Brock { Abroad }

Taken from my journal on The Camino de Santiago:

“Imagine’ by John Lennon is playing right now as I sit at a café next to a park overlooking the next village I’ve yet to enter. Although I don’t exactly miss music while walking during the day, either. In the end, it just makes me appreciate the sound all the more when it finally does enter my ears. What a simple way  to better appreciate a luxury such as music.! I’m learning to appreciate everything a little more on this camino, actually. Now I get it when all the grown-ups say thinks like: “You know, it really is… the little things in life!”

Listening to the words of  the song, I am reminded of an old mentor I’d had. As artistic director of a non-profit theatre company for youth, I’d spent a good amount of  my last two years school working on a show with her. She was a good soul who, on the night before Christmas, lit a candle as we joined hands and said our own little prayers for the world built  passionately together under her guidance. I still remember all the things she’d read to us as she shared her immense and inspirational spirit. I was grateful for her, and other people who had guided me along the path at some point or another. It was then I decided I’d write letters to a handful of these people who, at some point,  I’d  kept in my closest circle. I can feel their spirits on this path at trying moments. I at least owe them a ‘thank-you.’

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