Date: 2026-07-28
AO: Mastodon
Q: Da Vinci ,
PAX: Mr Roboto, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Dumpster, Stock boy, The wet burrito, LeMond, Da Vinci, Tenderfoot (Oak Park) FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Conditions: muggy
WOR: follow the leader to Journey Don’t Stop Believing
The Thang:
Santiago de Compostella
Soundtrack from Journey of course
WOR: stretch to Don’t Stop Believing
The Thang:
Start at Cluny monastery in France (soundtrack Faithfully)
Merkens and American Hammers with Coupon
Take Coupons to Moissac, you see the beautiful https://www.wga.hu/html_m/zgothic/1romanes/po-12c11/05f_1100.html of Jeremiah on the south portal (on grass) Skull crushers and BBSU with coupons to Who’s Crying Now
Take Coupons to base of Hill
Curls to exhaustion then up the hill to Wheel in the Sky
Leave the coupons
Meseta is 220 kms – scout run, Any Way You Want It and Ask the Lonely
We arrive at Santiago de Compostela
Burpee until everyone makes a foul shot (keep burpeeing after your make it) (with time remaning)
44 flutters for St. James dying in AD 44, additional ab exercises
Moleskine
I gave a moleskin from this book and tried to relate is to St. James on Saturday and Santiago de Compostela. Then I finished it since than and realized to my surprise it ends with exactly that! Here is the passage:
“In 2019, at the not so young age of 55, I had a burning meaning question on my mind for which I couldn’t find an answer. I had just resigned from a chief executive job that had totally consumed me for the past eleven years. I was completely bunred out and had no idea what the future had in store, but deeply craved something more meaningful in my work than I had ever done before.
To find an answer I turned to the Camino de Santiago,… for more than a thousand years, people have done it when searching for life’s meaning and purpose. Ester my wife came with me. Each day on the Camino was like the last… New walked 20 miles, thought, and prayed,. No devices. When pilgrims met, they greeted each other simply with Buen camino.
May people say the Camino has mystical properties. They say that if you make the pilgrimage with an intention, you will find what you seek as you finish at the cathedral .. and indeed I found what I was seeking., resting deep in my right hemisphere.
On reflection over the subsequent months and years, I realized that I had it backward. I thought I was seeking my life’s meaning… but in truth, I realized I had been sought all along by my life’s meaning, and the pilgrimage had simply allowed me to see it by stripping away the barriers of my complicated, distracting, messy life, and living in an old-fashioned way: without technology, in nature, with my soulmate, asking big questions, and suffering and plenty of physical pain.
If you want to find meaning of your life, you must treat life like the Camin0 – a pilgrimage that opens your mind and heart. That’s when your meaning will find you. Buen Camino”
(Arthur Brooks, https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593545427?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback, 244-245).
COT for parents, PAX affected by storms, Gigolo and family
Tags: Mastodon, Mr Roboto, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Dumpster, Stock boy, The wet burrito, LeMond, Da Vinci, Tenderfoot (Oak Park)
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