Mind shifting ...

These days in Tavira pass pleasantly enough, the mind in transition between the adventure past, the adventures ahead ... daily gentle exercise ... around town ... yesterday along to Barril and a chance encounter with Andre for more warm conversation and clarification ... his field not psychodrama but trauma ... his wife not Dora but Dory ... though still unsure of the spelling ...

Jon, not John, reveals his role as a writer and shares his magazine, Reconnect, along with his dream of community in Andalusia. .. and identification with Jewishness and homosexuality ... reflecting on the power of these identities, to what extent they define the person, neither feature apparent in the initial conversation where common themes of community and spiritual growth were resonating strongly ...

This morning the legs fancied following the river upstream on quiet roads through orange groves ... an hour North to a river crossing, an hour return ... another long conversation with Joana ... then John, who arrived yesterday ... his Brazilian wife unable to live with him in England, thanks to immigration rules in that benighted land ... other EU countries would allow her to stay with her EU English husband ... for now, anyway ... the conversation turns progressive ... more and more folks waking up it seems ...

Another full day in Tavira before wandering across to Faro, maybe some walking ... and the evening flight ...