Hello Dear Steemians !! After a few days, here I am again. Holidays, computer in the service and also need internal and external silence. I rested a lot! Several days, almost twenty, to enjoy beautiful places of Barreal in long walks. I have also read a lot. The freedom of not having to meet schedules is wonderful !! I have devoted much to enjoy my traveling companion, Aycon, my beloved dog.
From what has been read and re-read, I find myself sharing in this post a concept that moves me.
It is from the book "Anam Cara", The Book of Celtic Wisdom, by John O`Donohue
I am not copy and paste but let me share this concept in textual form
"Celtic tradition has a beautiful conception of love and friendship. One of his fascinating ideas is the love of the soul, which in ancient Gaelic is anam cara, "Anam" means "soul" in Gaelic, and "cara" is "friendship." So "anam-cara" in the Celtic world is the "spiritual friend." In the primitive Celtic church anam was called face to a teacher, companion or spiritual guide.
At first it was a confessor to whom one revealed the most intimate and hidden of his life. The anam-cara could reveal the inner self, the mind and the heart. This friendship was an act of recognition and rootedness. When one had an anam cara, that friendship transcended conventions, morals and categories. One was united in an ancient and eternal way with the spiritual friend. This Celtic conception did not impose on the soul limitations of space or time. The soul knows no cages. It is a divine light that penetrates you and your other.
This nexus awakened and fostered a deep and special camaraderie. John Casiano says in his Colons that this bond between friends is indissoluble: "This, I say, is what can not break any chance, which can not cut or destroy any portion of time or space; Even death can not divide it »."
This book is wonderful! I feel that in this life I have three "Anam Cara". They are called Angel, Actress and Aycòn. Two wonderful humans and my beloved dog.
Today I will write about him.
I believe in reincarnation and I know that with my dog Aycòn we have traveled several lives together. He is quite ill and is already 14 years old (95 according to the calculation of the Veterinarian).
The two in front of the fireplace.
Receiving sound therapy with my Tibetan bowl.
He came into my life in a box of sneakers. It was a gift from my son for a birthday. It was really like a stuffed dog. Shaggy, soft and panzòn. I bought from the day we looked. It has been, in its time of pup, a calamity breaking things but was to be expected. Some nights I slept at the foot of my son's bed but most of these years he was inseparable with me. When I came to live in the Cordillera I brought him with me. Finally, after many years of department, I had a patio to run and enjoy. His last four years have been magnificent.
He get tired while he eat so I have to hold him.
Now he walks slow and often falls. On this holiday we have enjoyed the new firewood home. Sitting in front of the fire. I have sung him and I have given him "infinite graces" for all the love he gave us. I am also very much consenting to the meals. Meat, chicken and roasted sausages ... devours them!!
I will be reunited with my dear friend Aycon soul, I know. This mutual love, Anam Cara, as John O`Donohue defines it, has neither time nor space.
I'm having a hard time letting it go. The limit is physical pain. He does not have it for now.
Until next time!
A hug from the Andes!
The photos are from my personal album.
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