A few terms...

//Mindfulness:  the ability to maintain a moment-by-moment sense of acceptance and awareness of our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and environment.  Letting the past and the future inform the present, but not control it.

//Slow Living: is the art of curating a life built around meaning, quality, and fulfillment. It is a voluntary simplification of how we live each day to create a deeper and wider sense of well being.  

The name borboleta was given to me by my grandmother Edith Maria D’Almada Remedios when I was a teenager.  It means butterfly in Portuguese.  My restlessness reminded my grandmother of how a butterfly jumps from flower to flower.   She would tenderly tap my nose and say “borboleta” as I kissed her and ran out the door to my next thing.