"How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?"

[Andrea Innes-Michailov]

Hi Russ, I really liked what you wrote.  It is true that God speaks to us in
many different ways.  I know the closer to nature I get (and I am so far
from it now) the more I am able to hear the messages.  I try to not watch tv
too much, avoid commercials, get quiet time, to be more in touch with the
the connection between all things. Yet, more and more I feel further and
further from myself and these special messages.  How is that possible?  I
hope I'll find an answer on the camino but I also know I must begin to
listen now.

"Tangled up in Blue"

Andrea

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Russ Irwin
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 2:34 AM
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: while on the Camino
>
>
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:11:38 -0500, Channing wrote:
>
> >Russ, I had a near identical moment as yours while walking out
> of Astorga.
> >It was right after September 11th.  Literally out of the blue Bob Dylan's
> >song (popularized by Peter, Paul and Mary) from the 60's, "Blowin' In the
> >Wind" started playing over and over in my head  -  esp. the part
> about "How
> >many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just
> doesn't see?".
>
> While I was never a Bob Dylan fan, that particular song is one of
> my all time favorites. And it is
> still so true. So many of us blind ourselves to those things we
> don't want to see. God speaks to us
> in many different ways and can use the whole universe to do so.
> Our answers may just be blowing in
> the wind - or they may be in the words of a poem we read, the
> sound of the waves on the shore of the
> ocean, in the words of the next song we hear, in the scene of the
> next movie we watch, in that
> 'silent voice' we all have in our minds, in a beautiful painting
> that we see, etc. Just look back
> through your own life and I suspect you will see how true this may be.
>
> Russ
>