September Fruit

September abundance is blackberries and daily forays ensure freezer has supplies until Christmas ... mushrooms less abundant this year, though woods provide a couple of meals of tasty Blewitts ... occasional driving duties with the elders provide helpful boost for illusion of being of some use in the world ... annual agricultural Shows enable further community contact as well as visit from daughters, both thriving in their different ways ... house feels quite like home, especially with alcove bookshelves and new carpet, though legs and feet ask about another long walk ... maybe an Autumn return to the Primitivo?

Before that, in order to avoid contentment slipping into complacency, a trip to Findhorn is planned ... 9 years after Experience Week a 4 day Transformation Game is booked to round off the month ... stand by for reports, it starts Saturday, with minimal research so that expectations are minimised, a couple of extra days are booked at the Park and the recently rather underused car is looking forward to a decent run ...

Politics, domestic and international, continues to raise questions about our credulity. .. the unlikely President of the BSA is joined by another clown representing the best the DUK can offer ... whilst the teenage terror of the adult establishment, Greta the Great, continues to gain access to gatherings of the powerful in order to berate them ... credulity stretched by her trip by wind powered boat across the Atlantic (details of return yet to be announced) ... well, Shakespeare did tell us that "All the World's a Stage" and perspective suggests that he was right ... the scripts become less and less plausible, though perhaps anything is plausible to the gullible ... the game seems to be to evoke emotional reactions in the audience ... and thus make us susceptible to the hypnotic techniques which enslave us ...

On the other hand, of course, it's all real, and your correspondent has literally lost the plot ... never mind, either way equanimity prevails, there is no pain in the brain and life continues to intrigue and amuse ... perhaps transformation awaits as the dice is rolled in the weird and wonderful Findhorn Foundation at Cluny on Saturday ...