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Working with Max and a view. 😍 My fellow freelancer and her dog invited me to her coworking spot and I'm making podcast cover art while sipping free coffee. Good Monday to all!

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It might have been rainy most of our time there but Porto was also full of colorful azulejos (tiles) and delicious food and port wine! It's definitely a place for culinary, architectural, and historical exploration. If you're ever there, take a walking tour with Caoimhín, who calls his tours company "Irish Guy in Porto." He was full of excellent information and even better humor! 😄 https://www.guruwalk.com/walks/31417-irish-guy-in-porto-tour

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Visiting Belem meant two things to me: Pastéis de Belem (for the original pastel de nata) and the Monument to the Discoveries. The sculpture itself is amazing - striking and beautiful. Built in 1940, though, it was raised to glorify a particular view of the voyages of "Discovery" from a European perspective and ignored the exploitation and destruction that followed. The exhibit inside may have done more to moderate the view glorified in the 1940s in stone. It certainly seems like Portuguese culture is starting to reckon more broadly with its role in colonial problems. It's a mixed heritage. They are justifiably proud of their navigational attainments during the Era of Exploration. A historian on a podcast I listened to argues the Portuguese helped usher in the Scientific Revolution as they ignored or contradicted the ancients' cosmography in order to venture further from the Mediterranean along the coast of Africa. No matter what we make of historical currents, learning and wrestling with them is worth the effort.

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Lisbon went by in a blur of beautiful and delicious things. Eating seafood and pastel de nata, listening to Fado over dinner, and wandering the Alfama district - it was all fantastic. I especially appreciated the friendly people. Obrigada, Lisboa!

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🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃 I'm wearing holiday-appropriate colors and a smokey eye. It's not dressing up, but I'm still feeling myself. Hope you have a good day!💃

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Kicking it in my sweater, completed on the train to the Netherlands. Learned a lot and I've already started knitting another! 😆 #nofrillssweater #petiteknits

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Sipping and knitting the final sleeve of my sweater at my favorite bar. Good Sunday afternoon!

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Art Nouveau Reaction Series 3: For "Cause of Death," please write "complications from CrossFit Open WOD 20.1." But what a way to go - with a barbell in my hands. 😁