Last evening Rebecca had a Caminoheads Theatre Night. It wasn’t quite a Belly Laugh Theatre Night but good none the less. She showed “A Man Named Pearl”. She and I have seen this three times a least. It is about this black guy that lives in a small city in South Carolina. He is a hard worker, church going family guy but he has this passion for making topiary sculpture. That’s bushes that are shaped in imaginative ways. Well, that sounds slightly interesting but you will have to see where this leads him, his family and the small city of Bishopville.
On the same movie vein I was talking to the nurses about how my near sixty chemo treatments were getting to feel like the movie Ground Hog Day. I was amazed how few of them had seen it. So, if you haven’t, this is a good one to watch.
And then to review, as Kelly would say, The Way is still one to catch if you haven’t already. I saw it after Spain and it was all the more better. And there is Walking the Camino – Six Ways to Santiago with Our Annie in it. This is also known as the Camino Documentary informally and we sometimes call it that here on the blog.
That’s about all the great news that I can bring you for the moment. Off to do stuff, the best to you, Felipe.
Hello Phil,
I just listened to the Camino Podcast and am so inspired by you! I walked the Camino Frances in fall 2015 and as a way to deal with post-Camino blues, I created my own virtual Camino. Didn’t know anyone else had done something similar. Mine is different than yours, not a set route, but I am tracking my miles walked and reading my journal for where I was on the Camino at that mileage and contemplating what I was experiencing and how it relates to now. It’s been good. The specific reason I am contacting you is that a friend and I will be visiting Vashon Island in May and I am wondering if I can connect with you when I am there. I would love to come walk the Vashon Camino with you. In any case, I wish you abundance of all you dream of! Perigrino love to you.
Nan ~ yes please come visit us here at Raven Ranch. I will email you with contact info. A couple of things on reentry which can be tough. One, the harder it is the more significant the Camino experience. So be thankful for your current challenge. Two, I experienced a form of schizophrenia where I had a inner romantic that I had to deal with. Three, for me the key to recovery was when I realized that I had a new fundamental way of working, a new ground. When I first got back I tried to take pieces of stuff I learned in Spain and tried to plug them into my old life. But that didn’t work at all. I finally realized that the opposite was true. I had a whole new way of thinking and I had to take stuff from my old life and plug those into my new way. Does that make sense? Is that helpful?
This blog is the place where we talk about this kind of stuff. Look back in my archives to about September 5, 2014 and look for a post entitled “Warning”. Also in September are the ten Pigrim Beatitudes which could be profitable for you. I got back home in the last week of August so these posts are my reentry feelings. Check it out.
OK, standby for an email with additional info. The best to you, Felipe.