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Yes, the title sounds corny but I couldn't help it. It is mango season now and over the past few months I have been in awe of all the huge, flowering mango trees all around city and country.

Once I heard that mango trees have a special sort of energy that can even replenish and cure a dying person if you hug them a certain way. I don't know whether it is true or not, but they are certainly have a particular kind of presence I can't exactly put into words. For those of you who never saw one face… Continue

Day 15 was a major detox day, both physically and emotionally. I woke up with pains all over, as if my bone were poking me from the inside out. I had been feeling a little of that for a few days already, but that day it was full-blown. Intuitively, I juiced some aloe from my herb garden, along with some cucumber. It tasted awful (well, not the taste so much, it's just that I hate that gooey texture!), but in a few minutes my body was tingling all over and I started to feel better. Afterwards I d… Continue

I had planned a short, 10 day juice feast because we will soon be traveling to Canada - I thought it would be too complicated to maintain the JF while traveling by plane, etc. Well, the 9th day arrived and I felt lost. I KNEW I would probably start binging on my favorite Brazilian foods. I KNOW I want to change and grow beyond this point. On the other hand, several things scare me. One is that I'm afraid of getting too skinny. High raw brought down to my "ideal weight", but I think I look weird… Continue

I did it! I spent a day at the local (Olinda) carnival festivities while raw and survived!!

Honestly I expected more to it. I thought old, bottled-up feelings would surface (as I've said before, my dad died right after carnival, 15 years ago), but nothing happened. It was actually a pretty bland afternoon, at least emotion-wise. Besides, although this is a situation where there are many people that are all about being happy and dancing, there are lo

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Carnival is here. It is a huge thing in Brazil – not only the samba from Rio, but so many
different sounds and rhythms, especially here in the Northeast. In fact, my
city has the largest carnival parade in the world, which gathers about 1.5
million people every year (I’ve only been to that one once or twice! Too much
of a crowd for me!! :))

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