A quiet morning here after a crazy week of dramatic weather.   Have been hanging out in the shop pushing things forward there.  Have a little work to do this morning, picking out the right stain color for one.  Getting to the finishing stage of the project.  Then this afternoon am heading off to a weekend retreat.

I have been with a men’s bible study group for something like twelve years now,  that beginning seems lost in the mists of the past.  Anyway we meet once a week for study and fellowship.  There are a bunch of these classes all over Western Washington and these guys are getting together for this retreat over on Bainbridge Island.  I had coffee with Art the main guy on Friday a week ago.  He previewed our film and if we have the time I will be able to show them Phil’s Camino on one of the evenings.

This will be a good way for me to loosen up these guys.  Protestant guys tend to not get pilgrimage is my experience.  It seems their spiritual quest is more intellectual, more bookish.  Pilgrimage is mainly experiential in my thinking and, well, experience.  I talked with this group last year about my Camino and the response was luke warm.  This year I’ll let the movie do the talking.

One of the big pluses is that Art walked the Camino Frances the year after I did and maybe you remember that he took my walking sticks across Spain again.  So we are trying both him and I to introduce these guys to something new.  We here at Caminoheads all know the value of pilgrimage quite well.

Oh, that wind is picking up again, maybe this storm isn’t over.  Well whatever, we will march on.  I’ll take my iPad, somwill be blogging from Bainbridge.  Stay well, love you, Felipe.