The Spirit flies again

At last an open restaurant, with tables service and all!
For me the first since October 2020!
Suddenly something banal becomes really important.
I have now left the department of Odemira into that of Sines and the restaurants are actually open. I'm going to have an orgy!

On a different note, this morning I met a wonderful couple from Australia, David Bangma and Amelia Gill. Both lived a while in London, then decided to escape the craziness of COVID to Lisbon, then things got crazy in Lisbon and they moved for three months into this region to have the sea nearby for surfing. David is Graphic designer, Amelia works for and ad-agency and both work totally virtually although they miss the social contact of the normal working world. Apparently life in Australia is totally normal. No lock down, no masks no craziness.
I am Meeting many people here who have fled Germany, France, or Britain to come an live here near the sea while the World goes crazy. Most are working remote. One German Surfer I met is part of a technical call Center for engineering products he takes the calls from the beach. After 17:00 He is on his surf Board. There is a totally new professionell world appearing.

This morning as I marched, I philosophised about ants. Everywhere I saw endless roads of ants, Perfectly organised straight lines which I followed for tens of meters. Half of them going in one direction, the other half in the other direction. They were not carrying anything, just crawling, sometimes meeting each other for a split second and then moving on. Where were they coming from? Where were they going? What were they doing? And why?Leggi altro

Yesterday morning the ways of Carina and myself separated as she continued her route with her cousin who had come from Porto. It was a gruelling day of 30 kms on hard roads, no pavement and trucks nearly taking me with them when they passed. Sun and strong side Winds for most of the route did the rest.
As I walked, I listened to a podcast "und dann?" on Audible which looked at all aspects around the topic of "Death", from the question of "when are you actually dead" , through "fear of death" , "the suffering around death", "hospice work", "assisted suicide" in switzerland, and the general fear of disappearing which has lead to "crionics" (freezing the brain or body parts to wake them up in 200 years, then research on the brain where one tries to digitalize all the information in the brain with the idea of being able to upload information and maybe no longer even needing a body, and finally, a very philosophical part on "what is human?" , "whether death is actually an essential part of being human, on Spirituality and faith.
As I walked I reflected on my own end, on what COVID is doing with society at the moment, where society is heading, but also the opportunity for society to change itself radically.Leggi altro