Day 089q: Another almost Adoption … (July 12, 2019)
I was getting quite weary in the latter parts of that afternoon, and had set my mind on trudging all the way to the larger town of Fromista, where I was sure I would be able to to find lodging for the night. And yet while that city was eventually entered, and while its larger size did present many more potential opportunities for receiving welcome & a place to rest, none of the latter was even remotely forthcoming. Indeed, I stopped into at least a half dozen hostels along the main thoroughfare that day, and every single one of them turned me away – many with outright derision, if not unsettled scorn. Even the churches I found were all closed up tight for the day. Solace was nowhere to be found, and I started to amble onward out of town when I passed by Albergue de Luz and decided to give it a knock. I met with Gabriel, the hostel owner. He was immediately sympathetic – definitely to my situation , and ostensibly as well to my cause – and yet repeated the same refrain I had heard so many times already that afternoon: “I’m so sorry, but we are all full for the night.” That said, he told me to sit tight for a bit and began to make a few phone calls, eventually contacting the Municipal Gite in the next town down the road (Poblacion) and persuading the matriarch there to offer me a bed for the night. Buoyed by his kind efforts and enthusiastic demeanor (and appreciating as well the small food bag that was given to me by his wife Anita), I headed out the door and back out onto The Way. Poblacion was supposedly only another 3km from town, and I set forth thereto with a renewed vigor in my step, but only after pausing to give my homeless friends Victor & Eva the two apples Anita had only just given me …
“There are two Truths to Kindness – 01) Kindness is only potent when it is in some way uncomfortable or inconvenient, and 02) every moment is the perfect moment for Kindness. Indeed, you cannot ever do an act kindness at the wrong time or in the wrong place. Now is always the time for Kindness and here is always the place, for we can never know how soon it will be too late to give the same or have the same received.” ~ inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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