(photo Henna Volker)
Our moon is is waxing crescent, 28% illumination.
The twin topics of smells and dreams that has come along has sparked a lot of interest here at Caminoheads. Check out the Comments. All kinds of interesting stories have popped up.
Well, smells and dreams are both forms of communication. So that is what we are really talking about. They both are ways that information is being passed along. It seems also true that both are underutilized and under understood. Under understood?
Somehow this goes along with another topic and that is the synchronization that we all experienced on the Camino. Things just seemed to have continually lined up for our benefit. We would say that it was St James or St James Again. That is adequate really but maybe we could also look at it that we were connected in new and different ways that worked for our benefit. We were somehow connected better because maybe we were communicating on additional channels that we haven’t been familiar with using. Smells and dreams could be part of this and probably there is more to it, maybe much more.
That is all a guess, a hunch, that something is going on that is important to us and our understanding. Where else are you going to read about such offbeat news than on an offbeat blog like this, hey?
Well I am off. I have plenty to do yet on Jen’s doors for her art studio. And I need to scurry to get ready for Wiley’s little birthday party this evening after work.
smelling you, dreaming about you loves, Felipé.
¡Hola Felipe!
You’ve hit on a common thread that is woven into the Camino experience most of us can relate to: smells and dreams. So many times we were taught The Way by the surrounding beauty, the fragrent air, the silence guiding our thoughts and resulting dreams with our mentor/guide Saint James. He helped us arrive.
There is a good movie, Jermiah Johnson, taken from a great book, Mountain Men, where a man sets out on a jouney to the west to escape the maddness and stench of “civilization”. Most of his journey is a self-taught learning experience until he meets a wise bear hunter who helps him to improve all of his senses and survive the journey. Years later the two men meet up on the trail. Bear Claw Chris says to Jeremiah: “Greetings Pilgrim. I’ve been hearing you for a week and smelling you for two.” He helped Jeremiah arrive.
So maybe we’ll all reach our destination if we remember to “keep our noses to the wind and our eyes on the skyline.”
Diego
Diego ~ always good to hear from you! I just stamped a Phil’s Camino passport on Sunday for a couple from Boulder, CO. Guests have been few and far between here but we are open. I like your story about JJ. Hope to see you somewhere on the trail! Felipé.
I LOVE this discussion of smells. So under rated. But I’ll tell you that doctors use smells to diagnose. I had a wound infection many years ago. My doctor took the dressing off my wound, sniffed it and said decisively, “Pseudomonas!” And so it was.
As far as dreams, since I was the messenger of that dream, I’ll confess that I’ve been pondering the meaning of it as well. I feel sort of like the mail carrier who has opened someone else’s letter, read it and realized there was something in it for them too.
Thanks for your blog, dear Phil.
Debra ~ thanks for the encouragement on writing about the smells. I have been sitting on that idea for years, thought it was too weird. I should relax, I’m in a weird crowd!
I am honored that you are the messenger. Did you come up with anything on the meaning? I have some ideas. Maybe I will blog on it Saturday or Sunday. It strikes me as such a tidy communication, no complications. OK, off I go, Felipé.x