Pilgrim Beatitude #4 as written in our Phil’s Camino Passport: “Blessed are you pilgrim because you have discovered that, the authentic Camino begins when it is contemplated.”

And then the same number as written in my September 14, 2014 blog post: Blessed are you pilgrim because you have discovered that, the authentic Camino begins when it is completed.”

Contemplated or completed, I would have to attack the archives to find the original which isn’t going to happen in the here and now. But in the meantime a whole new door has been opened maybe unintentionally but interestingly. Back in the early days of the blog I covered the Beatitudes pretty heavily as well as this notion that the Camino starts when you finish in Santiago. As a matter of fact that idea fueled this blog for years. It kept the blog alive in the sense that writing about life after the Camino in Spain made complete sense.

So we covered that heavily and after much writing and much commenting and much thinking the whole caboodle made sense to me if I said that the Camino in Spain, the Way of St James was basically a training ground. That is what I boiled it down too anyway. But now when that one word is changed we have something a little different maybe. And to me it doesn’t matter which one is right, it matters that we have another way of looking at it.

whole caboodle loves, Felipé.