18 Aug: Herald. In 2011, Selma Carvalho sat with Thomas Joaquim Lobo, then 102 years old and listened to him talk about his life. Thomas was born in 1909 in the small village of Parra. Nothing auspicious marked his birth which foretold of the incredible journey which lay ahead. As the 20th century opened, Goa was economically devastated. Whether a son of the soil or born into privilege, almost every family was discreetly impoverished, sustained only by an unwavering faith in God. "Money was very, very tight," Thomas volunteers candidly. Thomas, who spent much of his adult life in Kenya, passed away in June 2013, a few weeks short of his 104th birthday. http://bit.ly/17AmQQF For a six minute video clip in which he (and his daughter) talk about life in Goa, moving to Bombay in the 1920s and living in remote districts of Kenya, http://bit.ly/IZNDhX