what is in a walk?
time effort willingness necessity perhaps
in the spirit of this blog i find myself wondering about community
three of us walk along the camino de santiago de compostela
we walk together we separate we meet up again
and all is well
we agree to watch out for one another
we give one another space
we share the fact of pain in the feet
we meet folks along the way
everyone is going in the same direction
most everyone else is walking with a degree of athleticism
i tend to go slow
i know my stamina is limited
but there is wisdom in going slow
what in fact is the rush
about anything
the three of us prefer to go slow
the spanish people for whatever else might be said about them
are people who know what leisure is about
i watched them in Leon in the evening walking
couples friends
the stroll seems obligatory
the taking time to sit and observe the passing of day
seems to humanize everything
tragedy presumptions of progress politics
all these things are measured by leisure
everything businesses farms cars walkways
everything is measured by human need
and human need is measured by the importance of leisure
i walk by businesses and most of them do not open till 10 in the morning
there is a 2 or 3 hour break and then from 4 till 7 they are open again
how sensible
what is in this walk
what gain
i do not know
i only know that i am walking
as rene char once stated
"THAT DAY I WAS JUST A PAIR OF LEGS WALKING"
the camino is about sharing faith
faith in the goodness of humanity
faith no matter what the dispostion
takes on a human quality
and the shared camino suggests something beyond time
something stretching way back in time
something stretching forward
history and mystery intersect on the camino
ultreya!
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