Keep moving

After Friday's expedition to Vila Real, yesterday was more restful ... mooching around town, a short stroll to Santa Luzia ... partly moving the body, partly seeking convivial spots to study the 12 Rules for Life ... all very entertaining and instructive, though quiet and comfortable spots are not so easy to find ... dorm residents have their own rhythm and cleaners too ...

Spectacular thunder passes in the night ... forecast suggests more today, though no sign so far ... early walk to Santa Luzia, a chapter to consider, along to Barril, and back along the beach in warm sunshine, fresh breeze, one or two dark clouds wondering whether to turn rainy, the ferry back to Quatro Aguas and lunch at an Indian restaurant, one of many in town ...

Jordan Peterson's Rules are quite quirky, hooks for essays really ... Rule 8 is clear enough: Tell the Truth - or at least don't Lie ... leading to this insightful passage, quoted at length for your consideration: "If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself. That does not only mean that you suppress who you are, although it also means that. It means that so much of what you could be will never be forced by necessity to come forward. This is a biological truth, as well as a conceptual truth. When you explore boldly, when you voluntarily confronypt the unknown, you gather information and build your renewed self out of that information. That is the conceptual element. However, researchers have recently discovered that new genes in the central nervous system turn themselves on when an organism is placed (or places itself) in a new situation. These genes code for new proteins. These proteins sre the building blocks for new structures in the brain. This means that a lot of you is still nascent, in the most physical of senses, and will not be called forth by stasis. You have to say something, go somewhere and do things to get turned on. And, if not ... you remain incomplete, and life is too hard for anyone incomplete."
There is no citation for the research, though the writer is otherwise assiduous in this matter ...

Thanks for filling the blog space with such inspiring information ... hopefully copyright infringement will be overlooked this time. It seems highly improbable that JP or any of his friends are reading Wear and Dao anyway ...

As for the dorm, Ivan has found a winter let to give him more privacy ... Bernardo and Thomas, the Portuguese chaps are here for a tennis tournament and very considerate ...