Archive for January, 2011

The lyrics of this song are a little hazy , but the two photographs I have attached to this blog are in direct keeping with this song. Taken in a mining area near Cali ( Colombia) it shows people as well as very heavy mining equipment…in this case a bulldozer blade, being transported by railway to the mine entrance.

There are two things that make this photograph rather remarkable firstly the motorbike…as the source of locomotion…its rubber tyres being ” the grip” ….and its     250 cc motor being the power source, and secondly the tiny bearings that are the wheels used to move this enormous weight in a straight line.

I would have loved to have known the lifespan of these bearings as clearly they would probably not be within the tolerances and purposes they were designed for.

It would be correct to say that demands of the world can be overwhelming to many of us , with pressures of family relationships, work and the mere fact of earning enough to survive all of which places huge burdens upon us.

I am about to spend another 6 days in a little place called Long Beach ( not the city of Long Beach in California) but rather a small seaside beach area about an hour and a half’s drive from our home. It is deadly quiet…population about 60 but maybe half that who live there permanently. I am renovating a little cottage we own that was abandoned and basically spending all the working day doing it up majorly.

There is no TV, no phone connections, no cellphone coverage, no internet ,at the moment no shower and tiolet as I have stripped the bathroom to bare walls ( having removed rats nests etc in the wall linings).

But if it was not so quiet being by myself…it would be the nearest thing to the way it was…no shops, no public buildings (except a tiny community hall) …20 kms to the nearest town……but the most idyllic surf/ swimming beach that is totally deserted…..and beautiful birds like massive wood pigeons that sit less than 20 feet in a tree by my back door.

So I guess you say why are you finding it so hard that sounds like paradise.

Well it is because I am driven to achieve other goals, rather than sit and vegetate, and live like Hermits. We love serving and helping people who are less privileged….like those in South America and Colombia in particular.

We will most likely sell the little cottage, and use the proceeds to further these goals,as well as give some lucky person the chance to appreciate life like it once was.

I will talk again soon!!!

Lindsay Walker

14th January 2010