Sum-sum-summertime

Well I”m back in Altea, being a mum. I’m reading a wonderful book by an Argentinian child psychopedagologist called Laura Gutman. She runs a centre in Buenos Aires called Crianza and has written two books about child-rearing and motherhood. An enchanting work that puts into words many of the emotions that I have been living in the past four months. I don’t think that her books have yet been translated into English yet.

Yesterday was Canada Day – my home country celebrated 140 years of nationhood. Oh, Canada.

I have been thinking about many things but failing to find time to actually write much of it down. It’s very time-consuming being a mum. I’m still on the conscious capitalism thing – wondering about making a fairer world without preaching anything like communism. I’m just not convinced about communism, especially it’s negation of spirituality. It was conceived of in a time when the church was still all-powerful and thus there was a need for an anti-church doctrine. But when you stop to think that both Yoga and vegetarianism were banned in Soviet Russia because they are both ‘philosophies’ that are not ‘communist philosophy’, you see where the peoples’ connection with the sacred and the spirit was denied. I believe that people need faith – that even if you don’t believe in God or Atman or Allah, you have faith in Capitalism, pacifism, education, the goodness of man etc. Without faith there is no reason to go on, no reason to care for humans, animals or the earth. So I am trying to think of a system whereby socialism and faith can live together happily to produce happy people. I think I need to read Huxley’s “Island” again…