Opening Up

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William on his birthday spent in a cave in Alberta. The guy earns his pay!
(photo W Hayes)

I think that I caught the news that things are starting to open up in Spain for some sort of pilgrimage experience. Don’t think that I made that up. Feels like we all have been living in a cave for far too long now. If anyone gets any reports in an pilgrims resuming the Camino please get them into us. Maybe Ronaldo and Ann in Astorga would have and idea on this.

When I think of my Camino experience with Kelly and Rick and the camera crew and our Camino family and the general crush of people it is hard to think of translating that into a virus safe situation. That would take some major engineering. But it needs to happen somehow. What a challenge!

And slowly here things seem to be opening up. Had a great walk Thursday morning with old pilgrim friends Jim and Jen. They hadn’t been here to be with us since the end of February or the beginning of March. After our three laps we sat on the deck with My Rebecca, in distant seating of course, and gabbed. We are starting to reconnect.

Well, maybe we can prepare by thinking about reopening. Maybe we can sort of will it into being, safely though. And we got our first issue of Atlantic Magazine which Rebecca sprung for, keeping the Felipé informed.

making it happen loves, Felipé.

5 thoughts on “Opening Up”

  1. Oh, I would have loved to be there on Thursday…!!!

    Just keep being safe… this situation is not at all “over”… we are just getting used to it, and living with it, but still by no means we can let ourselves “be at ease”… I have been reading posts of people assuming when the Camino will open or even suggesting ideas to do so… And I was wondering that maybe, we can encourage any pilgrim or future pilgrim, to drop down this idea for 2020&2021 and instead, start using their imagination and do their own “backyard” Camino… Maybe because I am on “the other side” (on the medical side), I see these questions and my stomach aches… but on the other hand, I think “we” can also share with “them”, that a lot of the Camino happens being close to the other, listening while they speak really softly, almost as if we were their priest listening to their confessions; and also hugging each other, while laughing loud in a pilgrims table… in the social distancing world we must keep living for a while (for the health and safety of all of us), those things shouldn’t happen…

    I know… it is sad… but I have been thinking that there should be a way to honor the ones who have died and the ones who have lost their loved ones due to this pandemic… and maybe we can do that aware that the health of the other is “in our hands”…

    Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of LOVE,
    Cris

    1. Cris ~ I fear that you are only too right on this one. Somehow I/we want it to be over so badly that we believe in magic almost. You are reminding us that it is not that easy. I think that I will reprint your comment on the blog today. Read Ron’s comment also. OK, thanks for your more realistic view of the situation. Felipé.x

  2. It is too early to make broad and accurate statements on the Camino ‘opening.’ It will be different and I will forward reliable info as it happens. I remind myself, and each reader, that each of us has a personal pilgrimage experience.

    Stand-by for info as it is published by responsible groups.

    I plan to walk a day on the Camino in a week or two but I don’t expect an albergue to be open, likely a taxi ride home.

    I am hoping to walk the Ingles from Ferrol in the fall. We will see.

    1. Thanks Ronaldo ~ read Cris’s comment about the situation in her eyes. She thinks that we have a long way to go before. She is probably right on this. Felipé.

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