{"id":1338,"date":"2026-09-11T00:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.luanna-lima.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2026-09-11T00:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:42:05","slug":"bem-vindos-ao-db","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.luanna-lima.com\/en\/bem-vindos-ao-db\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming an Abandoned Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, my name is Luanna, and this is my new blog!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you mean, \u201cnew\u201d? Well\u2026 the title of this post isn\u2019t random. For a long time now, I\u2019ve been trying to bring back a time when everything seemed simpler. I think the last post I wrote on my old blog was sometime back in 2017, right after a trip to Toronto that completely changed my life. At the time, I had no idea just how much that decision to create a little \u201csilly\u201d website would actually be the first step toward that change. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lua de Outubro (October Moon) is one of the most vivid memories I have from my teenage years. I was around 16 when I created it, following an idea from a friend I met on the late, great Orkut (yes, it\u2019s been that long)\u2026 The goal? To talk about photography. But we didn\u2019t stick to just one topic. The more I discovered the world of blogging, the more things I wanted to talk about.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through the blog, I discovered who I wanted to be, what I was passionate about, possible career paths, and, I dare say, a lot about the world itself. As a very introverted person, I had always struggled to make friends, leave the house, or have a life that felt less lonely, but LDO changed that. I met other bloggers from my city who let me do photoshoots with\/of them. We created projects that gave purpose to my weeks, to my life, and everything became\u2026 more fun!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"translation-block\">But life happens; the blogging world started to fade, everyone moved to YouTube, and to this day I still don\u2019t have enough confidence to make videos. After all, I discovered my love for writing, and I\u2019m the kind of person who doesn\u2019t handle change well. Yes, it\u2019s a little ironic to say that when the blog itself disappeared because I decided to move to another country, alone, without speaking English fluently. Soon, immigrant life, full-time film school, a pandemic, and so many other things slowly took over the space the blog used to occupy, and keeping everything under control became impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to save the details of all that for another post, though. More than ten years later, \u201cLua de Outubro\u201d no longer felt like the right name. Still, I really wanted to revisit some of my old posts and bring them over here. Despite everything, I\u2019ve changed, but not completely. A decade is an incredibly long time, and now, with thirty just around the corner, I believe I\u2019ve lived enough to have become a different person, even if the essence remains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so, today, you meet Dear Beeary: a mix of \u201cdear diary\u201d and \u201choneybee,\u201d a nickname given to me by someone who was part of my life during those years away and who no longer is. But no, this blog isn\u2019t dedicated to that person in any way. I\u2019m simply trying to build, once again, a place where I enjoy being. I want to share everything I love, what it\u2019s like to live so far from home, random thoughts and stories, and, most importantly, try to reclaim my love for photography and writing - the things that allowed me to start all of this in the first place. I don\u2019t know exactly what this space will become. Maybe a diary, maybe a photo album, maybe a place to keep memories safe before they disappear. But I\u2019m certain that this is where I\u2019m meant to be.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">So:\n\nHere\u2019s to new beginnings, and <em>welcome to <strong>Dear Beeary<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope you find a little sweetness here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">Read more about this in my <a href=\"https:\/\/dearbeeary.substack.com\" target=\"_self\">Substack<\/a> reflection <a href=\"https:\/\/dearbeeary.substack.com\/p\/on-starting-over\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dearbeeary.substack.com\/p\/on-starting-over\" target=\"_self\">On starting over<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you mean, \u201cnew\u201d? Well\u2026 the title of this post isn\u2019t random. 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