Yup, fresh back from San Francisco and guess what? I am five pounds heavier than two weeks ago at my last treatment. Why would that be? Esther Hobbs, why would that be?
Yea, and fresh back to Wild Kingdom too as I missed hitting that deer by a nanosecond this AM on Vashon roads. Good brakes on my little truck. Another comment on our Wild Kingdom de Vashon is that the deer have been chewing on my little corn plants which is pretty close to unforgivable. When does the season open?
Do you know the Phil’s Camino has a FaceBook page? Check it out as there are pics from the California trip. OK, I am going to eat lunch. The best to you, love, Felipe.x
The flight back was so gorgeous! We flew over Mt Shasta for starters. Little ponds of glistening water below the glaciers. Spectacular! Then on up through Oregon to Mount Hood. Then the Columbia River below. Then Mount Adams, standing tall and snowy. Then looked down into the crater of Mount St Helens, way cool. The Cowlitz River Valley still full of the mud flow that came down when the mountain blew up in 1978. Then Mount Rainer looking so majestic. And then we dropped down into SeaTac airport. Priceless really.
So beautiful and a good way to loosen up after my high flying weekend in San Fran. So grateful to have spent time with Annie and Padre Tomas and his jolly buddies, the Paulist Fathers. Then to spend time with Catalina and her husband and their daughter. Erna my old friend from Buffalo and her husband Jerry showed up. The sensational Esther Hobbs shows up for an evening to go with me to a fab going away party for David the Mountian Biker on his way to the Camino the next day. All kinds of folks with all kinds of connections showed up. Too much fun but ultimately exhausting, glad to be back home to the ranch.
Yea, hard to keep up with all these tremendous characters; doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs. TIME GET SOME SLEEP, love, Felipe.x
OK, one way or another I am getting this post written and out this AM. I am here in the big city and working With the San Francisco Documentary Festival or Doc Fest. We had a great showing on Saturday and a great Q and A afterward.
So, I am traveling with two remarkable people, Annie O’Neil and Father Tom Hall. Yesterday morning Padre Tomas served two Masses at Old Mary’s Cathedral were we are staying at the rectory. The Mass that we choose was one in Cantonese which was very lovely and exotic to our ears. Afterward we hiked up hill to the Episcopalian Grace Cathedral to see that. We walked the beautiful labyrinth outdoors there and I got the T -shirt, as they say. This was my first labyrinth attempt and it went swimmingly with Annie and the Padre giving me pointers. Then there was a very heavy duty organ concert which I tried to get into but it was just too heavy duty I guess. I had to make a break for the outdoors.
So last night the Padre and I were up talking till past midnight. Priceless stuff was exchanged and knotty problems talked about and pushed further down the road to resolution. Again, how come I am so fortunate to get this kind of quality coaching? Just knowing that I am so extremely lucky to be walking this road at this time. Alperfect situation.
So, we are having breakfast here at the rectory. One of the Padre’s priest friend invited us to his table. That’s a few minutes off. Then we are off on the BART, a subway to Berkley. Catalina, our friend who was just up on Vashon visiting is throwing a brunch for us. So, we get to see her and James’s new digs there.
Then tonight at 1900 there is a showing of the “Cool Old Guys” group of films. Let me mention some of the characters in this group: a French beekeeper, a bail bondsman, a body builder who developed MS, a boxing coach, a second hand store collector and man who is a star roller skater and runs a church/roller rink called Church Of the Eight Wheels. Yea, see all pretty cool.
Well, I think that I brought you up to date with the happenings here. Will be flying out tomorrow morn and be walking at 1600 at Phil’s Camino, seamless. So will catch you here or catch you there. Cool old love, Felipe.x
Still trying to figure things out here at Caminoheads. Had a post written this AM but it got eaten and never could find it. So, will try again. Thought I would get some news out to folks that may show up to walk Phil’s Camino while Phil is gone. I am off gallivanting Saturday through Tuesday. I’ll miss the Sunday afternoon walk and the Monday morning one. But you are welcomed me to come if you know the way.
So, I’ll be getting the blog out from San Francisco hopefully. Will make sure you get all the important news. Still in love, Felipe.x
Daring Lisa at the Apple Store got me rigged up with an app to write my blog posts on. It sounded like a good idea at the time. And it probably will be once I figure out all the details. Yea, she’s up and gone and here I am the next morning with questions. Yea, like how to get a pic on my posts. We may be pic less for a while, pic less in Seattle.
Anyway, I could whine about that or we could go somewhere else. I know, we are off to San Francisco Documentary Festival (SF Doc Fest) this weekend. Annie will be there and we will be traveling with Father Tom Hall. I hear that he is giving Mass at Old Mary’s Cathedral on California St. Sunday morn. We actually will be staying there on the grounds. Somehow Padre Tomas got us rooms there. Connects baby!
We will be on hand for questions and answers at the two showings, one Saturday afternoon and the other Monday evening. We are in a group of short documentaries called “Cool Old Guys”. All this is on the Doc Fest website. So, if you are in the neighborhood or have friend there, give them a heads up.
Cool Old Guys
Ok, I don’t know about Cool Old Guys but do know about old guys. Have to get out there and walk in a moment, get the old guy out there. It rained over night so wear your boots for the wet grass if you are coming. Cool Old loves, Felipe.x
Yes, at the Apple Store being helped by Lisa to get to a place with my blog that is streamlined and doable. So maybe a few more lines and then I will try and add a pic and see what happens.
Annie, our beloved Producer/ Director of the short documentary Phil’s Camino just sent this in. This is the very latest version of our poster. Look at all those laurels!
Sort of lost in thought right now. I’m amazed at people. We meet each other as we travel down our individual paths, our individual direction. Sometime we are together for a while, sometimes we meet on occasion and sometimes maybe only once. But we observe each other and come away with a message.
I am noticing how some folks seem to move forward down the trail seemingly fearing everything that comes up or might possibly come up. What a burden that must be. Although perhaps it is not everything that they fear. Maybe there are areas that they feel comfortable in, I don’t know.
And then there are other individuals that I marvel at that move through the environment with such ease, seemly fearing nothing. They are aways ready for the next thing no matter what that might be. I’m inspired by them.
Off to my Tuesday. Paradise switch is on here on Vashon Island. Find the fearless, love, Felipe.x
Felipe with logbook. Getting history down on paper.
Somehow with the holiday today and all going on I lost track of the fact that there was a regular scheduled walk this AM at 0900. At 0830 I saw Dana’s email, “walk?”. And of course I answered it, “yes, of course”. See how it works? People think that I get people to walk but part of the time they get me going and motivated to get out there.
And out there is just beautiful right now. Paradise switch on, there is not a cloud in the sky. Exactly the right temperature, whatever it may be. It’s Memorial Day today here in the States, time to reflect and honor our war dead. I’m participating by helping to put up flags in town. And some folks are coming out from the city to walk and have tapas in a little bit. Just kind of a Norman Rockwell kind of day.
Nothing deep or weighty to talk about today. Just want to be here and relax in between things. I am going to catch a little mini nap before anyone shows up. Miss you all, love, Felipe.x
