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Si tu ne vaut pas une risee, to ne vaut pas grand chose.
If you are not worth a laugh, you are not worth much!
French Proverb
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Alice in Wonderland
I've asked myself this question many times, I'm hope I will continue to do so!!
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
Can I get somewhere on the Camino, maybe it's not about the destination and all about the journey.
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don’t much care where--" said Alice.
"Then it doesn’t matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"--so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you’re sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
Lots to think about on the Camino
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said was, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"Come, we shall have some fun now!" thought Alice. "I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. — I believe I can guess that," she added aloud.
"Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
"You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!"
"You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"
No need to run anymore......
"Well, in out country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else -- if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
What's that?
"Curiouser and curiouser!"
If a caterpillar can turn into a butterfly then our opportunities for beautiful change is boundless
"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."
Make sure the grin is a happy one, its makes for a more pleasant life
" Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; " but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever say in my life!"
What is the moral, what is the question, do we really need to know the answer?
"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
A little Advice is often hard to understand!!!
"I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of that is--'Be what you would seem to be'--or if you'd like it put more simply--'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.'"
"I think I should understand that better," Alice said very politely, "`if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it."
"That's nothing to what I could say if I chose," the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.
"Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that," said Alice.
On the Camino!!
The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked.
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
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And then there was two!!!
It was difficult to get out of my comfortable bed at 6am and head for another days walking. Once Anny Sandra and I were ready to leave, we woke Adam and Kristin to say our goodbyes! The four of us have spent the past week walking together and in many ways its sad yo be saying goodbye but we hope for a reunion night on the 21st in Santiago.
We take the bus 7km to the Leon suburb to continue out journey towards Santiago. It's a lovely morning and we are on the trail by 7am. We walk at a good pace and the conversation is good and the time and kilometres pass quickly. Before we realise it we have almost 30km done and its time to put down an anchor for the night. We book into an albergue in a small town that has the most fantastic roman bridge I have ever seen. It's a lovely little town with a very laid back feel about. After a shower a nap is required and the afternoon is spent chatting to other pilgrims from Mexico, Germany and Holland. Walking around the small town we go into the church. It's small but amazingly beautiful. It's rosary to sit and listen to the local townspeople recite the rosary. Although in Spanish, the rhythm is the same as I remember when we said the rosary every night when I was a child. It's amazing to come to Spain and to have such memories triggered! And so ends another very good day on the Camino, tomorrow should be the last day on the flat and then back into the mountains.
Buen Camino
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