I didn't know

[Diane Grust]

In a message dated 2/5/02 6:39:58 PM, kesatotaSHAW.CA writes:

<<         The way I see it is this, they could write all they want about me
as
long as it is in a good light, and like you, I too would be delighted.
Would I like to know what is being written about me before it goes to
print, I'll give it more thought.
 >>

I thought about this and have to say I don't agree and well her is my logic.
I had a lot of what I would call very intimate conversations about life and
the meaning of it,  why I was on the camino et al.  I spoke totally openly
and honestly and I can tell you trying to grapple with where these "issues"
fit in with the rest of my life.  I think the camino offers you that the time
and space to think these deep things.  I recall many such conversations such
as this as the best souvenirs of the camino (more like my only ones as other
that the credential and compostela and some saffron which is nearly finished
I did not buy one souvenir of the camino as I had plenty inside).  Anyway
that said would I like to see my thoughts, feeling etc. in a publication for
anyone to read....I would have to say probably not.  To me it is a privacy
issue.  In other words if Shirley MacClaine wants to write a book about her
relationship with Charlemange and the Camino then it is her right but not
mine to write I was on the camino and met Shirley MacClaine and she told me
the story that her and Charlemange were.....in a past life.  What also
springs to mind is that book which was basically someone's doctoral
dissertation on why people did the camino (can't remember who wrote it)  but
I do recall that each story was told in a very vague way without names so
that someone's personal history was not revealed eventhough these people knew
the purpose of the project.

As for pictures, as a photographer when I posted my pictures of my camino in
yahoo groups I only posted pictures without people in them or of myself with
two exceptions which were of the person who ran the refugio and in both cases
they asked me to take the picture and for a copy of the photo and so  I feel
like I had their consent.  One of my favorite photos is of my friend E and
she does not like the way it makes her nose look.     So I guess it is just
an ingrained reflex to not use people's photographs.

just my thoughts
your mileage may vary
Diane