A Thank you note...

Perdoem-me meus amigos no Brasil, mas hoje o post é em inglês!

So I have always loved photos! Big deal! Who doesn’t??

Pictures are a wonderful way to make your present last forever! Who does not want that? 

(Ok, if it's not a happy present, you may not! But, let's think see the glass half full here!)

Well, earlier this year I thought I could be a photographer. 

(Who, you??)

Yes, even Obama must have laughed at me! 

 I started a course, bought a camera, lenses and walked around the city looking for nice images. Images I had seen behind my lenses that would be unusual and beautiful to all. Then, I came across an add on the Roosevelt Island's local newspaper inviting people to send their pictures of the beautiful island I live on for the next year’s calendar. Naive, as I am, I sent a few of mine. One of them was printed on one of the newspaper’s weekly issue.

I got so excited about it that when they showed the pictures that had been selected for the calendar I could not notice that wonderful September 11^th picture was not mine! Motivated by a mistake, I ordered a few calendars with “my picture” to send my folks in Brazil, so they could feel a bit of my belonging to NYC… AT LAST!

To my surprise, when I got the calendars, the September picture was not  mine, - big disappointment here - but one that looked a lot like the one I had taken.

 

Knowing that in the US the customer is always well respected, I requested for a refund of those calendars, as it would make no sense that I sent them to my family 'cause none of my images had been in it.

unlike what I could expect, the story did not end in the very welcome return of the calendars I had mistakenly purchased. 

That was when Santa Dick Lutz Claus showed up! 

And also a bit of the admirable culture difference!

I got an email from the newspaper’s editor - Dick - saying he had left something for me at the building’s concierge. 

What a surprise and happiness was it when I saw my pictures printed to the 2013’s Roosevelt Island Calendar?!?!?

SPEECHLESS!

Still am!

If by any chance this was intended to be a minor Merry Christmas-Happy Holiday gift gesture; I must say Santa Claus was so lucky to have chosen this way to make me happy this year. 

Tonight I am just so proud of my pictures!!! 

And so happy to share this feeling with you all!

Dick, we have never met! However, you made me feel like I belong!

THANK YOU! So much!

May we all make people as happy as I feel now!

Merry Christmas to all! 

feLICIdade in Portuguese means happiness in English, however, in Portuguese my name is in it! ;)