Sips of Cha

Sips

Savour ideas, images, reflections, and stories. Feel free to browse and get inspired.

This Year, I Surrender

This end of the year, I surrendered. For the first time in many years, I’m not rushing to please anyone — not even myself…

What a Door Handle Brought Back to Me

Today I finished a task I didn’t really have the option not to do. After completing the bathroom renovation in November, the only thing left was painting the new door...

Gabrielas of the World

In Brazil, we have the popular expression “Gabriela Syndrome,” which emerged because of the 1980s TV series Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, based on the novel by Brazilian author Jorge Amado...

Tomorrow's Day

When everything feels impossible, when every action weighs more than it should and your chest tightens as if you were carrying the whole world inside it, the wisest thing to do isn’t to fix anything — it’s...

Two Banks, One River

I grew up with my mother teaching me mysticism. She always spoke about the power of our thoughts, our words, and our actions...

Effort vs. Steadiness

Have you ever noticed how a tree grows? It never forces itself to grow; it simply maintains a continuous process of photosynthesis, deepening roots, and repeating cycles of sun and water…

Emotional Profile

This week I watched a video by Dr. Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor, explaining four emotional profiles…

Reviewing Values

One of these days, while I was writing in my journal and thinking about what I want to work on and focus on in 2026, I realized that after three years my values had changed...

Time Blindness

I’ve always had a strange relationship with time, and some time ago I learned a term that describes well the way I’ve always felt about it…

A Bitter Truth

I’m a Virgo, and as a true Virgo — detailed and observant — when I decide to unleash my surgical honesty… stand back, because the cut is precise...

A Day's Work on the Farm

My experience working on a friend’s farm made me reflect on the contrast between urban life and rural life…

Crossing the Valley of Despair

I'm going through the valley of despair and I decided to create an experiment to help me cross it...