Duda Makes Things

I just finished my first book this month, September 2023. This month I only did a rereading. I read the book "The Solitaire Mystery" by Jostein Gaarder in Portuguese ( the translation in Portuguese is O dia do Curinga as we can see in the picture of the ebook). I felt like I was reading for the first time, I had some sparkling memories but did not remember the whole book, it was not vivid in my memory.  I really enjoyed reading this book. It was good because the author spoke about some existential questions and made me reflect on them. I wrote about the book in Portuguese on  https://ursaletrada.medium.com/  because I am not so sure that I could speak of it here in English.  There I didn't speak so deeply, because I don't know if the people will enjoy reading spoilers, but I really want to talk about the book.  I read it when I was 15 years old, in 2008! Really long time ago. It was different to read again, now I have read many more different things and philosop...

I completed 30 days of writing, every single day. Not at the same hour every day but with constancy. I had to write in my native language, Portuguese, I think it is because I have thoughts in Portuguese, my inner voice is in this language, and I want to make it simple. I do this writing thing as a therapeutic moment. I didn't think about what I wanted to write before, I just put the pen on the paper and gave my brain the relief to just write. I tried to keep doing this without restrictions like talking about only one specific theme, or how I would write, grammatically, and things like that. I just have one condition and it is about how much I need to write, maximum and minimum, and this depends on the notebook. For example, in this notebook, I do 2 sheets or 4 pages per day, sometimes it is not enough to free my mind but I try not to pass this limit because it is easy to lose how much time I spend with my thoughts.  I have been writing since the pandemic situation, but not with con...

I started to do a par of knitting socks with circular needles for the first time! I started doing one single foot at a time. And, I could finished that single sock if I had left the perfectionism behind me. I said that because I undid parts of the socks 3 times by now, and I lost some stitches and it was so frustrating. It makes me sad. I thought: Why am I still doing this? Why just not start from the beginning?  If you never knit, I will say that when you lose a stitch or have to undo some part of your work, is the worst! Putting the stitches again in the needle for me is horrible, I feel like I will not finish the thing that I am doing, because of my mistakes.  But mistakes are just mistakes, I am very mad at myself because I couldn't see a mistake in my work. It is too hard for me, just to move forward and continue doing the work, and embrace the mistake.  Sometimes, I want not to be so rude to me. I just want to enjoy the work and keep doing it. But every time I am no...

Hello, How are you?  Welcome to my little space on the internet! I am creating this space to share what I am doing.  And to respond to the question: What things? Because Duda is making things , right?  At the moment the things are knitting, crocheting, cross stitching, embroidery, and some reviewing books, movies, and series.  I wish I could discuss better about it. I created this space hosted in Blogspot because I try many others and always return to my old blogger. So, I really like this platform.  I want to do the layout by myself in the future but I think it will be a far moment from this post. At this moment I will just use one of the standard themes.  About English, I am not a native speaker so, I am creating this space to practice my English too, because this language makes the access to information more accessible and I have a desire to meet other people from other countries. I have the idea to create some little videos too. So, wish me luck! I real...