Dear Caminoheads,

It is easy to think we don´t need to reinvent the wheel once more, right? Why do we just settle for what is familiar…? I asked myself this question a few times today…

The truth is that the obvious is not so obvious, and what has been in front of us or has been part of our “always”, often is seen as just a birth mark that cannot be changed, has nothing to provide other than what already did and hence we will walk with it until the last breath, un-questioned.

Once, I listened to David Whyte (English Poet) explaining his poem “Working Together”. We can fly in planes because what existed since always: air and shapes, were seen with new eyes, were studied, and engaged in a conversation that had never happened before, despite they had been there since “always”.

Like the rounded shape and the ground.
Or the stone and the friction.

Which are the parts of me that need to talk to each other? Which are the conversations that are yet to happen? What will I see if I let the familiarity go? …

Working Together

We shape our self
to fit this world

and by the world
are shaped again.

The visible
and the invisible

working together
in common cause,

to produce
the miraculous.

I am thinking of the way
the intangible air

passed at speed
round a shaped wing

easily
holds our weight.

So may we, in this life
trust

to those elements
we have yet to see

or imagine,
and look for the true

shape of our own self,
by forming it well

to the great
intangibles about us.

-David Whyte

 

Bewildered loves,

Cris