English VersionThis Saturday, with the announcement of the passing of Japanese Tomiko Itooka at the age of 116, Brazilian Inah Canabarro Lucas becomes the oldest person in the world, as she is also 116 years old, just a few days apart.

English VersionThere are few artists I have listened to more than a thousand times, among them is a Colombian artist who I have followed since the beginning of her career, since she was just starting out in my adolescence, when I was at school.

English VersionIt was a rainy Sunday in Canela, Rio Grande do Sul, when a small plane flew over the neighborhood where I live in Serra Gaúcha. @sandranunes even joked, asking where they were going in her jet, since we live near the airport and the planes take off about a kilometer away from our house.

English VersionThis year marks two hundred years of German immigration to Rio Grande do Sul, where several cities were founded by settlers who left Germany to try a new life in a territory that the Brazilian government needed to populate and there was also a need for labor for agriculture.

English VersionA long time ago, I began to set up a family tree from my family, when my maternal grandmother was still alive and remembered the name of virtually all relatives. My grandmother had six children, fourteen grandchildren and seventeen great -grandchildren, she knew everyone's name much better than me, who only found out that she had so many cousins ​​when I asked her and organized the family tree on the geni.com site.

English VersionThe purpose of this text is merely to record and attempt to express what I feel about the anguish of living with a type of limitation that to this day neither I, nor my family, friends, or professionals have identified what it is.