Oh, here it comes, my week off from the hospital and Super Bowl tomorrow! Yea, just have to navigating through my world of chemo side effects. So that idea of a week off is kind of relative.
Speaking of medical stuff, Pilgrim Farmer John is doing well with his recovery from surgery in Iowa City. I am shooting him tenth of a second prayers at the moment. If you want to send him a card let me know and I’ll get you the address.
Speaking of Marines, I was reading some quotes from our Secretary of Defense retired Marine Corps General “Mad Dog” Mattis recently. Stuff like, “The most important space on the battlefield is the six inches between your ears.” These were from his former days as a Corps General Officer. Here’s another which could leave you breathless. “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” Yea, that’s maybe a little rambunctious for most civilian purposes but it has it’s place.
So while we are still thinking about that what if we took that powerful quote and put it in Caminohead terms. What if we thought about having a plan to buoy up everyone we meet. What if we were able to do that in some elegant way without seeming weird or without expending too much energy. What if it was like a muscle memory thing that after a while we wouldn’t even have to think about it, it just happens.
Well, that’s all I can accomplish here for now. We have Mass in the morning, some archery shooting and the Big Game. Buoy it up love, Felipe.
Be polite, be professional, but secretly conspire to boost the self confidence of everyone you meet. Funny you should write about that. I just met someone–the instructor in the course I’m taking–who does that. And it seems like it’s contagious. I was thinking about it just last night.
Let’s start!
Hola Felipe,
Hope the chemo AEs are not too bad this week. Thinking of you. And thinking of PFJ too, who is under the “rolled over by a truck” feeling these days too. It is hard to do the Regional Bureau job when my boss and my co-worker are below their usual 100% 🙁
So, back to the post… Don’t you think that what we do as pilgrims is what this phrase asks for? I am thinking on what we discussed a few days ago… about being caring… I think it is just another way of describing what a pilgrim is. And we, as Caminoheads Republic Citizens and Public Servers, is what we do too.
Healing for AEs hugs,
Cris
Cris ~ yes it is what we do, you are right. But I had to do something with that General Mattis quote, it’s been haunting me. It was a way of putting it to use, so to speak. Felipe.x
You are The Boss, therefore, I comply with your orders!!! From now on, as a public server of Caminoheads Republic, I promise tobBe polite, be professional, be elegant and buoy up everyone I meet. (I am standing up with my hand in my chest as I say this!)
Enjoy your football game!
Cris ~ hehe! It seems like the thing to do, yes? It seems like something that we have been doing amongst ourselves as walkers on the Camino but I think that we ought to broaden the effort as much as possible. For instance, if we think about the all too common occurrence of suicide maybe this would stop that one pearson for one day. All we can do with a lot of things is on small part but maybe that is an important part somehow. Signs of spring coming on here, Felipe.x