Day 100o: Well met on Mount Gozo … (July 23, 2019)
And then it was that we three made it quite easily to the top of Mt. Gozo, where we sat under the shade of a beautiful tree on that glorious Santiago-overlooking promontory, and hung out like decades-old friends while sipping cold beers and sharing vegan leftovers that the meal Aron had cooked up the night before. And then in the midst of that already-splendid reverie, Luca – who I had met in Roncevalles some three weeks before – sauntered up to me to take a Polaroid picture of the Peace Pilgrim* and share the same warm hug that all Great Friends are due …
“I look back now upon my life and finally realize that the gift of any true Friendship is that the other sees you not the way others might see you or even the way you might well see yourself. No, a true Friend is the one who sees you simultaneously both as who you already truly are AND as the one you can indeed fluidly become.” ~ via Robin Jones Gunn
*Yes, he actually brought an actual Polaroid camera with him on his pilgrimage!
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