67th was a big one since Putin launched a war on my birthday, February 24. So I declared war on Putin, with words my only sphere of competence in combat against Russian useful idiots.
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We live Jurmala, Latvia from May to November and Porto when Latvia is cold.--EU snowbirds. Our daughter moved here 15 months ago, we visited and stayed. Portugal wasn't even on our radar before, which shows how life can have beautiful unexpected pivots. So now I revive the Carnation Revolution summer of '74 Portuguese I learned in Lisbon at 19.
Beachfront basketball 🏀 with teenagers and kids in their 20s and 30s is very rejuvenating. The Portuguese have an accepting and welcoming culture of kindness that I'm grateful to have discovered at this stage of life, having been too young to notice it in 1974.
Unlike many Americans they don't blame foreigners for a far more acute cost of living and housing affordability crisis that really is driven in part by an avalanche of wealthy Golden Visa, EU and UK expats.
Part of aging is understanding the fragility of stability.