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My afternoons of aromas. In the day there is always a moment where thoughts soften, where we are in a kind of pause and want to kind of sit and look inside ourselves. I have my living room where I like to sit in my rocking chair and chat with a friend who has come home. I have had my rocking chair since I was young, my mother had a wicker set and she liked to sit in the chair with a headboard and I loved my rocking chair. Even for studying I always looked for the rocking chair. Over the years my siblings and I had our favorite chairs and I always ended up loving my rocking chair, over the years I bought a rocking chair for a sister-in-law but she never received it. My brother said they didn't have room for another piece of furniture in their house, so I had to keep the rocking chair.

My mother eventually gave me one of the rocking chairs when I went to my university and he passed away when I finished my university studies. The rocking chairs were at home and when my father died I fixed them up and kept them. I bought another wicker rocking chair and now I have three rocking chairs at home. One in my living room, one in the living room inside the house and one in the kitchen. Wherever they are at home if I feel like sitting down I reach for my rocking chairs. But in the afternoons as I was telling you it is my time for green tea, flavored coffee or hot chocolate. It all depends on my guest, I usually ask them what drink they would like and then I prepare it and we sit here in my little space, breathing in the smell of my plants. Surrounded entirely by Ferns, Anthurium, Caladium, Oxalis Triangularis Clover, terrestrial Orchid like Spathoglottis Plicata and the ground sown plants that give me scent to the garden, fig tree and aromatic plants in pots outside in the garden. This scent is so appreciated. Everyone who comes in just says they can't appreciate the dominant scent and so it is, because the scent of mint is mixed with the basil, rosemary, saint mary, citronella and they all make a natural air freshener very much appreciated in my mornings and in my evenings of sharing.

It's so nice to share a moment of conversation, but in these times we have to take care of ourselves. We are not safe yet, the Omicron strain has arrived in my city and it is acting quickly, but there are many people who think that there is a lot of manipulation by the government and that such a disease is a lie. I think that here it is not considered as important as in other countries and the hospitals are so under-served that I have heard of cases of people who have been sent back from the health center because they are suspected of having covid and the doctors there do not have the resources. At least this was the case of my brother personally, and I have heard of many others. But the fact is that we must continue to take care of ourselves until the variants decrease in aggressiveness and we can go out with less restrictive measures. In the meantime I am still in my living room with a friend. Enjoying a tasty drink and a pleasant conversation in the middle of a tropical jungle scented environment. Thanks to all of you my continuous readers and sponsors. I apologize because I have been interacting very little with you due to personal technical problems. As soon as my normality is restored I will continue with all of you in your publications and giving my usual support.

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