Thursday, December 12, 2019

Images of 2019 - Narnia Bound

2019 - Newsletter  - Under Construction

In the begining God created the heavens and the earth.  
Gen. 1:1

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Surely the dilemma is plain.  Either there is significance in the whole process of things as well as in human activity, or there is no significance in human activity itself.  It is an idle dream that we can withdraw the human soul, as a mere epiphenomenon, from a universe of idiotic force, and yet hope, after that, to find for her some faubourg where she can keep a mock court in exile.  You cannot have it both ways.  If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone. Embrace either alternative, and you are free of the personal heresy."
C.S.Lewis

 Meaning is the being of all that is created, and even of our selfhood and the nature even of our selfhood. H. Dooyeweerd


Merry Christmas and Happy New 2020


On December 17 we celebrated 42 years of a Happy and Blessed Marriage with God´s Help

"For a good wife contains so many persons in herself. What is Adriana not to me? She is my daughter and my mother, my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign; and always, holding all these in solution, my trusty comrade, friend, shipmate fellow-soldier. My mistress; but at the same time all that any man friend (and I have good ones) has ever been to me. ... Solomon calls his bride Sister. Could a woman be a complete wife unless, for a moment, in one particular mood, a man felt almost inclined to call her Brother?" C.S. Lewis
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Narnia Lamp Post
  


We started 2019 Visiting Opa and Oma in Apeldoorn - The Netherlands
Photos in Chronological Order
We Thank God for such Exemple of Life
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis

Apeldoorn - Netherlands
2019


At TU - Eindhoven - The Netherlands

“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
― C. S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

Back in Sao Paulo


Back at Narnia
It all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood.
Or with a picture of a little house in tropical Atlantic woods


Itajubá


Our own produce

New Post-Grad Course

Morning View



Our Companions 


Hard Work at Narnia



Ruth Visiting






Intervarsity - ABU Group Camping



Second Narnia Gate

Come in by the gold gates or not at all, Take of my fruit for others or forbear, For those who steal or those who climb my wall Shall find their heart's desire and find despair.
The Magician´s Nephew



A misty day


The Art of Wasp´s Houses



Air Show in Itajubá



Introduction to Engineering
The Unfolding of New Engineering Talents
A Former Upperclass Student Lecturing to the Freshmen

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own' or one's 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one's real life is a phantom of one's imagination.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

New Life all the time


The New Portal to the Narnia Woods



Unifei - Protesting Education Cuts

“A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.”
― C. S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

The Winter Spring Season


Wild Life around us


Pri, Daniel, Zeke, Eliel and Naomi Visiting






Goodbye to Santa Rosa after 6 years of Work









The Original Resting Spot in Narnia


 My Lovely Wife of 42 years (Vacation in Tiradentes)


Full Spring at Narnia




Trip to Atlanta - IEEE PES GM
Adrita, Ruth, Bella, Benny, Lilly and Mia - Joined us



Back to Sao Paulo


Back in Recife after 10 Years




Meeting with Friends from University Time
Electrical Engineering Class of 1975




Buying Santa Cruz Jersey


With Family






Looking at Old Pictures


Botanic Garden in Recife



Back at Narnia



In Rio de Janeiro for work



Grand children, Family - Friends

Zeke

Zeke, Eliel and friend


Zeke, Eliel, Naomi and friends
Lamenting the death of a rabbit -in Angola


Angola Medical Work - Priscila e Daniel


Valeska and Alexandra



Benny

Bella, Benny, lilly, Mia and Ruth



Benny and Mia


Bella, Lilly and Dog

Lilly


More to be Included

New Readings
“How one´s range of interests grows! Do you find a sort of double process going on with relation to books—that while the number of subjects one wants to read is increasing, the number of books on each which you find worth reading steadily decreases.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis



Botanic Garden - Rio de Janeiro



Copacabana


Yellow Ipe Time


Ibitipoca



Back in Narnia



Images of Creation

Niteroi


Petropolis
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.
Is. 9:2


Itajubá



Narnia Gate

Flowers, Fruits and Friends

Vila Betel

Meetings with Friends

Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

ABU - Intervarsity


Clinica - Integração


Summer Evening at Narnia

Flowers and Fruits





Clinica - Santa Rosa





Vila Betel

Friends from UNIFEI


Our latest companions - Brazilian Bees (without stinger) Jatai



Happy 2020


We wish you all Health in 2020, and above all  Joy / Inner Peace
“Joy in the sense of: the unsatisfied desire which itself is more desirable than any other satisfaction”
C.S. Lewis

Flowers of Narnia - July 17 / 2022

 “Look at the lilies and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully ...