Late Saturday morning here on Vashon. The sky is blue as a result of the high pressure system and should remain so for more days ahead. Things colder than we are normally used to. I’m here babysitting my sick doggy. The Vet did some stuff to make him relatively comfortable. So he is hangin out.
The really good news is that I was over at my friends Dick’s yesterday andhe kind of lost it and made five apple pies. Nobody does that. So I gott a piece to bring home which I shared with Rebecca. She immediately calls Dick up to say that it is the best pie she has ever had. So today, Dick gives me a WHOLE pie with the message that flattery works. Yea, see.
Anyway back to the other Camino. Kelly came up with a pic of the Sister what was at the gnarly old church on the hill where we got the Pilgrim’s Beautitudes. The church itself was in a grove of trees and you walked to it. No road or driveway or parking, old school. Maybe I will include a few more pics of it. The spiral stone stairway to the ultra funky bell tower and the beautiful relatively simple alter piece.
And the Sisters were always smiling, well not always always but you know most always. Whatever they would be up to no matter how mundane or ordinary they were smiling away like they know something we don’t. Hmm.
Then the the topic of really gnarly dudes that you would see occasionally walking like they just live on the trail. Sometimes they would be walking the other way, the wrong way which always attracts attention. Yea, these guys were the cool grad students on campus and we were the dorky freshman, like you can’t even approach them. I bet they had some stories. Needless to say that I don’t have any pics of them although they closely approximated the architipical St James Pilgrim look, if you can picture that.
OK, Thansgiving holiday is coming up here in America when we are thankful to God for the rich bounty that we enjoy. So if you don’t know about Thanksgiving Day you had better Google it, it’s a good one. You guys are peachy, Love, Felipe.