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Clambering over Rocks Sitting one Sunday at a bar near the Lonja I was reminded about former times when I would clamber onto the rock-built breakwater that protects Moraira Town from the open sea.... the fact that I was looking towards the inspiring reality of the timeless Ifach underlined the moment! Every Sunday I would walk carefully along the breakwater, not just taking a light-hearted, adventurous stroll but also performing a kind of ‘ritual act’ to acknowledge the Presence of Mother Nature, She who cannot/will not be ignored. Each step I took along the uneven surface of the breakwater was a calculated risk. If I put one foot wrong I could easily coggle or twist my ankle, fall over and do myself serious injury. If I misjudged any of the narrow gaps between the rocks I could end up with my foot wedged in an awkwardlyangled space, unable to extricate myself! When I found a comparatively level crouching or sitting area there came a feeling of relief! Now I would be able to better enjoy the panoramic vistas and think great thoughts.... able to feel at one with the world around me! Go back 50 years to the early 1970’s - we (my wife, our 4 pre-teens children and I) were sun-bathing and relaxing in the summer heat on Moraira’s Ampola Beach (no official lifeguard look-out stand in those days - only a basic beach bar). The 4 were clambering over the jagged rocks that still fringe the Castello promontory today, jumping into the shallow waters, clambering back up onto the rocks, jumping and splashing into the waters time and time again with inexhaustible energy! Just watching the children was enough to send my wife and I into a drowsy siesta.... for a while at least! Go back even earlier (the late 1960’s) - a deserted Loch in the Scottish Highlands, calm weather, picnic hamper waiting, our children clambering over a jumble of rocks and boulders at water’s edge, their grandfather (my father) with us on that occasion, all looking forward to a simple alfresco picnic. The water was in no hurry and lapped gently onto the shore, lightly blessing mossy rocks and boulders.... at that moment, at least! FEBRUARY <strong>2022</strong> | 21 by John David Moorhouse Now go back even further in time (the 1950’s - 65 years ago) - I was courting my future wife, headover-heels in love with her, thinking wedding bells and looking forward eagerly to starting a family! As an only child I was determined to create a family. Not that my childhood years had been unusually challenging or dysfunctional (although my mother had died when I was only 5 years old).... in fact those young years (looking back some 70 years from the present) had been exciting, challenging and full of colour! The thought of Eunice producing a family of “happy, healthy wee bairns” thrilled me enormously. In 1956 and 1957 I was invited to join Eunice’s family for two summer holidays on the Isle of Arran in Scotland.... two unforgettable holidays (full of love-filled moments) that remain clear in my mind to this day! On one occasion (1957), led by my future inlaws, 6 of us went climbing up one of the many challenging, mountainous slopes that inland Arran offers to energetic folks. We clambered upwards, negotiating rocky outcrops, wild heather tangles, tricky little streams, etc.. It was a lot of fun as we helped each other up the steep terrain! Actually, we never reached “the top” - there were more than enough “thrills” in the clambering towards it! Why ‘clamber’ if you can use an uncomplicated ‘easy route’, e.g., a well-paved road.... there are so many ‘easy routes’ these days! But, oftentimes, the ‘easy route’ can be uninteresting, not to say boring! Let’s face it, we need unsettling challenges in our lives (from time to time!), circumstances that cut across our ‘normal routines’, that drag/push us into new and invigorating activities, making us react creatively! Does my “clamber over the rocks’ fascination reflect my primeval antecedents? Go back no further than when each of us is born.... we emerge into a strange, uncomfortable (?) world.... we have no choice but to ‘clamber forward’ as best we may.... and the ‘process’ appears to be lifelong!
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