Our Camino included the fun associated with power cuts as the Iberian peninsula lost it's electricity for a few hours. I'm sure there are theories but sometimes you just leave them, parked at the door, wander to Isla and walk around the headland again, this time, the tide is out.
Wow, I thought when I saw why nobody was riding the surf on this beach yesterday afternoon, it's a bed of nails.
It really is breathtaking indeed. The coastal erosion is stunning. The distance between high tide and low tide is about 200 to 300 metres.
The battle between the land and the sea.
The humans side with the land and try to hold back the sea.
Nature is a wee bit bigger than that and I think the Greek gods can teach us a few things. You might not believe in blood sacrifices to these gods but the power of nature is as self evident now as back then. If we can think Socrates and all those other duffers had a story to tell them you have to listen to their gods. In economics we talk about everything gliding into equilibrium in the long run. We ignore it at our peril and I loved thinking as we strolled.
Nature will find equilibrium, it's in its nature. It's evolution and as all those Darwin fans will know species evolve and disappear. We may be missing a trick by counting them as they become extinct. That's a bean counter talking too. We do measure a bit too much but rarely before we cut. We just keep measuring like it's the job, it's the purpose, but it's not. It's why billionaires continue when it's pointless acquiring any more beans. You just need a bigger bean counting machine. Like Carnegie they get it nearer death and try to build that legacy.
Create a myth about themselves to make them feel better about dying as their own wee battle with nature comes as quick as the surfers splash.
The truth is they could've cured poverty, homelessness, produced free power, even sorted AIDS back in the day not wait until it fitted the corporate schedule that concludes with death. Aw, wha's like us, gie few.....
Spiking on the rocks in a sandy cove. I'm lucky as I sort of got it as I turned 30. Stu and I sat in a farm house in France and said retire by 40. Caitlin had just been born so the pressure was on.
When the seagulls follow the trawlers....it takes me back.... .. There's so much of life can pass you by but then again not everyone wants the same things and plenty still want other people's things. I'm more a sharer, I like to give my stuff away. I like a museum especially a free one. It teaches what value really is.
That's the game.
Value, that's a great word. What is value. Diamonds on the souls of your feet? A house to live in or a money pit to pay for. A company with a FTSE valuation or the company of good people.
The museum in Burgos dedicated to Human Evolution is such a beautiful if head spinning place.
I've waxed lyrical about my ancestors from Atapuerca for years. I feel such a warmth towards them. 28000 years ago Neanderthals finally gave way to Homo sapiens who couldn't help it, they just had to keep expanding.
It was a peaceful extinction by all accounts. A bit of interbreeding according to our DNA, or maybe I've made that up. I love how it's a wall of people that just keep coming. The surge into exploiting resources isn't new, we've been doing it for years.
Were like the four tops, we just can't ourselves.
I took loads of pictures but by the end my brain was positively frying. We sneaked off to the peaceful CAB balcony on the other side of San Lorenzo.
We spent 2 hours and it's absolutely wonderful. I'll go back again and pay next time. Being retired Jackie and I got in for free.
She certainly hadn't age as well as austro.....podicus.....
It's just bewildering for my chemo brain to consume.
It's all about the economics of evolution, or should I say the natural evolution of the monetary system. Finite resources mean we can't all win unless we work together. Not easy when slowly our whole world has moved it's attention to winners.
I've moaned about Olympic programmes targeting the medal winners only. Football that refuses to acknowledge the necessity for feeder leagues to prosper for the people. I'm not a huge rugby fan but that's another sport where natural selection is everything and participating is neglected. It used to be a naive concept of mine that team games introduced concepts of being aware of strengths and weaknesses. Knowing you need a little help from your friends and one person is not an island. Specialists exist so they can trade with other specialists. We all have a role to play. Well not if you change the rules and play a new game.
Thankfully there are still fun runs of togetherness, ramblers, community minded people but it's getting tougher. As more "Glazer'esque" solutions grip the global sporting world we are told what to like and the push back gets harder. How can you atop.likimg your team just because they change the model. Buying glory not building it. The Man united tale is a salutary lesson of how bad it can get. A global brand of the kings new clothes.
Each generation often rebels against the last so how can we prevent this version of cultural aka coastal erosion.
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