Rare And Crazy Times

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A tomato in the heart rocks.
(photo P Volker)

As much as I wish my life was all about football and tapas these times call me away. More than call me away they are beating on me night and day. There is much to sort out and take in and process. In the meantime I struggle to stay centered.

We seem far far away from our happy go lucky days walking on ancient trails. Now it all seems a burden way heavier than any pack we ever carried before. But I know we have a flame that is still alive and well. Can we find it and protect it and show it to each other.

Can we, yes, not forget to show it to each other as we walk through these times. We need to make sure that as many of us as possible make it to the finish line on the other side. We have a long way to go yet but it is doable and it is our way now as it has always been to keep moving and help each other out.

Catherine is coming, time to find my boots.

as always loves, Felipé.

8 thoughts on “Rare And Crazy Times”

  2. Good job that you are not hiking in Spain now as they’ve had tons of snow.in Madrid the snow looks about 3 feet deep.i think that it’s one of the highest altitude capitals in Europe although Andorra la Vella, Sophia, Bulgaria and San Marino City are higher.i suppose that if you included Armenia in Europe then Yerevan too but I think that it’s Asia?you’d snowed in crossing the mountains now.

  3. Hi boss,

    Huff… I know what you mean… we are all at the point of breaking up… but weren’t we like this when we went to the Camino too? I have this feeling that once you start seeing yourself as a soul being in a human journey, life confronts us with moments like this one all the time: the pandemic is a very human bodily issue, and we have dealt with it as much as we have been able too, adjusting, re-adjusting, re-readjusting and so on, as time has passed; and we have done the same with every other issue these times have brought, but the reality is that our souls are somehow slower and get tired more easily, so there are these moments when they simply cannot catch up and we feel out of sync… I once read that in Africa, there was this tribe that worked as “Sherpas” do: helping foreigners with heavy duty work that they only can do because their bodies are adapted to the environment. So they were hired by this filming company to move things from one location to the other; but at a point, the foreigners caught up with them, as asked how was it that they hadn’t arrived, to which they replied that “their bodies could move this fast, but they always had to stop to wait for their souls to catch up with them”

    Now, the question is whether we would have preferred to live these events or not to… and to this, I have in mind these words from Martin Sheen who in an interview he said he has often said that if he knew, going in, what awaited him on Apocalypse Now, he would have passed. Yet, what happened in those times in his personal life, allowed him to be the person he wanted to be.

    I don’t really have anything thoughtful to conclude, other than finishing with a “Buen Camino”.
    Love,
    Cris

    1. Cris ~ yes, re-readjusting, something like that. I guess it is all a part of our training. There is that phenomenon where we tend to forget the hardness of the journey afterward. Hoping for that. Felipé.x

  4. Very interesting:mind/body dualism a question many have asked probably since the dawn of humanity?is our consciousness generated by the body,as materialism maintains,or is the body generated by mind?well I don’t claim to know but so far nobody has been able to offer a satisfactory explanation as to how matter could generate consciousness.i have thought about this a lot over the years and have always sort of had a position of panentheistic belief that consciousness has it’s root elsewhere and has for reasons unknown generated the universe and I suppose us as individuals although we are probably not individual at all but part of the consciousness of the external generator.as the 3 Musketeers shouted;”all for one:one for all!”people might find the loss of individuality unsatisfactory upon death but I ask, unless you are a Hindu,did you have it before birth?

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