After deciding to take a rest day, more for the sake of knees and ankles than tiredness ... the rhythm of daily walking with the pack is in balance with the energy flow ... occasional challenging 40s, steady 20s themselves a rest ... and today's rain reinforces resting, preventing local wandering ... albergue a convivial shelter ... with wifi ... noting also the shoes, tightly laced to prevent blister causing movement, put pressure on the foot, still slightly bruised from the San Vicente fall ...
Yesterday's shopping trip enables home cooking and more stores than can be sensibly carried ... maybe another day's worth for tomorrow ... a drier albeit cloudy day, before the return of the Sun for the walk to Finisterre. .. if the forecast is correct, of course ... anyway, bypassing Santiago and walking directly to Pontevedra looks possible ...
Musing on the mechanisms of fear ... individual, familial, societal, national, international ... how have we travelled so far from Love at all levels? Wisdom traditions suggest: As above, so below ... where to start? In evolutionary time humans become increasingly complex on the journey from single cell to billions of cells co-operating sub-consciously along with symbiotic fellow travellers ... raising the much derided and excellent question as to why there are still life forms at other levels ... forcing us to acknowledge that evolution is an on-going process ... other forms maybe usurping the homo-sapien role since we seem to have developed a strand of homo-stupido somewhere during the step change of consciousness ... not only thinking, but also thinking about our thinking ... a process blocked by everyday entertainments and painkillers like alcohol, drugs, television and social media ... the good news perhaps that in a unity of infinite parallel universes, focusing on a 3D one that no longer serves only energises it, whether we think it good or bad .. better hold it all in awareness and focus fully on the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible ... indeed at the individual level it already exists. .. and since others concur along the Camino and elsewhere transcending nationality, internationally too ...
In local news, in 2002, an oil tanker, the Prestige, hit rocks and created an ecocidal disaster for local sea life ... along with beaches from Portugal to France, and the humans depending on a clean sea and beautiful beaches ... compensation helps, though not the deceased marine life ...
In regional news, the EU funded municipal albergue up the hill, modernist concrete devoid of soul, never mind utensils to make the kitchen useful, undercuts the locally owned hostels at €6, struggling for a living at €11 a bed ... Jose also notes the donativo beds at the monastery undercut and pay no taxes ... anyway he is not bitter, just observing with a wry smile ...
In meteorological news, this morning's drenching passes over to a dull day, but ok for a stroll round town and down to the restaurant ... where Virginia arrives ... from Hertfordshire via Costa Rica ... having walked the Way, assessing life with an independently minded mother not always able to manage nor willing to admit it ... drawn to co-housing models of intentional community living ... good connection over another good meal ... Jose says the family also own three boats, so the fish is fresh ...
Nori, Japanese refugee from the soulless and washing machine and drierless municipal albergue, the only new arrival so far ... making four with Friedhelm (Fred) and Ahn. .. four other Koreans having taken the bus to Santiago ... tomorrow ... let's see ... feet already grateful and ready for the 30km to Fisterra ...
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