Snippets from Simon

  Picture: From Better Reading's Podcast with Leigh Sales. Podcast episode link here . So, having returned from the Portuguese Camino (Camino Portugues), I no longer trudge the trails of Portugual and Spain.  Yet, I continue the walk of life. As I walk, I look and listen - on good days, that is. This is a post I did not want to write and yet I found myself needing to do so. I saw the ads for Leigh Sales' book. I was a bit curious. But I put the curiosity aside. As often is the case, I was listening to the Better Reading Podcast with Cheryl Akle . She interviewed Sales about this book: Any Ordinary Day . The curiosity came back around the corner like a mischievous mate inviting me to an adventure. Then, after dinner one night, my channel-flicking landed on Gardening Australia where, Costa was working in the garden of Leigh Sales! I was avoiding the book, yet it kept coming up. I was avoiding it because my impression of Leigh Sales from 7.30 (The Weeknight Austral...

Hiding from Learned and Clever and Revealing to Children The day that we got our Camino Credentiale, the official note that you have completed the walk, we also went to the 12n Pilgrims Mass at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. It was a simple Mass but a profound one that included the swinging of the great thurible at the end of Mass. But the other thing that struck me was the Gospel of the day on Saturday 6 October. It was Luke 10:17-24. To save you looking it up, it was about the disciples returning to Jesus after being on mission. Jesus praises God that what the disciples learned was hidden from learned and clever and yet revealed to children. He then tells them they are blessed for what they have seen. This is a profound message for the Camino Way. To walk the Camino you do not need to be learned or clever. You do not need to do courses. But, if you have the open eyes and ears of wonder that a child has, you will discover much. It will be reveale...