Well we swept them off their feet here in Indianapolis! Totally wonderful festival here, the Heartland Film Festival. Met many interesting and amazing people. People listened to my stories and laughed at my jokes, what a great place. Hehe.

Yes and we did capture an award. It is maybe the Best Documentary Premiere. That’s pretty close. Anyway it was just an awesome experience and it gleaned us $3500 to add to the fund. Yup. Yea, team!

And a big thank you to all the dear friends that drove and flew to be here with us. You guys made the experience so much richer. So proud to be in the same playpen with you guys.

So we are unwinding at the moment after all the hoopla. We are flying out tomorrow to get back to you there in Washington. Pray for us. Love you again and always, Felipe.x

We are tucked away at a secret location here in the suburbs of Indianapolis. The sun is out and it is filtering down through the leaves of dozens of wonderful hardwood trees around the house. A beautiful morning in the making.

And we are off soon to meet up with the convergence of Caminoheads at a luncheon rendezvous. I just know that it will all be a whirlwind and am appreciating the quiet at the moment. It is all so amazing.

I will be able to relate to you the happens of today in the next quiet moment. I believe that today is the finale of the festival with the last showing of SFSG at 5 something and then some sort of award ceremony and grand party this evening. That is the overall outline for today. It will be fleshed out with much talk, laughter and woopla.

My voice is in better shape today. I loose it periodically during chemo. Will have to try and conserve it for this evenings QandA. Good luck with that Felipé.

OK, time to get ready to go. A deep breath and a prayer loves, Felipé

Had a nice flight today. We are at My Rebecca’s cousin’s now recouping. Tomorrow we have a lunch to gather people before the showing. And here is what Annie wrote me:

“I’m thinking that it might be easiest to all have lunch together on Saturday around 11 or 12. There’s a deli called McCallisters at the mall where the AMC Castleton theater is.”

On my way to bed here for now. See you tomorrow. Love, Felipé.

Anyone know what that means anymore? I heard that the latest antitheft device for your vehicle was having a stick shift. Apparently there are only a few of us that know how to work them in 2018. But shifting gears meaning that I am going from one mode to another here, outback mode to film festival mode. Yikes, can Felipé pull it off one more time?

Jamesie and I got all the birds cleaned and in salt water yesterday morning and tonight we are putting together a game dinner. And then we are off early tomorrow morning for Heartland. And big surprise that Catherine y Dana got seats on the same flight to go with us! The plot thickens as they say.

I have been reading Thomas Merton’s book lately. He is working on explaining love or relationship. There are all kinds of details that I had never thought of before. Which is good I suppose. I mean this guy really really thought about this stuff for our sake. But we know that the real essence is way beyond our ability to explain. We know that.

Well, have a walk in a few minutes. Looking forward to seeing what has been going on around the trail. Will probably be writing from the plane next. See ya loves, Felipé.

The three of us safely back from our trip. Much thanks for that. My brain is generally scrambled and maybe I will just send some pix of this gorgeous afternoon. We is Settle generally try and hid the fact that days like this happen in October but am letting the cat out of the bag.

See you tomorrow hopefully with something to write about. It is always a pleasure to be with you. Ever onward loves, Felipé.

We are out at our desert camp, at home with the sage brush and rattlers. Last year someone forgot to pack our trusty tent, the Elk Hotel, but she is a going concern here presently.

Jamesie, Wiley’s buddy, rigged up some wifi for me to get a post out today. I got better service here in the Middle of Nowhere than at home, go figure.

Well, I am getting feedback from folks seeing the new film in Indianapolis. Yup, all pretty amazing. Really looking forward to the weekend and a reunion with some grand folks. The big event is the showing on the 20th, which is the last one for Indie. We will be there to answer all your questions.

Gotta go and fix lunch for the boys. Alperfect as usual loves. Felipe.

Two things to accomplish today, get to the hospital to finish up my treatment and pack my trusty truck for the trip east. It is all in the realm of possibility no problem. But this may be a short post because of that scheduling pressure.

I have a nuts and bolts question for you. The last two months the readership to this blog has fallen off, at least the stats show that. I don’t know if that is really true or just a glitch somewhere. I noticed that I don’t get your comments through my email anymore and that happened in the last two months. My question for you is did you notice something different recently? Maybe there is some sort of formatting glitch that is hindering our communications.

Always a challenge fighting the technology wars. Just when I think I have my own personal rut in order something changes. I really need an on staff eleven year old to keep this in order.

Well, enough of that. I am taking along a Thomas Merton book for my trip. I have never really read anything by him only a quote here and there. So, we will see what develops. Oh, it is entitled No Man Is an Island.

There is some sad news coming in from Italy where Rho was robbed of her wallet. We are doing our best to brighten her.
She is our new SW US Caminoheads Bureau Chief coincidentally. Maybe if you haven’t said hi lately you could.

OK, I have to go. The clock is ticking a little louder than usual. Love you guys, Felipe.

Here’s our general schedule til the time changes and our afternoon walks then will start 1/2 hour earlier:

Monday 0900-1000
Tuesday 1600-1700
Thursday 0900-1000
Sunday 1600-1700

But here are some dates when the trail will NOT be open:

Sunday Oct 14
Monday Oct 15
Tuesday Oct 16
Sunday Oct 21
Monday Oct 22

Felipe.x

Well yea, that is my battery charge at the beginning of this session but not exactly my statis. Had treatment yesterday which is akin to being bit by a rattler every two weeks or something similar. But here I am ready to say hi and impart some sort of bogus wisdom to you’ll.

One of my archery students is a history prof and left me with a wonderful book to read. It’s a history book dealing with St James, Spain and things Camino. It is history maybe not exactly written for the layman but not out of reach either.

I am maybe a quarter of the way through it and have seen enough to recommend to recomend it to you. It is written in a sort of Nat’l Geographic style with lots of color shots of sites, art and maps so it is broken up nicely for the readers interest.

The history of the Iberian Peninsula is so rich and largely buried. As we walked the Camino we were forever coming across rubble and ruins of this and that, we not knowing. But the enormity of it all is impressive. So check this out if you have a long winter to fill and have an itch for history.

I am walking in a moment and then archery with the history prof and her husband, Jen and Jim. So check the walking schedule next because I will be gone for many of the walks in October.

Love, Felipe.

Well, I don’t even know if she needs help but if she ever did we would be ready. Right now we don’t have much to work with but we have enthusiasm and we know how to work a shovel.

And of course someone else may need help also. Labyrinths may be the next big deal springing up hither and yon. Wouldn’t that be great to see. Of course they are not as exciting as devices with screens. Maybe they would be a good alternative. Or time spent in that form of contemplation would be a good alternative to the time spent on our gadgets.

As I understand it the labyrinth was an invention to give a person an idea of what a pilgrimage would be like. I really have to stretch my imagination to come up with that but yes there is something there. I will work on expanding that for myself and for us.

And who knows maybe we could come up with some innovations in what a labyrinth looks like. Maybe there are other forms or ways to do it. We could maybe reinvent the wheel on this one. It has been known to happen.

Look, I have to go as my battery is almost gone here at the hospital. I want to complete this and get it on the wire.
Thanks for stopping by. Maybe you could write to me about any ideas you have in this area.

Thanks for stopping by loves, Felipe.