Since summer is here and rather hot, an early brisk walk before breakfast to greet the sun, up the track and back alongside the polo fields ... the season is picking up, horses arriving from around the world by road, sea and air ... grounds immaculately groomed ... villas opened for the season (and this one promoted as a bargain albeit with work required ) ...
A tin of mousse for toothless Poppy, toast and tea for me ... then down to the beach before the sunbathers emerge ... a barefoot plodge in the surf from surreal Sotogrande to Punta de Europa's Corbusieresque twin towers and back ... conditioning the feet for future adventures ... nicely warmed up for a plunge into the sea ... some lazy breast stroking, then home for reading, writing, lunching in the shade ...
Days pass peacefully ...skin browns gradually ... friends arrive intermittently ... news filters through of troubled times ... change afoot ... things not always as they seem ... equanimity at the Casa for now ... this Beautiful New World that our hearts know is possible does require some energetic, synergistic input ...
The distance does assist in seeing through the devious divisive tricks of old power players, trying to push us into barmy binary choices ... smart, sophisticated, progressive pro- EU versus stupid, ignorant, xenophobic anti- EU ... old thinking ... the Earth is tired of it ... the people smell a rat ... the rich themselves and all their hangers on, much in evidence around the polo fields and golf courses, sense this separation no longer serves ... the time is not for tinkering with a system stinking as it falls apart ... or being drawn into redundant reductionism ...
So, if energy flows where attention goes (and it does ), keeping all the divisive dramas in peripheral vision, while focusing on the better world we want is worth a try ... eh?
Mr Louis Armstrong had it right all these years ago...
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