Katherine Ruch | Still Point of the Turning World

Dreaming the Right Dreams...for ourselves and our children

Posted on October 25, 2013

Years ago when I was teaching at an international school in Brazil I heard yelling in the apartment on the first floor. I ran down to find one of the other teachers standing in the hallway wrapped in a towel yelling that her shower-head was on fire. I ran in to turn off the water (or electricity)--I was use to this sort of occurrence having been raised in this world where water and electricity seemed to be combined in useful ways. (Other more developed countries have not yet advanced to such discoveries).

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"You need privacy...with me."

Posted on October 12, 2013

One of the sanctifying aspects of a large family for me is the constant infringement on my physical space. I should not still expect personal space after growing up as I did. My teenage life was spent riding the public buses in Sao Paulo, Brazil (the second largest city in the world), which were filled 100 percent beyond capacity with people hanging out of the door and the bus listing to one side. I would be at the right height to have my head thrust into an available armpit, as all the people standing in the aisles had their arms straight up, in surrender to the thieves of privacy and human decency.

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