Soap opera

This mini soap opera at the Tavira Pousada de Juventude continues, as core cast stays put awhile ... drama more real for Diana, Joana, Paolo and Carlos, who guard the inmates as best they can ... perhaps the younger customers, the Juventude in the title, are livelier and more challenging than the current cast, mostly pensioners ... though being children of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius we have our rebellious moments ... perhaps wandering about far from home is proof of that ...

Cees starts early with the philosophy, musing on the importance of unconditional love in personal development ... Harald follows up at breakfast with an extract from his current reading "The Power of Now" ... these different forms of love a general topic ... Universal Love, the Ground of Being, Tao or whatever we name it, being accepted conceptually at least ... though living in harmony with it and avoiding the trap of trying to describe it perhaps a bigger challenge ...

Since yesterday's grey sky and occasional sharp showers are replaced by sunshine and light cloud, a decent walk before this afternoon's xray is in order ... Fuseta is the destination, with return trains at 11.55 and 13.15 ... so, a brisk trip, more or less non-stop, on mostly sandy tracks, stretches the legs and tops up the vitamin D ... all before lunch ...

The visit to the radiology place is a cultural experience of its own ... joining waiting rooms with locals, wondering what conditions folks were investigating ... some looking worried, of course ... anyway the picture was taken and a disc provided for the dentist to peruse ... another appointment needed before deciding next steps ... and Santiago starting to call ...