Today we walked with two nice women from Austalia. We would walk together all four of us for a while and then would get off talking in our own group till we got back together. It has amazed me how much the Camino is about the people that you encounter along the way.
We have met people from all over the world that are doing the Camino for many different reasons. We spend time with a couple of Welsh brothers, two Americans that are teaching English in France, a Scottish retired Special Forces officer, the Italian couple that serenade us each evening with Italian songs. 
There is the French nun that is doing the Camino with her parents. The two Valencian men that we see daily at mass. The German that is also always there. The Spanish father and son that we run into on the trail each day now, and the Italian or French gentlemen that we see at each albergue. The Camino is a moving community that is constantly changing. You have new faces each day and some that you never see again. I keep thinking the two German men we met, Peter and Andreas, must just be one day ahead of us. But we have yet to see them again.
There is the French nun that is doing the Camino with her parents. The two Valencian men that we see daily at mass. The German that is also always there. The Spanish father and son that we run into on the trail each day now, and the Italian or French gentlemen that we see at each albergue. The Camino is a moving community that is constantly changing. You have new faces each day and some that you never see again. I keep thinking the two German men we met, Peter and Andreas, must just be one day ahead of us. But we have yet to see them again.This is the Camino. This is life.
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I saw this list of Pilgrim Beatitudes on one of the Camino blogs out there (yes, I'm obsessed about the Camino now. Who knows I might ask you to do it again with me some day!)
1. Blessed are you, pilgrim, if you find that the camino opens your eyes to the unseen.
2. Blessed are you, pilgrim, if what concerns you most is not arriving, but arriving with the others.
3. Blessed are you, pilgrim, when you contemplate the sights of the camino and find them full of names and of new dawns.
4. Blessed are you, pilgrim, because you have discovered that the true camino begins at its end.
5. Blessed are you, pilgrim, if your backpack empties of things as your heart doesn't know where to fit so many emotions.
6. Blessed are you, pilgrim, if you discover that a step backwards to help another is more valuable than one hundred forward without awareness of those at your sides.
7. Blessed are you, pilgrim, when you have no words to give thanks for all the wonders in every nook of the camino.
8. Blessed are you, pilgrim, if you search the truth and make of your camino a life and of your life a camino, after Him who is the Way, the Life, and the Truth.
9. Blessed are you, pilgrim, if in the camino you meet yourself and make yourself a gift of time without hurry so that you may not neglect the image of your heart.
10. Blessed are you, pilgrim, if you find that the camino is rich with silence, and the silence is rich with prayers, and the prayers are encounters with the Father that awaits you.
I love you!
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