Hello, Vítor this is mommy trying to talk to you about our biggest dreams and desires, but also about our fears! Since you were 4 years old you understood that mommy had a big dream which is living in California and making my company having success to make our world a better place to live.
I think I dreamed about being in California for 4 years and a half. I had a playlist with California kinds of music, San Francisco, California dreaming, California girl, Hotel California. All those pieces of music are well known for you. We sang that in our living room in Brazil. I meditated about that every day, wishing that my company could succeed in its vision of an unlimited conscious mind where people love sports, arts, and nature!
And then, surprisingly last year I knew that your daddy would be able to have excellent work in California and could realize my dream. We celebrated a lot his achievement the dream was so big that we celebrated each victory of his 4-month application process.
The day I discovered I was coming here (California) I perfectly remember. Your daddy called me from São Paulo and we just arrived home from school, I smiled and said Vítor I wanna tell you something very special, with a happiness that I could not explain I told you: We are moving to California!!! Are you gonna love that? You look at me and said Wow! You must be happy, so I am happy too.
And it was like that, you learned to have the beautiful belief that when we have a big dream it just realized in someway by itself. I still believe in that!
We arrived in San Francisco on 20 February 2020, at 2 pm by coincidence (the tickets were not our free choice) a day that numerologists said it opened great opportunities in our lives! A day like that will happen again just at 03.30.3030 :).
We came before everything was ready in Brazil, but we could not lose this opportunity! We spend our first month in a temporary apartment in Fulton St.
Everything seemed perfect! Your public school has a high-quality grade and we found a beautiful place near Ocean Beach and the Golden Gate Park to live. It couldn't be better since I always dreamed about surfing whenever possible as part of my routine.
The good surprises didn't stop. Presidio is like a magic forest, Golden Gate Park is the most beautiful and perfect natural urban park I have seen in my life. Ocean Beach has the best sunsets and waves and inspiring people doing surf or kitesurfing almost every day. I started to do yoga on the Golden Gate Park and meditate in front of a beautiful waterfall!
We went together to the South Bay area and the beaches there are astonishing! People in San Francisco love surf, kayaking, being in nature, running. By that time mommy had realized that she loves to take pictures of colorful flowers. Sonoma Coast and Bodega bay left me without words. The blue shining water, the beautiful rocks, the birds, the flowers. Paradise, my intuition was correct, California is a real dream by itself.
A shark in our living room :) phto by Bia Bastos
But, then, on the week we moved to our new home the Coronavirus pandemic started :( your school was closed, your daddy works at home, I didn't have time either to formally open my company here nor to make new friends! You also Vítor had just 2 weeks of school! When you started to remember the name of some of your new friends your school was closed. Our new home has not yet many things since our furniture didn't come from Brazil yet, it is like we are camping at home.
It has more than 30 days now since the last time you played with another kid. Your grandparents live in Brazil where the economic recession and the health concerns are even bigger. Mommy has you, your daddy, a very poor Internet connection, no friends yet here but many of them in Brazil.
Some friends started to call me this week saying that they don't support the quarantine imposed. One of them was crying very much. And me? I started to have fear, with our family and friends' health, especially their state of mind.
With you? We have been trying to keep the imagination, creativity, and happiness that you as a child, my son passes to me, you illuminate my life a little bit every single day, you are the only person who makes me smile and remember that life must have little moments of peace and hope. But most of all you, with your 6-year-old age, remember me that yes, the California dreaming has started in our lives and that yes it worths believe and achieving our dreams.
What I wish to you today is imagination and creativity at home! That you can have breakfast with giant pandas in our kitchen, playing with sharks in the living room! That you keep your energy and good vibes during this temporary challenging time and what about the future? I wish you being dirty playing with your friends on the natural park, learning surf and make the ocean part of your daily life, playing with your grandpa and grandma when they visit us soon, traveling to the park of huge trees, learning to ski or just see and play with the snow for the first time in your life! I wish in the future more playgrounds and friends at school.
I wish you that you fully live the California Dreaming!