Banding Together

Woke after disturbed night for both of us to even more disturbing news.

But, a beautiful day, sunshine distilling the mist on cobwebs, and Jaime's sheep and lambs filling the air with the sound of their bells and baas. Will put a few extras in case you need beauty to look at today (and take down later).

A late trip to Badajoz to get a new router for Mike to finish the skirting boards, as the motor on the old one packed in. And got a rather lovely ceiling fan and light for the middle room.

Instead of Capon today, a quote from a review by Bezalel Stern of the American book I'm currently reading, Independence Day, by Richard Ford:
The book contains ideas worth thinking about, and seriously. True independence, for Ford, consists, it seems to me at least, of actually being able to understand why people who are different from yourself – perhaps incredibly so – do what they do. In being able to work with them, and to learn from them as well...
People who have practically nothing in common banding together to be independent. As counterproductive as it sounds, it’s what made this country free. Real independence, Ford posits, is all about making connections. Independence is with people.


The best thing we can do now is to make connections, try to understand, work together, love those who think so differently to ourselves. A divided nation cannot stand.