Moving along

Buenos noches mi amigos. Today I ordered not only one cafe con leche and toast but two, so amazing is my grasp of the language. Unfortunately I have trouble eating one order of toast which is 1/4 of yesterday's baguette toasted. The waitress was very kind and laughed. Yesterday was a very tough day, I had stayed over in Leon to explore, it has such a beautiful cathedral and incredible museums. Stopping may have not been a good idea. It seems every time I've done this camino there is a point when I think 'what in the heck am I doing?!?!' yesterday was this Caminos day to ponder my wandering. Plus im getting a little tired of my own company. Today has gone much better. In honor of the autumnal equinox I thought it would be fitting to be present for the sunrise. It has been fairly warm so I just threw on my light fleece over a tshirt and headed to the cathedral. A locale that I was pretty sure would give me the best view. Well it was not necessary to arrive at 6:30, and it was quite chilly out for the clothing I was wearing but I was committed. The moon was bright, the stars were out and Leon was still deeply asleep. I prayed the rosary. I watched the sky. Was it lighter? No. A few pilgrims started to appear and follow the shells out of town. How were they going to see those shells after they left the street lights of the city? Oh well back to the sunrise. Ever so slowly the sky started to lighten. Street sweepers came out with their brooms and started to sweep the square. About 7:45 it was light in the Eastern sky but still pretty dark in the west. As it got lighter and lighter and more people started to appear. I wanted to say look! Do you see the sun is almost over the horizon! It's probably good I don't speak the language. Its not like it doesnt happen every day, I didn't discover anything unknown. But for me, I kind of did. The sun rises every morning. For me the most I think about the sunrising is hmm, suns not up yet or yikes the suns been up for awhile hasn't it! But it takes a larger amount of time than I imagined for the sun to get anywhere near our view of the sky after its already changing the look of things. The light it sends before its appearance is beautiful. Part of the beauty is it doesn't shove the darkness away in an instant but slowly over powers it with light. I could state all kinds of my reflections of this morning, but won't. Find your own morning to watch a sunrise. I am confident you'll come up with a few ponderings of your own. Time is running out before I need to be in Santiago. Sarragosa, (yes there are about 100 ways to spell most cities in Spain) changed this camino into something different, something unexpected. There will be more bus rides than ever before but as Steve told me "you don't have to prove to anyone, especially yourself that you can make it, you already have." Very little in our lives go as planned. It's what we discover in the detours that make life, life. I'm am typing this on my phone because the nook and the hotels router are not on speaking terms. So what else is new?!? So if it's hard to read please blame it on my small screen space. Spain is very old, very proud, very beautiful. The camino is a way. Not "the" way. But "a"way to see things through a different lens. We are not surrounded in America by ancient walls around our cities or buildings that have stood their ground for centuries. It's comforting to know we aren't the first, the last or the only of our kind. In all those centuries it is probably safe to say little has gone as planned. So we are in pretty good company to learn how to roll with the punches. And leave something beautiful behind. Blessings on all of you!!!