Theme 160: Camino (kah·MEE·noh) | Way/Path

An unhurried pace that is patient, open, undefended, and humble is a force - especially in this time.

Walk it. Make your stops. Reach back. This moment only once. Never again. Let’s make it count.

You are a person on a path, on a journey with ancestors behind you and people ahead of you who need what only you can give.

The only thing that is being asked of me, of you, or any of us is that we fulfill our purpose adn we rise to meet one another and our camino.

Everything is available to you in this journey at any time and you need to believe that.

The camino is not a straight line. It never was. The path is not fixed. You are not fixed. The conditions will change because they always do. But you have agency in the direction at any moment.

The path is not later. It’s here and it's now.

Choosing to be fully present, refusing to be numb, choosing to create, to be here with each other, connection. That is not passive. That is our form of defiance.

Your path is not going to look like mine.

I am not special. I am not the exception to the rule. I am proof that the rule is kind of a lie y’all.

We don’t have to wait for permission. We can build what we need and we can bring it to the people around us with us.

The community has built parallel systems for when the journey gets rough.

I want you to know that that performance cost you’re paying is not evidence that you do not belong. It is evidence that the room needs to expand.

I’m borrowing it from the Dalai Lama, so you know it’s good shit.

Sometimes the camino can be a total pain in the ass.

Once you have youre ikigai, the road begins to meet you magically.

You already know what your ikigai is, and you’ve known for a while.

When the salsa comes on, you don’t deny that. That’s a non-negotiable.

Here’s the beautiful thing about Ikigai,it shifts with you as you move along your journey. It’s not static. It evolves with you.

You own the people you love your honesty, especially when you’re scared.

Sometimes you get to choose those stops that you make but you also get to choose how low you’re going to stay in each of them.

The road is full of stops and you can make whatever you want out of it.

What are you doing while the path changes underneath you?

The limitations tht we’ve accepted as outs are also not fixed.

Nothing is fixed. Not your feelings right now, not the obstacles, not the conditions. All of that is changeable.

Sometimes in life, we grip tight. We try to force the path to be whatever we want it to be and teh path just keeps doing whatever it’s gonna do.

The clay is going to do what the clay is going to do. And the Camino is similar.

The more the creative community built around me, the more it needed a place to gather.

I built a community around me and I did that by helping other creatives to build the business side of their businesses.

I had this fire that I had inside of me that I felt like I had kept having to dim over and over and over again to fit in places.

If something gets hard, I just double down and work harder. And the harder you work, the more you feel like you’re getting ahead.

That map can show you where they went. What it cannot show you is where you will go.

When we were little someone hands us a map. And for some people, that map comes with extra weight.

I’ve spent the majority of my life learning that those things were not detours. Those were the actual journey.

I spent my whole life thinking about sacrifice. About what it means that someone gave everything so that you could be standing here to have to opportunity that you have today.

It was this energy that flowed through me to the people I loved to keep them safe and alive and fed.

We just got to put all the money together. Everything goes into the pot. Everyone’s contributing. No one’s really thinking about it. You just kind of do it.

I thought I came here to play music. Now I know I came here to be played by it.

How do we know where we're going if we don't know where we've been?

العمل هو الوسيلة وليس الغاية