as the time gets closer to the end, i am feeling more homesick than before.  one reason might be that i have not let myself think about missing my husband, my friends, my family...even if i don´t see you all the time, i know that you are only a phone call or an email away.  but since i didn´t bring my phone with me, and email is hit or miss, and even when it is available, it is a slow process.  but i have felt more homesick these last few days than before.  and it is hard when i miss my dog tucker since i´m not sure he is reading these emails or not.  the old opposable thumb dilemma. 

i am even homesick for people from early on in my trip-i miss christianne et pierre louis, yun soor, genevieve, manfred, gherardo e giuseppe, jenny and kim, and of course, catalina and alex.  i met up with yves et nicole the other day.  boy were they a sight for sore eyes!  i had just come into samos after a looooong day of walking, and all of a sudden i hear someone calling my name.  it was them, the lovely couple from quebec i met the first night in orisson.  our paths are crossing a lot now, which is nice.  i think i blogged earlier about staying in the restaurant-they were the couple that i saw when i entered.  i also used to see a couple from denmark, wenka and olaf but hadn´t seen them since terradillos de los templarios, over a week ago.  we had eaten dinner together that night, and they were drinking a bit, and saying how they couldn´t wait til they didn´t have to walk together anymore,  it seemed good natured, but i remember thinking, i ´m not sure i want to cross paths with them anymore.  well, i was sitting at an outdoor cafe the other day in a tiny town, and up walks wenka.  i ask where olaf is and she replies ¨broken´´ in that lovely accent of hers.  almost like the ´e´isn´t there at all,,, just brok-n.  it took me by surprise, and i sat there in silence trying to figure out how olaf had gotten broken.  then she said, ´ we don´t walk together.  we are broken. ´  they decided not to walk together , or had ´broken up´even though they weren´t an item, so to speak.  lots of changes happen on the camino.

so just know that i am missing you, but knowing that i will soon be back in the land of easy access   back to a place of fast internet and cell phone service.  til then, we are still in communion through our prayers.  i was having a lonely moment the other day and pulled out my magical mystical mirror box and got a great message from rev. greta.  it was so nice to feel the connection again.  we are all one.
peace and blessings my dear ones-
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