176/499 … on looking Right (10/01/08)
“Communicating with the Divine” …
Yesterday, while we were eating lunch, a man who appeared to be homeless approached us and asked for money. I gave him a few Euros and we chatted a bit before he ambled away. He didn’t go too far, though, and I noticed that he had the air of a traveler about him — not that of a Camino pilgrim, mind you, but that of a Traveler; someone who actually LIVES a nomadic existence. He simply seemed calm — somehow smoothly at One with his surroundings. Anyway, as he was departing, he came back to our table and gave me this car-radio antenna. It was wrapped in its original packaging ad everything! I gratefully accepted this bizarre and Wonder-full gift, and wore it on my pack for many days thereafter.
“If you are facing in the right direction,
all you need to do is keep on walking.”
~ Buddhist saying
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