Our moon is in it’s waxing crescent, 1% illumination.
(photo P Volker)
Well, we had a terrific Hummingbird Week. On Friday Rho had a great post on Assisi with lots of activity in the Comments. And we got started moon watching.
I don’t really know where to go next but was deeply affected by a TV documentary that we were watching last night. I really didn’t see it all but what I did see was impressive. Altogether it was two hours of photos by Pete Souza of President Obama, his family and folks around him. They were all candid shots so nothing was posed. It was such a celebration of the present moment. It was enlightening to me. A very impressive collection of history. I think that it will probably be on again somewhere. It was entitled The Way I See It.
Also last evening I had a Zoom talk with a women who is in the application process to go to Lourdes with the Order of Malta, like I did in 2018. It is always a challenge to put the Lourdes experience in words but I try. Then also, it is a challenge to put the Order into words, with it’s one foot in the past and one in the present. We rattled on for an hour and a quarter and I feel like we barely scratched the surface. That trip was canceled this year because of the pandemic so who knows what next year’s conditions will bring?
OK, lunch time here. Walk tomorrow, Sunday afternoon at 4. Hope to see you somewhere soon.
rattling on loves, Felipé.
Must be a long journey to Lourdes from the Seattle area?24 hours or more? Seattle Paris then TGV train?my aunt use to go there when I was a boy from a town called Hartlepool in north east England and the local Catholic community, the town being sort of split between Catholics and Protestants,use to hire a bus from a company called United Automobile Services and they would travel overnight to Lourdes I guess that they must have used the Dover Calais ferry?my family where/are completely secular so we never got involved with things like that although as a kid I must confess that the overnight bus trip, and ferry, would have been pretty exciting.these days my cousin lives near Lourdes and keeps alpacas although I doubt that he’s religious so probably never goes there except perhaps for shopping?
Kevan ~ these days Lourdes has it’s own airport. 285 of us flew from LAX there on Tahitian charter. Lourdes is second most visited place after Paris. It is kind of a big deal that nobody hears about. Felipé.
Hi boss,
I have to say I suffered last week with the hummingbirds posts! It was like going back to school to learn names, habitats, migration paths, geography, ecosystems… But, my soul has kept thinking on your suggestion that every cancer patient should have a birds feeder as part of their treatment… that is the best advise I have ever heard… a birds feeder along with a neighborhood with such a sense of community as this one, are certainly as powerful as any drug scientists can work on development…
Love your ideas Love,
Cris
Cris ~ Yea, bird feeders. Totally serious on this one. I am glad that you are seconding the motion. Felipé.x
Thank you, boss! I have been thinking we can start a Non-Profit NGO Start-Up Commission… an initial name could be “A Caminoheads bird feeder for you” (but we can discuss!!!) And within the outreach, I am envisioning a first launch with an initial fundraising to gift a bird feeder for every one we feel needs one (for whatever reason it may be); and in a second launch, shipping a bird feeder to every one who purchases the blog-book. Obviously, all of this is subject to discussion. And once you sign the executive order, this vessel will start the process! 😀
Monday morning quirky thoughts Loves,
Cris
Cris ~ I think that you are “catching” Quirky. Be careful. Felipé.
It’s further west, Lourdes, than I thought and not that far from Bordeaux.its 800 miles south of Seaton Carew where I live.i think that the airport might be in Pau which looks close as I’ve seen adverts for flights to Pau.i don’t know the south west of France at all having mainly travelled in the north, the east and south east.one place I’d like to go is the tiny Port Cros National Park on an island off Toulon.last time I was down that way was to visit the Calanques National Park just east of Marseilles.i lived in Oxford at the time and got to Cassis the nearest town in one day using trains!the 0400 train Oxford London, London Paris,Paris Marseilles and Marseilles Cassis arriving about 21hr..be much harder now as I’m much further north.
Kevan ~ the airport that I am referring to is in Tarbes, France. It serves Lourdes, the city of Tarbes and ski resorts in the Pyrenees. That’s where we flew in and out of two years ago. Felipé.
Yes I found it strange that it an Pau are so close.Tarbes,/Lourdes it says can land a 747 but the only year around scheduled flight is from Paris Orly everything else is seasonal or charter.Pau is a similar set up,seasonal, except thàt it’s also a military areodrome.i guess people must go there skiing.my travels to that mountain range was further east when I visited Andorra;train from Paris then a bus.