Heat of Summer

I thought this article in the Olive Press was well worth sharing!!

The People’s Republic of Che Gordillo

Despite 25 per cent of Andalucians being unemployed Gordillo is adamant his town of 3,000 people have no such job worries.

Speaking proudly – appropriately in front of a portrait of Che Guevara that adorns his office – the mayor declares: “The truth is there is nobody unemployed in this town.

“If people lose their jobs they can come to the town hall where we will assign them jobs.

“Be it re-building pavements or laying roads we can give them work that will not only provide them with money but will also improve the area.

“Also, season permitting, there is often work up on the co-operative for those who suddenly find themselves jobless.”

Hundreds of local people are currently working for the co-operative, each being guaranteed 47 euros for a six and a half hour day.

And it is this much-vaunted co-operative that has been heralded as a shining light for towns and cities across the world struggling against the global slowdown.

Called El Humoso, it is located eight kilometres outside of the town and is a crucial source of work for many residents.

It took 12 years of political fighting, however, for the mayor to finally wrestle the right to cultivate the land for his people from the power of an infamous wealthy landowner, the Duke of Infantado.

Nowadays people even come from nearby towns such as Ecija to work as part of the team.

And from the Aquarius Papers

Learning how to transmute negativity in an environment is a worthy work, but it can leave you exhausted. Then it's time to sit still and get/be quiet.

Be diplomatic with an argumentative person, but don't expect them to be different than they are. Some people are just contrary......
Usually the solution to problems comes through creative imagination, not griping about what's wrong in an echo chamber.
Surrender to the love you feel when with loved ones, since you just don't know if this is the last time you'll see each other in this world. And sometimes the loved ones you meet for the first time in this life will instantly be closer to you than those you've known for decades.
For those trying to give birth to a new life, personality, career, job, relationship, or any other new way of experiencing your Being, remember that in any pregnancy the water must break before the contractions begin that will result in a form emerging from within you. Just keep breathing, riding the waves of intensifying and subsiding contractions until you see the form of what you've delivered. Then smile, since a whole new life begins!

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Well guys while you are drowning in Scotland we are still scorchio scorchio LOL
The Cultural week kicked off on Sat night with all things African, food dancers, drummers etc. As Jason came up, supposedly to bring my wine and T-shirt, he forgot them - huh & hahaha, still good to see him and catch up.

Well all I can say is that Del & Lorna must be very sad looking down on their son - as his lies unfold - he hasn't changed since he was a kid, all his Buddhist background hasn't made so much difference sadly......I feel great sadness.......wondering what impels him to behave in such a manner......and that he will continue to leave a trail of pain behind him,
and he will continue to charm - charmers are not always the most trustworthy folks on this planet {I had one as a father and watched the chaos he oft caused while charming the "birds" off the trees, true D was a charmer too but he learnt not to use it to manipulate people}Enough we all have to walk our own path and we can make it as good for others or not.

A week to catch up before another visitor - Maria :) Yep she arrives next Monday, on her own apparently for 5 days of sun rest and relaxation, well that's easy then and the day she leaves there is another lady turning up, this lady contacted me having read the Green Handbook, so after she has finished a course at Cortigo Romero in Orgiva she is heading down here and we will take it from there.

Zoe has an old friend coming over in Oct and he is going to stay here and although I will back in Scotland he arrives just before I leave and leaves a day or so after I return, so Stinkers will have company and if Squidge is OK with him she can stay put otherwise she can go and stay with Leigh - Leigh's Bday today :) Had a peek at friend and looks a cool dude - Thanks Zoe xx

OK time to get things done before heat becomes too much
Brightest Blessings :)

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