I just randomly ran into the second half of this PBS documentary film again yesterday. My Rebecca watched it with me and we both wept our way through it. And then Cris came up with this link:

https://www.pbs.org/video/thai-cave-rescue-81uvb5/

Also, I am copying and pasting Cris’s other comment here below because I thought that it was so right on, a touchdown! Without getting into it today her thoughts did solve something for me personally. I am just rolling that around in my mind and enjoying it. A moment of clarity. Thanks Cris.

“Now, Dear Felipe,

I loved this question Dana and you discussed while walking, and yours and Ronaldo’s thoughts.

I had this thought a couple times: do we perform better when we are in these “brought-to-our-knees” situations or is it that those situations aren’t resolve by our usual skills and we need to appeal to the forgotten tool-box we count with but almost never go to? We are the same self, right? Definitely, in those situations, one of the options is to sit and cry, and the other is to go on living with dignity. How we do the second is the question… and once thing I read from Richard Rohr was that unless we are brought to these situations of powerlessness -which is never chosen voluntarily, always rather pushed on us-, we would never accept that we cannot continue performing in the same way we were doing before, and expect a resolution. This is why when we are brought to our knees, it is merely accepting we cannot do it, -for some of us, it means we cannot do it by ourselves, and there is where faith comes to play a role; but it also means to reach out to others, as we did in the Camino.
As Ronaldo said, and I experienced myself, in the Camino it doesn’t matter “what” you are at home or the size of your bank account or your house, you still have to walk the same amount of km as everybody else, and that for me is the powerful thing, there is a very simple experience where life is fair to all of us, and whatever we are going through in our own body, soul, mind, heart, -you name it-, affects us equally, and the way to a resolution is a walking path, that we have to walk, cannot be skipped, and will bring blisters and tiredness to our selves, no matter the image we -or others- have of us “at home” (aka “our comfort zones”).

Just my usual non-succinct 2 cents love,
Cris”

The sun is shining here and I must get out in it. Love our salon, may it be long lived. Sunshine loves, Felipé.