Focus

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Hawk Focus 2017 Aileigh

You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus

By Mark Twain

What a great way to begin: Aileigh passed the day of testing that marked nearly four years earning her Black Belt.  Then a good meal with great people, and a leisurely drive through traffic to the airport.

A long day layover in Madrid, quiet and calm (and tired).

Data, because we knew I would:

I understand that the Pilgrims Office in St Jean is currently seeing around 240 Pilgrims daily. If St Jean is the starting point for roughly 12% of pilgrims as recorded by the Pilgrim Office, then perhaps a total of approximately 2,000 pilgrims will reach Santiago de Compostela with me that day.

And a Tewa poem

Oh our Mother the Earth,
oh our Father the Sky,
Your children are we, and with tired backs
We bring you the gifts that you love.

Then weave for us a garment of brightness.
May the warp be the bright light of morning;
May the fringes be the falling rain;
May the borders be the standing rainbow.

Thus weave for us a garment of brightness,
that we may walk fittingly where birds sing;
That we may walk fittingly where grass is green.
Oh our Mother the Earth, oh our Father the Sky.

Song of the Sky Loom – tewa song