An ode to the remarkable…. and a Batizado

When an individual comes to a foreign country, adapts to that country better than people who have lived there for more than 20 years, uses her love and her passion as a tool to bring a magnificent group of people together, who, in due time, become a single core unit, seem to breathe, laugh, and live together as a family, creating a kind of energy emanating love that is felt beyond the Roda, beyond Capoeira, beyond the class, beyond the music, and this energy becomes an everyday element in their everyday lives, to such a point that they feel that they’re missing something if they don’t have it for a single day, and she manages to keep this together while managing her life and her work… we have to appreciate and value the prominence, ability and character of this person.

She defied a few rules to have a Batizado done here, and went through with it although she had her doubts and uncertainties, making her human, and hence, all the more extraordinary for what she has achieved here.

I do not put much importance to a higher chord, but the Batizado week, the people that we met, the games we had, the energy that was felt, and the experience we had was beyond words can describe.

At times, it could be described as attainment of a higher spiritual level.  

I know that I’m not the only one who would agree that she has given us an incredibly lot in the past year.

Too much… 

And for that, I thank you Ana.

Axé!