Hello all,
I am still in San Luis Obispo. I am staying with a friend, Erik Poor, who I met up in Anchor Bay many weeks ago. He has graciously offered me a place to stay while I am in SLO. My daughter, Kate, goes to college here, and is busy with work and school. I am sticking around so that I can spend some time with her around her busy schedule. Tonight we are going downtown to check out the Farmer's Market, which I hear is pretty good! I have been helping Erik work on a house across the street to earn my keep while I am staying here.
I miss walking. I miss meeting the people. There is something wonderful about walking along like I did. I don't necessarily mean wonderful like "awesome" or "beautiful", but more like the root of the word itself- "wonder." "Full of wonder." That is exactly how I feel. I miss the people I met. There was something so real, so visceral about each and every meeting. I don't know so much if it was me, the Walk, or the persons themselves that gave me this feeling. Maybe it was a combination of all of them. But the best way to describe it is to say that it has all caused me to wonder. The Walk was a story that wrote itself. It was real. Now if I continue to write, it will be my own thoughts and feelings......but what I think was most attractive about my blog writing as I went along was that it simply was a narrative about what I had experienced. I threw in my interpretations here and there about what I thought some things meant, and the lessons that one could derive from the experience, but overall it was me passing on to you what I had experienced. I believe that what I have experienced is exactly what God wanted me to experience. I wish that everyone could experience it- it was real, more real than day-to-day life. Yes, it was fun, but it was much, much more than that. I saw the best side of everyone I came in contact with- I mean everyone, and also immediately. I was privileged, as I have said, to hear many people's stories right from the beginning of our meeting. So how is The Walk different from the day-to-day ordinary walk that I have done every day of my life? I wonder. I could say what I think right now, but what do you think?
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God bless,
Craig
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