Happy Summer!!!  Things are definitely looking up.  For one, Bud, my good bud has succeeded in switching over our computer and operating system to the latest and greatest configuration.  Rebecca and I took him and his wife, Shela, out to have dinner and wine on the deck of the local country club to enjoy a beautiful preSummer evening.  It has turned into our favorite place to be this time of year.  Surviving the long winter seems worth it all of a sudden when it is warm and dry.

Then this blog seems like it is over the major pains of beginning and we will be able to communicate the action as we proceed toward Spain and the Camino.  My goal is to be able to describe the inner and outer Camino as we proceed.  Everything is posed for future adventure and I have my seat belt fastened.

Kelly has a favorite saying, “We could have done that when we were younger!” whenever he hears of some feat like the reports back from my son on the Pacific Coast Trail and his  group trekking twenty plus miles per day in the mountains.  Which is true Kelly, we could have done that.  Maybe one wonders whether we are smarter now and don’t have to do stuff like that but that is another topic I think.  Anyway, the point as I see it, is that at some point in time over the last few years as I have been grappling with my health issues I realized that I was now a three legged dog, so to speak.  I was recovering from a hit by the careening mighty fickle finger of fate and left three legged.  Things were going to be different.  New ways and adjustments would have to be found.  New ways to think would have to be put together.  But in the end all that happened.

And it is such an inspiration to see a real three legged dog and realize that he is going to be happy in spite of it.  Yea.  And as I am finding out there are hidden benefits to be found.  Mysteries come forth.  New opportunities come forth.  New friends arrive.  Old friends check in.  In the end it’s all good, amazingly.  Saint James is Afoot, Phil.