Our "Everyday Meal"

There are 100 co-workers in Tamera, members of the community, and 30 children, permanently. In addition to this, about 30 to 200 guests (for different periods of time). In winter, during the rainy season, you will find just a few guests, but in the summer, during the Summer University, the place gathers more than 300 visitors from all over the world. Guests are also washing dishes……. Without employees, without people from outside, everything is organized and it works perfectly, without syncope. Of course, most of them are German people - this...

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Cloning Needed

I wish I could clone myself, only for a while, to have duplicates and let them put on paper what I am living, what I am thinking about and what do I believe, to run on the hills and post my thinking, to transmit them, because only here on top I have internet connection, to charge my photo camera, then my laptop, then my phone, even if I have forgotten my charger, to download my pictures, to select them, to upload them, while I am all ears…… for you to understand what I did this morning - I don’t have the two points key - 5.40 wake up, 6.20 sunrise...

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The Morning, The World

In the morning, the world seems not so great, I mumble myself and I don’t understand how could I've been thinking that such a way of living would be proper for me! The showers are on the next hill. Meaning that: I get dressed, I get down the hill, pass through the valley and climb another hill! And back! I take my towel, be careful to have all my bio cosmetic products, even my toothpaste and I leave, grumbling in my boots... On my way back I am strongly convinced that the best way to start your day is with a walk of 800 m on the hills! I will...

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Tamera, At First Sight

At first sight, Tamera is a sort of enormous camp…… up on green hills, a sort of oasis in the middle of a golden area affected by desertification, caravans, tents, unpretentious buildings, spread along some paths or bohemian dusty roads. One must give away the idea of a resort or a conventional village, because here is where we see how to start from zero and build only what really is essential. Including the oasis, in the same desert spreading over...

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The Road to Tamera, Portugal

It is six o’clock in the morning and I'm enjoying the airport feeling and a hot tea…… even though I have only slept for two hours and a half, I am pretty sure that I haven’t packed everything I need, I am smiling: it feels like I have received the ticket to Paradise…………….. I adore airports, I like the bustle of sleepy faces, experienced suitcases, bags full of their own importance, finally recognized, the mix of careless flip flops, shoes and boots, dreams, joy, business trips and holydays carefully planned passing through the same gate…………………....

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First Thoughts

There’s one more day left for me…..a day to decide what should I pack in order to try a new way of living……..Does it sound dramatically or exciting? Definitely, inciting for me! Change is a word that I adore. Just like my fellows, otherwise. My biggest "drama" - until now - is about the rubber boots: which ones to choose? the designer boots, 300 Euro or the Made in China boots, 10 Euro only. I thought the answer was obvious, but the arguments made me thinking. But I will share with you the entire dilemma some other time. Where am I going? I wish...

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