So great when new folks show up at the blog. Kathleen came in with the latest showings of Phil’s Camino down in Chico, California. Thank you Kathleen, we welcome you.
Maybe it is time again to explain the basics of the Caminoheads blog for our newcomers. Every once in a while I feel the need to do this. We, the Caminoheads, are dedicated to living the principles that we learned on the Camino, the “Way”. This means taking care of ourselves but it also means taking care of each other. I like to use the word buoy for that. We are here to buoy each other up.
This all springs from the notion, “When you get to Santiago your Camino begins.” I have spent time with this, sat with it, puzzled over it. My conclusion is that our time spent in Spain on the trail was participation in a training program. We were having such a good time that we didn’t maybe realize that. But as we floated across Spain on good vibes and sweat we were learning the way to be.
So when we get to the end of the trail, the trail suddenly begins? Or when we have done the work, there is more work? Or just when we can’t take another step there is another journey? Well, apparently so. For my only conclusion to this is that we are supposed to go back to where we came from and find a way to live that life that we have practiced, as best we can.
So, here we are Kathleen, this is our noble cause. We are here, in our small place on the planet “still walking”. Still ministering to ourselves and those around us, just like we learned. It’s no different really. And hopefully our get together here, our blog, helps this happen. Welcome.
Let’s review our love, Felipe.
Buenos dias, Felipe. And welcome Kathleen.
I so appreciate your granting equal emphasis to care for oneself and care for others. One lesson I learned for myself while walking and drinking cafe con leche was that those in my life who seemed to lack the ability to love God’s creation also were unable to love themselves. That internal process needs to come first, at whatever point one is on the life journey. Once I was able to love myself it was easier – no, possible – to love others. Now it has become impossible to not love others.
I am grateful for your blog which is a tiny reflection of your own walk,
Love and peace to all the Caminoheads family.
Thank you Ron ~ yes, I agree with you. And the notion that, “Now it has become impossible to not love others.” Annie and I call it,”we can’t help ourselves”. You are constant companion, Felipe.
Perfect reminder as the new year begins.
Karin ~ yes, I am struggling personally at this time to get myself stabilized with the transition. We are off to a new page and how do we regard that? Thanks for being here, Felipe.x
Yes, Let’s review! How about a walk and tapas this afternoon?
A perfect review, really. We just keep walking.
So grateful you’re our neighbor and so grateful for the blog. Earlier you mentioned something about will it carry on after you’re gone. Well, I’ve never been a blogger, but you can bet I would do my part!
Carry on. Gratitudes. Gracias, gracias, gracias
Can I go and walk and have tapas with you all? oh my, how I treasure the days I spent around you all!
Gracias! Gracias! Gracias!
Cris
Cris ~ thank you for being so in love. We finally had occasion to walk and tapa together yesterday. I seems that it has been a month since we were last together. You are in our thoughts and prayers Dear. Felipe.x
Yes Dana ~ let us not forget gratitude in all this. Thank you. Good walk yesterday! That got me back on track, back in the saddle. I have been doing a good job of floundering lately trying to get my personal new year going. You are totally welcome to be part of Caminoheads blog, well you already are. Felipe.x
Hola, Felipe!
Full disclosure here; I copied and forwarded to several Camino Connected Ones your third and fourth paragraphs of today’s discourse, They were stellar! A couple of these will be repeating Caminos later this year and really appreciated the depth of your words. As do I, who sadly won’t be back on the Way this year.
Lead on, Amigo Leader!
SF.
PFJ
Thanks Skipper for your kind words. Just when I think my writing barrel is empty, I find something. I’m blessed. And best wishes to those friends who will be off to Spain to walk. Looking forward to spring, Pilgrim Farmer Felipe.
Felipe,
This post of today possibly qualifies within my “Top Ten” explanations about what meant to be in the Camino. I think it is true that we do not realize all that happens in the Camino when we are there… yet, whatever is that happens, it is a one-way deal, you cannot go back and be as you used to be. And I always find interesting that we go to the km 0… There is no better way to say that the Camino starts when you arrived. The other thing too is that the Km 0 is in the “end of the world”… Somehow the poetry of that also seems to say that after getting there, we are entering a new world too.
Km 0 hugs to you,
Cris
Cris ~ yes, agree with you. And we are so lucky to have found it and found a way to get there and walk. I can count on one hand things in my life that are as important to me as walking the Camino. Pilgrimage is such a blessing. Felipe.x