Our Jennifer and I one day we’re perusing a second hand store in West Seattle taking up time before the next ferry and there on a shelf waiting for me was Dr Wayne Dyer’s book “The Power Of Intention”. He died sometime last year and that put him in the news and maybe why I was curious to pick it up and say hello.

I’ve been reading away on it since before Christmas. He is a very good explainer or at least he is very persistent and explains a few things to death over and over again till guys like me say oh or oh yea. This isn’t really a book report so you will have to read some Dr Wayne on your own to pick up on his thread. Or maybe you are familiar with him, so much the better.

But the important part for us today is what I read last night and have been chewing on, gnawing on really. It was about making peace with one’s past. How to see our earthly history as something with a certain sense is what he was getting after. I can’t go into this wholly because it would take the foundation of his book to get there but suffice it to say this is an important quest and a part to the puzzle to find or create.

In one of the film clips for the Phil’s Camino documentary, I was talking about the difference between being healed and being cured. I got started on that thinking by Dr Robert Barnes just to credit him. But I was talking about healing being reconciled with God, our families and the bigger picture. Well that bigger picture is a big grab bag, right? And one of the important things in there is getting right with what has happened to us.

I am thinking that this has to be done one way or another. Can I tackle this and make it happen for myself? Can I forgive and forget? Can I be forgiven and forgotten? Can I concentrate on the Way or the big picture and perhaps see my past as crossing the river jumping quickly from one rock to another making those decisions quickly and with faith and nimbleness?

OK, enough to gnaw on for now. Peace to you teachers, Dr Barnes and Dr Wayne. And peace to you my readers. Love again, Felipe.