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Another mini dispatch from Portugal.

Bom dia! I am still in Portugal, believe it or not. I am excited to write about it when I’m back. For now, I’ll say that I feel like I needed this as much as food or water, and it’s quietly healing me, filling up my cup, deepening my relationship, all the things we yearn for almost all of the time when we’re stuck in the mud of our mundane daily lives.

I am… finally, finally… starting to feel ready to come “home”— wherever that is these days. (If coming home didn’t include going to work, that is.) At the very least, I am itching to try the passion fruit pie at the new and improved (?) Kellogg’s Diner.

(Don’t be fooled by the stunning hotel views, I am not living in a five star resort for a month— there has been plenty of time spent with my boyfriend’s family in “real” Portugal, away from the tourist hullabaloo and American English, though sadly quite close to the wildfires. Fingers crossed for rain!)

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