keeping the journey alive and making spanish Sopa de Garbanzo at home with my son...

More thoughts....

I am thoroughly happy to download images to share...I had just over two thousand! We are now home and adjusting...it's a process..a little empty and frenetic in the big world so we are keeping it simple...Alexa and I have been home for four days and we will have walked three thus far...We miss walking. I realize I meditated everyday on the Camino...sometimes I had many things to think about other days I thought of nothing...just my breathing (in and out) or my footsteps...or the sounds around me...sometimes I listened to music or talked with a friend...or just observed everything around me...or nothing at all...sometimes I found a rock and held it...and then let it go...with a hope or intention...The present moment is all that counted and everything changed daily...so we made the most of every moment...We also got used to letting things go...and trusting. We stopped worrying about little things...whatever we needed always came..and if it didn't, it didn't matter, because we let it go...we felt free and unburdoned...We stopped carrying excess with us...physically and in spirit. The Camino is a metaphor for life and we have changed...and it is good...We miss our Camino family...mostly young people and some people my age too who came from all over the world. We are thinking of you...Laura, James, Craig, Tina, Steve, Jorge, Nieves, Susana, Sisco, Carmelo, Sandra...and others too Ivan, Sharon, Harvey, Theo, Serg and Sonja...It was a truly a Buen Camino!

Will post more pictures a bit later and when Alexa is ready, you'll hear from her too!

Peace

A window into the journey...some images to share!

The last day on my own in Lisbon....

Alexa is off for the day with our good Camino friend and companion, Steve who came to see us from Ireland...
and I find myself a bit listless...and contemplative.

Cafe con leche is first and foremost at the start of this day, like everyday on the Camino...
When I return home I have a list of meal customs (and dishes) that will become a part of my daily life, and one of them is hot milk with hot coffee in the morning!

I have been writing in my journal, listening to the music that has accompanied me over the past two months, and reading poetry that I either brought with me or that came to me along the way...

This is one favorite poem to share before I head out for the next part of my day,
 in beautiful sunny Lisbon...



We shape ourself
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 ownself,
by forming it well

to the great
intangibles about us.



David Whyte