Lest We Forget Friends

Presents from friends in Brazil: two kilos of FRESH cashew nuts (thanks, Mirilene); handmade tea-towels (thanks, Eloa); and rapadura, block sugar - they boil up the sugar cane juice and then pour into wooden molds - it is delicious and what I used to give the women to help with breastfeeding - it's full of iron and calcium. I also got some homemade coconut oil (obrigada, Zilda), coarse maize meal to make cuscuz; coconut soap, and lots of letters - plus my gigantic old pepper grinder (obrigada, Raniela).

The presents are wonderful; but what is truly wonderful is having friends - miss you all!

Just listened to What a Wonderful World from Fluffikens journal. Worth stopping a moment, looking at her photo, and listening with all your heart to these words...