Well, we made it this far to another Thanksgiving and most of the time in good style I might add. Half my brain is working on a prayer for the table today. It’s coming along. My Rebecca will be up shortly to get the bird started. What is it 20 minutes per pound?

We are really excited about coming events here starting this coming weekend. Catalina from Berkeley will be here to further our project of the book about Phil’s Camino the trail. The film has gotten a max amount of attention the last couple years of it’s existence but the trail has been in the background. Yet the film grew out of the trail so it will be good to get back to it for an exploration.

I should talk about Catalina for a minute. She came on board to help Annie with the film and she has been in and out of things since way back then. She is a scholar, pilgrim, professor and historian, oh yea, and a wife and mom to two gorgeous children. She has all the bases covered. I see her life as being a balance between the days of Hildegard the Healer and modern day Northern California.

The idea for the book was hers and rightly so. With her expertise she was able to see things in the mud and the grind and the prayers of our Camino here, something that just wasn’t obviuos to me anyway. Just as there are shines to Lourdes in France all over the world which were built so that locals who couldn’t get to Lourdes could participate in the healing, she picked up on the parallel phenomenon here. This was all built for/by me thinking that I couldn’t go to Spain and do the real Camino. She saw the historic connection. Love her. She calls the project here land art.

So land art it is Catalina. Well, maybe water art too as the season progresses here with the rain and current series of storms. So the book will try and capture this through the eyes and feelings of the pilgrims who have walked here. There have been close to 300 folks from all over the world who have come and participated. I have email addresses for 95% of them in the logbooks. So you all will be contacted and asked to write up your impressions of the situation here. Please find the time and energy for that.

So, also coming up on the calendar is the hometown showing of Phil’s Camino on December 1st at the Vashon Theater. That is a Friday evening. Anni, Rebecca and myself will be there to answer all you questions and to make you laugh and cry.

Here is some info: www.vashontheatre.com . At 17723 Vashon Highway SW, 206-463-3232.

OK, time to go. Have and great and meanful day. Love your gravy, Felipe.