happy new year!
to all my dear camino family,
and if you are reading this, that means you! as this magnificent year
comes to a close, i find myself thinking about all of you . this year
was great in so many ways. some of you i just met, and some of you our
friendship deepened. i felt so supported by my friends and family in
america while i walked the camino and that feellng has never really
left me. like the voice that i heard when i first looked back as i
climbed o'cebreiero and saw the valley in all its beauty lying there
smiling at me "i was here all the time", i feel like that is true of
you too. you were there all the time, weren't you?! and i didn't
always take time to notice, or maybe i thought that i didn't need you.
well i may not 'need' you now, but i sure do appreciate you! and it
is a wonderful feeling that i carry with me now, one of being supported
in everything that i do. i am once again writing under a tight time
constraint-this time i am at a new year's silent meditation retreat and
asked to use my roomates computer and have about 10 minutes. so this
will be going out without so much as a second glance so i just have to
cross my fingers that it makes sense!
this retreat is in joshua
tree, which is the desert. i actually left the meditation room today
after lunch because i just wanted to be outside. i am not that
familiar with the desert, so it is still strange and wonderful to me,
with unusual plants, stark vistas, and lots of cacti (watch where you
walk!). when i got back to the room, we meditated for a bout another
hour, then rev. michael announced that we were getting a couple of
hours off to go outside and explore! a double blessing!
so
today i got to walk for almost three hours and it has left me thinking
so much about all the people i met on the camino: christianne (le
soleil!) and pierre louis, glen, catalina and alex, tatiana, alexi and
cyrian, lionel, kerry, rose and john, nikki, ivan, and so many more!
how wonderful they are! what a blessings it was to meet you all! so
many moments came to me as i walked today-seeing kerry as i approached
santiago (and also seeing kerry in finistere-let's face it, any time
you see kerry it is a blessing!), lionel's kindness to me in
o'cebreiero when i thought i could not take one more step and letting
me share his room, christianne and pierre louis being in santiago at
the same time i was, sharing cookies in the forest with rose and john,
seeing ivan along the way and in the cathedral, the last night in
santiago with catalina and alex, eating the world's best dessert with
the crew in rabanal....hearing my sister's voice when i called her from
santiago....so many wonderful times. i treasure them
so here is to
a new year and new memories, and new friends to be made, and old
friends to be cherished! i am sending you all a big hug and a kiss
from under a spectacular desert sky-the moon (a blue moon) is rising
but the sky, though dark, still looks blue, and the clouds are lit
from above by the bright moon but dark on the bottom. truly
breathtaking.
so here is to
a new year and new memories, and new friends to be made, and old
friends to be cherished! i am sending you all a big hug and a kiss
from under a spectacular desert sky-the moon (a blue moon) is rising
but the sky, though dark, still looks blue, and the clouds are lit
from above by the bright moon but dark on the bottom. truly
breathtaking. may you continue to give and receive blessings on your way-
ultreiea!
buen camino!
peace and blessings-
a
i am wishing all of you the very best in 2010.
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