E aí vai quase um ano e meio que larguei a minha vida, dita, normal. Este já é o terceiro caderninho que uso. A minha liberdade já não é algo que viva como se fosse acabar em breve. É uma constante que me dá muita paz.
Aqui na Tailândia a vida é fácil mas de Portugal continuam a vir responsabilidades financeiras. Normalmente más notícias. Antigamente comprar uma casa era um investimento, agora é sentir o banco, o estado, a empresa do condomínio e canalhas semelhantes sugarem-te constantemente.Sair do centro do Wanakaset foi um alívio. O calor, os mosquitos e não ter nada para fazer eram insuportáveis. Pensei muito que era um sítio muito bonito, de um grande senhor mas algo estava muito errado pois eu estava a passar mal.
Finalmente, numa quinta autêntica de tailandeses (algo que nunca encontrei em Portugal, só hippies), percbi que aqui preocuparam-se com a circulação do vento criando lagos e não deixando a floresta muito densa do lado de onde vem o vento no verão e deixando a floresta densificar-se do lado em que vem o vento no Inverno. Uma família simples em que o casal gosta de cozinhar e o miúdo de ver desenhos animados.
Hoje o Chai (o pai) mostrou-me o jardim onde tem cerca de 100 espécies de ervas, plantas e árvores de que se come alguma coisa. O pequeno almoço foi uma panóplia de flores, ervas, folhas jovens, e ovos caseiros numa salada, acompanhada com uma espécie de peixinhos da horta. Foi o melhor pequeno-almoço que tive desde que cheguei à Tailândia. A cada grafada.. (e lá vai um pirilampo... ) sentia a minha saúde a aumentar.
A quantidade de tubérculos que têm aqui é abismal. Carradas de açafrão pelo qual os alternativos pagam balúrdios, loções para picadas, repelentes e gelado de taro são os produtos naturais que descobri fazerem, mas há mais. São activos na comunidade apoiam os vizinhos a mudarem para produzirem produtos orgânicos. Hoje andámos a distribuir açafrão e uma espécie de gengibre em duas aldeias numa espécie de empréstimo. Têm um ano para crescer o açafrão e dois para o gengibre. Espécies incentivadas pelo estado.
Aqui perto há uma floresta com elefantes e tigres selvagens. Os primeiros costumam aparecer por aqui.
And it's been almost a year and a half since I left my life, called, normal. This is already the third notebook I use. My freedom is no longer something that I live like it's going to end soon. It's a constant that gives me much peace.
Here in Thailand life is easy but some financial responsibilities keep coming from Portugal. Usually bad news. Formerly buying a home was an investment, but now it's feeling the bank, the state, the condominium management company and similar scoundrels sucking you all the time. To leave the center of the Wanakaset was a relief. The heat, the mosquitos and having nothing to do were unbearable. I thought it was a very beautiful place, a great sir, but something was very wrong because I was having a hard time there.
Finally, in an authentic Thai farm (something I've never found in Portugal, only hippies), I noticed that here they worried about the movement of the wind creating lakes and not leaving the forest very dense on the side where the wind comes in the summer and leaving the forest densify itself on the side where the wind comes in the winter. A simple family in which the couple likes to cook and the kid likes to watch cartoons.
Today Chai (the father) showed me the garden where there are about 100 species of herbs, plants and trees that always offer something to eat. The breakfast was a panoply of flowers, herbs, young leaves, and homemade eggs in a salad, accompanied with a kind of "Peixinhos da Horta". It was the best breakfast I have had since I arrived in Thailand. Each time I took some food into my mouth... (and there goes a firefly ...) I felt my health increasing.
The amount of tubers they have here is abysmal. Loads of turmeric for which the alternatives pay a lot, bite lotions, repellents and taro ice cream are the natural products I discovered they make, but there are more. They are active in the community and they support the neighbors to change to organic products. Today we are distributing turmeric and a kind of ginger in two villages in a sort of loan. They have one year to grow the turmeric and two for the ginger. Species encouraged by the state.
Nearby there is a forest with elephants and wild tigers. The first ones usually show up here.
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Here in Thailand life is easy but some financial responsibilities keep coming from Portugal. Usually bad news. Formerly buying a home was an investment, but now it's feeling the bank, the state, the condominium management company and similar scoundrels sucking you all the time. To leave the center of the Wanakaset was a relief. The heat, the mosquitos and having nothing to do were unbearable. I thought it was a very beautiful place, a great sir, but something was very wrong because I was having a hard time there.
Finally, in an authentic Thai farm (something I've never found in Portugal, only hippies), I noticed that here they worried about the movement of the wind creating lakes and not leaving the forest very dense on the side where the wind comes in the summer and leaving the forest densify itself on the side where the wind comes in the winter. A simple family in which the couple likes to cook and the kid likes to watch cartoons.
Today Chai (the father) showed me the garden where there are about 100 species of herbs, plants and trees that always offer something to eat. The breakfast was a panoply of flowers, herbs, young leaves, and homemade eggs in a salad, accompanied with a kind of "Peixinhos da Horta". It was the best breakfast I have had since I arrived in Thailand. Each time I took some food into my mouth... (and there goes a firefly ...) I felt my health increasing.
The amount of tubers they have here is abysmal. Loads of turmeric for which the alternatives pay a lot, bite lotions, repellents and taro ice cream are the natural products I discovered they make, but there are more. They are active in the community and they support the neighbors to change to organic products. Today we are distributing turmeric and a kind of ginger in two villages in a sort of loan. They have one year to grow the turmeric and two for the ginger. Species encouraged by the state.
Nearby there is a forest with elephants and wild tigers. The first ones usually show up here.
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