A few grey, damp days in August not unusual hereabouts ... it freshens up the greenery and certainly doesn't stop the daily walks ... great timing for budding blackberry crop, elderberry too, ready for winter vitC boosting, protecting against the indoor loving germs arriving every year. ..
Heat wave came and went yesterday they say ... just the one day, but quite warm enough at 15-20, who needs 30+? The grass is surely not greener on the other side if it's parched from drought!
So, the glass is half-full as prescribed, handy as helpful governments play games with holiday abroad plans ... keep us hopeful, as long as we comply. .. with ludicrous instructions to stay in Fear ostensibly of some virus, not especially dangerous compared to others our bodies have adapted to, though just as likely to finish us off as normal winter flu, novavirus, common colds, falling downstairs, heart failure, cancer ... the list goes on ... mortality the enemy these days it seems!
To be honest, dear reader(s), this time has been a Great Teacher for Wear & Dao the blog ... after all it started some six years or so ago, though sharing introspection across one lifetime of the author and his many parts, as each step along a unique path led to fascinating views including equanimity, much prized ... and that chapter on no-self found in Guadiaro, a gentle liberation, still held lightly ... and rudely interrupted by a call to action as a great injustice arose in the relative space and time in which the entity was playing.
Your Spring Camino is cancelled, they said. Who has the Power to do that? WHO'S the clue!
OK, this Retreat is congenial enough, good neighbours, growing library, Sun arriving sooner and great walks all around.
Stay indoors was the instruction in an astonishing grab for Power by a gang of scoundrels, led by a narcissist, principle-free, quoting Ancient Greeks without living Life in any way guided by the Ethics of those Philosophers, an admirer more of Churchill, the wartime leader, deeply flawed, swiftly voted out when war was over, never trusted by working folks, his order from his time as Home Secretary during a strike of miners in South Wales to the police: Drive the rats back down their holes, echoing through the ages as warning to us all ... Johnson often quoted in similar fascistic vein against other races, classes, minority groups, take your pick ... brushed off as buffoonery but this man is not that stupid but sinister ... a powerful team with his unelected special adviser pulling strings ... a puppet master with Rasputin ways, feared by many ... and in the end seen for what he is and removed as old systems crumble ... like Ceaucescu on the balcony as that tyranny was laughed off the stage ...
Humour then one tool to tackle Fear ... clear thinking too, but that is blocked by Fear responses and all the flaws of humans, befuddled by excess love of money, status, ambition and cultivated opinions ... smart folks often the most at risk of defending self-serving positions from weakness ... not to espouse a wholly negative view of Human Nature - on the contrary ... evidence laid out in Rutger Bregman's brilliant recent book "Human Kind" inspires and educates. .. a best-seller in the shops and in Hive, your alternative to tax dodging, worker exploiting Amazon growing fatter as an essential service in the past few months ...
This too shall pass, of course and scales are falling from eyes, corrupted media ditching more ridiculous orders to salvage some credibility with a less extreme reset of whole systems worldwide, since whole systems change is called for urgently ... though How is still our choice, as WHO and other corrupted organisations belatedly admit a not unusual mortality rate, still dubious, though by no means justifying the Martial Law responses and the consequential suffering.
Which possible Future do you choose Dear Reader(s)?
I choose a Simple Life thank you ... which, come to think of it, is what I have created anyhow, the recent disturbance notwithstanding. .. Compassion, Simplicity, Patience ...the treasures of the Dao.
Time for breakfast and a walk ...
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