Sort of like a request for “a table for two please” at your favorite restaurant. You know everything with work out in the end. We are here to buoy each other up and that is what we are up to today.

These days My Rebecca is plagued with sciatica pain. It has been going on for a while and it comes and goes like some middle school bully thinking he owns the place. She tries various things and nothing seems to work in the long run. I am asking you now to please focus your energy and use your connections to work on her well being. Thanks, that means a lot.

And two, our Caminoheads England Bureau Chief, Karen Kelly who lives in Cambridge needs you too. She is going in for surgery on Wednesday and would like your prayers and energy. I am asking her to hold steadfast even with the storm howling around her. Ask for healing and peace for her please.

As Cris reminds us we are a neighborhood here at Caminoheads and we need to be aware of each other. That is both tracking our victories and keeping track of our needs as we walk along. But I am preaching to the choir (does that translate?). We know this already but now just a reminder.

I got some confusion cleared up yesterday about my scheduling at the Treatment Center and I don’t have to make an appearance this week. Next week I have a long day on Wednesday for a scan and an appointment. But for now I am free. Alperfect.

Off to spend my daily hour weeding and then to the shop to work on the church cabinet that needs to get finished. Yea, here we go loves, Felipé.

It’s still early here in Orlando before the fray. Shari is here to guide me around the day or part of the day. We actually fly out this afternoon and get back to our own lives.
We are pretty much meeting and greeting this whole morning and then we have the showing just after lunch.

Beside all this I wanted to take the time to give a book report on a book that I finished on the plane yesterday. I had all day to sit and the book was perfect to keep me occupied. This is It’s Not About the Hair And Other Certainties About Life & Cancer by Debra Jarvis. Debra had come last week to walk Phil’s Camino along with three other ladies associated with oncology in Seattle. Debra was a chaplain for years at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

It was a very engaging account of happenings with cancer patients in her work as an outpatient chaplain. Then the kicker is she developed a case of breast cancer and lived through the process herself from the other side. It is all very personal and funny, serious and universal at the same time. I am so glad that this came into my life at this moment. It is a spark, an inspiration. Thanks Debra for all your work on this.

Well, time to jump up and make sense of my gear and get out to search for some coffee. It looks like another beautiful day here in Orlando. I’m keeping the heat and humidity behind glass myself as I flit from one venue to the next. OK, break a leg Felipé!

See you later alligator loves, Felipé.

Right here right now I am writing this on the bus in honor of Cris CSABC. She does a lot of writing on the bus down there. Do they drive on the right side of the road or the wrong side? Just wondered. It is bumpy and jerky. Man this takes special talent. Maybe I could get used to it.

Flying to Orlando today to be at the American College of Sport’s Medicine annual get together. We have a showing tomorrow of Phil’s Camino and then the QandA for 45 minutes. And will have some time to mingle with folks before and after.

And it’s all about making connections this weekend. Shari from our distribution company has been there for a few days setting things up for me. She is my handler for this event. I could get used to this treatment.

Well, OK I have experienced the writing on the bus. And look we are at the airport. We are supposed to have wifi on the plane so will be back to you then. Well the plane wifi didn’t happen but here I am at the hotel at a little after midnight. and there is wifi here for guests.

I had some food and drink with Shari and Randy a minute ago and we will be up early in the morning to have breakfast with the president of this outfit. Getting to meet some of the folks. There are something like five thousand professionals here involved with some aspect of sports medicine. Our showing is a special added on feature to this whole shindig on the last day. So we are currently guessing at how many folks will show up.

But we are ready and willing to do our best. Sorry this was such a long drawn out post today but it covered three thousand miles. As Steve-O CNWBC says, “We never close!”

Til tomorrow loves, Felipé.

Lately, every time I see this word I have to laugh. When our son was young I asked him before dinner, “Have you washed your hands lately?”. And he fired back, “Don’t call me Lately!”. OK, OK.

I am trying to button up my personal projects here in the next few days so that I can fly of to Orlando this weekend and do my gig there. We are showing the Phil’s Camino documentary to the American College of Sports Medicine at their yearly convention. This is both exciting and challenging for me personally. Break a leg Felipé!

