Don’t let me forget that I have a walk at 9:00. You would think that after all this time I would have this down but I spaced out on the Tuesday walk two days ago. Just got busy in the shop and it passed me by. If any of you showed up to no Phil, sorry.
Anyway Ivette sent in the pic today. Isn’t it great. I was just trying to date it and it seems early 2014. We opened the trail on December 21, 2013 and Sture died in November 2014. So for sure it was in that time frame. There are no leaves and the pile of rocks is fairly high so I put it at January or February 2014. I have a rain jacket on and it looks like the shelter is going up so it is winter for sure with a light rain falling at that moment.
Now that area is so overgrown with rose and willow that you just can’t see in that direction and it looks like a grotto there under the tree. So this is the time when I am walking Phil’s Camino as an exercise program with no clue that Spain is in my future. Ah, such an innocent age!
This was the time that Dr Zucker was writing up his reports with all the mentions of the trip to Spain like I was going tomorrow and I am saying, “No Doc I can’t go to Spain.” He saw it in my future.
OK, so there it is for today. Walking on the trail in a moment. Come by when you can loves, Felipé.
That is a fabulous pic. Says far more than a thousand words; recalls so many moments, joys and, yes, concerns.
How delightful that retrospect justifies the hopefulness glimpsed back then. So many times of deep peace and anticipation not at all expected back then. And that dog, Sture the Swede, caused our lives to be woven together in ways unimaginable to me at the time. Even his dying served to deepen spiritual awareness, spotlight community, elevate friendship.
Thanks for posting this. It means a lot to me, touches my soul.
Steve ~ yes, it’s a keeper. The times were good, the characters robust and we tasted of something higher than the usual. Thanks for being here with us. And then it’s not over yet. Felipé.
Phil love your posts! Hoping pain decreases for R. !
Having rouble getting to the outlook site to register and get the details for the Camino reunion….any thing else I can do to get into it ?
Kim ~ [email protected] is just an email address to RSVP. So glad that you are thinking of coming. I can answer your questions via phone or email. It is going to be really a good time. Felipé.x
What an amazing memory, Phil!
At that time, Phil was there, not Felipe, as Felipe had not been born, right?
And maybe, back then there was no blog.
And no neighborhood.
No Caminoheads.
No movie.
All these ripples you send out to the world in the blogosphere, probably were caught in a small bottle…
It is amazing all that has happened in 5 years… it doesn’t sound like a lot in terms of time, but for those who know Felipe and have come to be part of the neighborhood, it is a whole new life… in a whole new world…
Thanks for sharing!
Felipe’s type of loves,
Cris
Cris ~ yes, none of that stuff was realized although there was a sort of pregnancy going on. Dr David knew that I was going to Spain although I didn’t have a clue. Yes, I think that it is a whole new world. Felipé.x