Dear Caminoheads,

I got an email today from William, our trusty Canadian Bureau Chief… if you do not know William by now, let me tell you, he was born being an explorer, and adventurer, a pilgrim, a boy-scout, a nature lover and one of the people with more attention to the detail I know… Of course I do not know William since he was born, but I don’t think I am mistaken with this description… We will ask him to write about his story one of these days… his move from Scotland to the west of Canada when I think he was in his late teenager years, is pretty amazing… and his life story includes also not only having met our Phil, but also Prince Philip…

William’s email intended to call my attention to the fact that his place -Calgary- had the same temperatures as my place -Buenos Aires-, only that his place have it in negative numbers, and mine in positive numbers… which translated to temperature readings, his place is “below zero” and mine is “above zero”…

My contribution to this observation William made, is that we humans, seem to be ok living in environments within a range of temperatures at least 72 Celsius as today, once we adapt our lives to it;  however, our internal organic being cannot cope once the temperature increases more than 3 Celsius… And then, we think we are the strongest being in the planet… but when compared to flowers, plants, trees, insects, animals… they are the real thrivers, the strong ones, they are the ones who can be under zero for months and bloom in the spring… I cannot help thinking in which sort of extremes we humans live in… but the delivery of a newborn sounds like an example… on one extreme, there is pain and effort, and on the other side, there is joy and wonderment and awe at the arrival of a newborn…

I wonder where is that we have to be able to expand our range, our comfort zone…

Food for thought loves,

Cris