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Life is full of rhythms.
Daily rhythms: we wake up, eat breakfast, brush teeth. Weekly rhythms: workdays and weekends. Yearly and lifetime rhythms as the seasons change, as we change.
One joy of these last two years, of bouncing between Brazil and America, is getting to try on different rhythms in different countries. Deciding how we shape our days and weeks. Alternating cadences of shopping trips and social visits, the pitter-patter of trains on tracks.
It can be a struggle at times, learning new rhythms. We move and suddenly we're a half-beat ahead or a half-beat behind everyone else—it's hard to tell which. This isn't always bad.
Syncopation adds flavor.
In the fall, Calvin will go to kindergarten. That will have its own patterns. For now, we're working out the rhythms of summer and our life here. We're making new friends, feeling how we fit into the interlocking parts of each other's routines.
Did you hear about the group of musicians who work at Panda Express?
They're a wok band.
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