that this does not apply to Gentiles and...

Contribu(rr)int… Cargo!

Has your CPF (Brazilian taxpayer ID) been blocked by the Federal Revenue Service even though you are exempt from taxes? Read the true story of how the system punishes those who work and discover the trap of "burdened taxpayers." One...

Rio 2016: Olympic Qualification

No institutional crisis, but plenty of truth. I open the Pandora's box of my behind-the-scenes experiences at Rio 2016 with a personal perspective, averse to "political correctness," and filled with never-before-seen images....