Steve-O our Caminoheads NorthWest Bureau Chief is here now checking in with us. It is always fun and profitable to see him. He is relocating from Ashland OR to Portland OR so we will see more of him in the future as that is way closer.

CAMINOHEADS VERANDA NEWS (AUGUST 23-26th get together) I just heard for Rho CSWBC that the email caminoheads@outlook.com has been down for a few days but it is up and running again for RSVPing for the Caminoheads Veranda. We have gathered 30 people coming and we should collect another 20 easy. I am guessing and hoping for fifty. I need to get Seattle area folk informed and headed this way.

Off I go for now, Veranda love, Felipé.

Hi, I am weeding and mowing, it feels like summer. We are eating out on the Veranda most evenings. Walkers in shorts come by. This is it!

Time to get some hotdogs for the grill. Yea, what happened to them anyway, kind of out of vogue right now. Shopping day today, I am off to town in a minute and I’ll see what I can find at the IGA.

Also, something coming up in July concerning Caminoheads that I just saw. And that is, of course this is in the God willing catagory, sometime in July we will have written two thousand blog posts. That is pretty amazing and I am thankful for the longevity to have gotten this far, and this far in style! And thank you to my readers for th comments and inspiration over that time.

I really have to go for now, lots of moving parts to my day. Good to be with you though. Summer loves, Felipé.

I just noticed this morning that I am missing a little something. Five years ago after loosing two little Virgin Mary medals on the Camino I found a tiny silver shell in a crack in the sidewalk. It was some little town, big enough to have a pharmacy type town, and I was with Maryka in the last 100 kilometers somewhere. Doesn’t matter, a crack is a crack. But I have been wearing it on a chain around my neck along with a silver cross that was my Mother’s.

Well, it is somewhere right? Somewhere safe for the next person to find is the right way or a good way to look at it I suppose. A certain amount of randomness is refreshing and welcome.

We saw the Sam Cooke documentary film last evening on Netflix. My Rebecca heard about it from a friend. That was a good one to catch up on some important history.

Memorial Day today. The local vets are putting on a ceremony at the Vashon Cemetery. I ran or helped with that for something like twelve years when I was serving in various offices in the American Legion Post. I had to quit that when my cancer hobby got so time and energy consuming. But we remember those on whose shoulders we stand.

OK, have a walk in a few minutes. The day is supposed to be beautiful and maybe eighty degrees. Holiday loves, Felipé.

Last evening My Rebecca, a friend Marie and I braved it into downtown Vashon to the movie theater to take in Amazing Grace about Aretha Franklin. Wow, I haven’t wept in a theater like that since seeing the Camino Documentary back in 2014. My Rebecca said there was too much closeup sweating for her. There was a lot of that too.

This footage was taken in 1972 of Aretha signing Gospel and never was completed as envisioned due to technical difficulties. So, it came out in this form and in what year I don’t know but fairly current. A very young Mick Jaeger is in the audience in this Baptist Church building for instance.

This is such an important document of our times. It sort of explains a lot in it’s own way. We are so used to her in her more pop role but this is really where she came from and what she wanted to keep in touch with.

She was backed up by the South California Gospel Singers lead by Alexander Hamilton. Also A Reverend Cleveland sang with her and that was his church where the filming took place. Aretha ‘s father spoke, the Reverend Franklin and he was one sharp looking dude. I have the feeling that some of these folks probably have had something to do with Annie’s Agape Choir there in LA these days.

Anyway, all very moving. And those folks had that place humming. I was waiting for that building to collapse, it was stressed during that performance for sure. Too much rhythm goin on.

Well, that was our big night out. Today I am off to the shop in a minute to work on my cabinet job for St. John Vianney’s Church. Then there is weeding for the corn also. Walking later at 1600 or 4PM. It is supposed to be warming up. Maybe do some sweating of our own.

Will be in Orlando this coming weekend at the annual convention of the American College of Sports Medicine showing Phil’s Camino. Will be back for the walk next Sunday, just a quickie.

Good deal loves, Felipe.