“Don’t you think it’s weird?”  My Rebecca came up with that yesterday.  We were talking about all the people that were going to come to walk at Phil’s Camino this summer.   We have laughed in the past about the idea that we have become a destination.  Well, yes we have.

This conversation that we were having was doing me good because I have been grappling with this for a while.  Rebecca was saying don’t you think it weird that all these folks are coming to see you.  Well, I replied that I don’t think that they are coming to see me but they are coming to see what I have discovered.  Or maybe more accurately what we have discovered.

If you are not a Caminohead maybe it is hard to put your finger on what it is.  But people that have partaken of the essence of pilgrimage know what that essence is.  They/we probably can’t put words on it but it resides in us just the same.  But it seems to be somewhat fragile and can get overwhelmed or eroded by the concerns of life in general. I think the way to look at Phil’s Camino the trail is to understand that it is a sort of laboratory for the nurturing and keeping of that flame.

This blog is part of that effort.  For three years I have been writing this journal of my journey with “The Way”.  It is not always pretty but it is definitely what it is.  It is all here somewhere.  All of this is in the neighborhood of being as long as the novel Don Quixote.    It my not have the literary value of that great work but it has value as a log of everything that has happened in three years, the ups and downs and the in betweens.

So, that is my defense to “don’t you think it’s weird?”  It’s not weird and as a matter of fact might it be the most sane thing that we are doing or will ever do.  I don’t think that is too strong.  Caminoheading along is a most positive healthy state of mind, of being.

Here is a sidebar to this.  I just heard that there was a woman visiting our neighborhood that had the ability to read the landscape and tell if good or bad things had happened in places.  She reportedly said that this stretch of road where we are located had some lingering signs of something bad that had happened in the past.   Well, OK, maybe we are here to rectify stuff like that.  We have power, we could do that.  Just a little side job.

OK, I have a walk in ten minutes, time to dress for the occasion.  Love you most certainly, Felipe.