I woke from my dreams a few minutes ago thinking about a place called Attitude. Was it Attitude, Washington? Was it a place or a state of mind? I know there is Zig Zag, Oregon and Talent, Oregon, which has a great Polish restaurant I have heard. Then I thought maybe Our Jennifer could open an Attitude B & B. Can we go to a place and pick up a state of mind?
Then I randomly picked up the local Northwest Catholic magazine that had run the article back in March about me and my pilgrimage and read a little article about local pilgrimage. About places to go without going half way around the world. Are there opportunities all over?
“As Pope Emertius Benedict XVI said in 2010, “To go on pilgrimage really means to step out of ourselves in order to encounter God where he has revealed himself, where his grace has shone with particular splendor and produced rich fruits of conversion and holiness amoung those who believe.” (October 2015 edition)
Yup, just thinkin, love you, Felipe.
Been praying for you Felipe. You sounded kind of down on your last post, ‘Good News and Bad News.’ A pre-screening of Phil’s Camino is playing in the L.A. area tomorrow night and I’m so bummed that I’ll miss it. My Camino is done and I fly back to L.A. tomorrow from Paris. Hope you felt our prayers as we walked out Camino.
– Jennifer xo
Thank you for checking in JenniferXO ~ yes, a Camino over. My mind clatters with reentry, reentry, reentry. It is a rich fertile time if not overwhelming. Well I’m preaching to the choir. We would like to have your musings if possible when you have a chance.
No, I wasn’t really down but exhausted is the word. It seems it takes so much energy to step outside of the day to day routine. Now getting back I have to catch up. Gee wiz (sp?).
Anyway, yes the documentary is done. Quite an accomplishment! I have only seen little clips. Well, you will get another chance to see it somewhere. This is only the beginning of promotions.
Hope to meet you at some point and until then keep in touch. Really it is youall writing in on the comments that add the real spice to this blog. We will continue walking, right? Love, Felipe.
I wonder if ‘stepping out of ourselves (to discover…)’ Is that thing about “choosing to notice;” deciding that the stuff to notice is the stuff of meaning and connection– the miracles, in my universe of understanding– the coincidences that aren’t, but are mainfestitions of the connections and connectivity that is there, stoked with meaning, should we orient our view and focus to see it.
I’m reminded of looking for elfin saddle mushrooms. They’re black, they’re grey and they look exactly like nothing else. If one hadn’t been looking for the unexpected — they just seem to show up in the woods and edges and even in urban places– and if one wasn’t used to looking for them, one could miss them for life. But, I showed a dear friend what they are and where they were.. and soon enough he found little fields of them– lbs of them at once. At his feet. Unnoticed until then– and never unnoticed again. (Ok, it’s Phil, who’s taught us so much about noticing and embracing meaning in the unexpected). We talked about that learned, mindful, intentional decision to find, recognize and embrace connections and meanings that matter in the Big Picture– and I saw how I want to discover where my epiphanies may evolve into shared dicoveries and shared meaning, somehow. I’ve been the recipient — via this blog, via conversations — and for that I am grateful. Now what? Now what? How to navigate?, to figure it out?– to figure out the personal niche of somehow developing and having more than enough. Inside. I learned and remembered, in the process of a few hours’ conversation, that there isn’t a formula, or path or template or ‘best practices’ that fit everybody. It’s a challenge and discovery process– an exploration into unknown territory the way we uniquely are fitted to explore unknown territory. I also saw, realized, and delighted in the shared understanding that, for me, there’s the possibility for a way of being in that process that is just like my most joyful way of being in other things– the way of being in an exploration and in discovery within the most mundane of challenges — that has always brought the most authentic joy, be it solving a how-to-repair-it problem or a how-to-communicate problem or a how-to-make-art problem.
This may not make sense outside of my own head and experience, and if it’s too random and vague, I apologize. But with Phil alongside me in the silent mountain roads and trails and campgrounds in the Olympics I think we have – and I know I have– explored and discovered more of the place on our personal maps where we want to go– and something of how to get there.
Thanks, Buddy– doesn’t get any better than that.
Steve ~ so great to hangout with you these last few days. We hiked and hunted and in between had time to talk. Your comment on the situation was superb and I wish that I could reply in kind and quantity at this time. Just have to say that we need to get together more often. Felipe.
I’m up late with last minute details for tomorrow’s Sneak Peek Rough Cut Screening and Fundraising Celebration! Is that a long enough title for you! I am soooooo excited, and I feel like perhaps I have been out of touch recently. I love seeing how much I can accomplish each day as this beautiful film keeps growing and maturing. I can’t wait to show it to you, but have held off until it was presentable enough. We are almost there, Felipe! Tomorrow’s event is both a celebration with some of Phil’s Camino’s early supporters — although surely not all of them, as they are as far flung a bunch as you can find — and a chance to bring some new supporters on board. It is at the home of Maggie and Bill Lynch, two of our Executive Producers. They were so inspired by your story that they, too, crafted a Camino around their property. Hopefully we will all have time to walk together tomorrow as well as watch the film and (in your honor) eat tapas and raise a glass to you <3 I have several other fundraising events taking shape : Salt Lake City and in Northern CA. More details to come 🙂 OK, it is 1 AM and tomorrow is choir sunday, which means I will be at Agape at 6 AM so I will cut this short. Mostly, dearest Phil, I thank you for who you are. Your generosity is amazing, and I know this film will touch other people's lives the way you have touched my life. Thank you. I am so blessed, so amazed, and so grateful to be walking with you.
Annie ~ it’s all wonderful. You know there is life before Annie and then life as we know it now. Hehe, but seriously. As Steve said on our hunting trip, “We’ve rung the bell and we can’t unring it.” Meaning what? Meaning somehow we have stumbled across something important, we are well on our way down that road and ultimately not going back. So, let’s tape up the blisters and do another 20k. Love you, nice work, Felipe.