Classic Casarabonela autumn dayz

How can one not be cheered walking though the streets of Casarabonela early in the morning, the sun shining people smiling and everyone Holas and Adio´s y buenos dias just lifts the spirits, looking over the mountains down to the med where it sparkles golden from the rising sun and mists dissipate in the valleys - it inspires gratitude and awe.......
...despite still not getting my psu - looks like it has gone a wandering in the Spanish postal system :( and I have so many pics I want to upload along with a much necessary update on my web site Andalucia Naturally links to be added etc and I have fallen down the ratings in Google search - hey ho must be a reason I cannot as yet fathom out
anyway it is the kinda day to go and crochet out on the terrace and let the mind wander well that is if I can as I upped the ante at the gym this morning and now my arms feel like they belong to someone else LOL
oh yeah was sad to read that attitudes are not improving in good old Dumfries where a group of Poles chatting away in a bar in their own language were approached by some "thug" who told them if they were living here then speak the language - yeah right - glad the local Spanish don´t have the same attitude when there is a group of Brits all sitting chatting in their own language and if anyone has had the pleasure of hearing the raw dialect of a real Doonhamer - they will know it is fairly guttural and indecipherable to the average English speaker - ok my little rant for the day :)Gonna take a leaf out of this little guy´s book LOL

Moving Through Darkness - The Places We GoIn life,
most of us want things to go to the places we have envisioned ourselves going. We have plans and visions, some of them divinely inspired, that we want to see through to completion. We want to be happy, successful, and healthy, all of which are perfectly natural and perfectly human. So when life takes us to places we didn’t consciously want to go, we often feel as if something has gone wrong, or we must have made a mistake somewhere along the line, or any number of other disheartening possibilities. This is just life’s way of taking us to a place we need to go for reasons that go deeper than our own ability to reason. These hard knocks and trials are designed to shed light on our unconscious workings and deepen our experience of reality.Often it takes something major to wake us up, to shake us loose from our ego’s grip as it struggles to maintain an illusion of control. It is loss of control more than anything else that humbles us and enables us to see the big picture. It reminds us that the key to the universe lies in what we do not know, and what we do know is a small fraction of the great mystery in which we live. This awareness softens and lightens us, as we release our resistance to what is. Another gift gleaned from going to these seemingly undesirable places is that, in our response to difficulty, we can see all the patterns and unresolved emotional baggage that stand in the way of our unconditional joyfulness. Joy exists within us independently of whether things go our way or not. And when we don’t feel it, we can trust that we will find it if we are willing to surrender to the situation, moving through it as we move through our difficult feelings.
We can take our inspiration from any fairy tale that finds its central character lost in a dark wood, frightened and alone. We know that the journey through the wood provides its own kind of beauty and richness. On the other side, we will emerge transformed, lighter and brighter, braver and more confident for having moved through that darkness.