Well, the publishing houses, called Shaia Sophia House, myself along with Nora Sophia. You've put books out? Like, yeah, so yeah, talk a bit on that, because there's a lot going on. So you started a publishing house, not in just words alone. So for the topic to the end, though, you've you buried the lead. She's like, Who would I go with? I was like take your sister's? Who cares? Just go, it'll be fine. I found out last yesterday that my what my mom, her dream is to go to Paris and spend some time and I was like, Mom, you're so close to retirement just go. It's not all the toys of Spain that attracted me it's something about the simple life here. So the idea was playing in my mind, but I have to say that when lockdown happened and I was here ,in one location, and couldn't move around and really discovered I love being here. And when I walk into that village, I said, someday I want to live here. And the very last village I walked into, which is here at the ocean is the village I'm in now.
So in 2012, I walked the Camino for myself and I walked almost sixty days. So that was the plan to stay in Spain longer term before the pandemic or is this like a pandemic induced Spanish version of Stockholm syndrome implied by a country. That's a different temperament altogether. Yeah, I'm not used to thinking of myself as as having reached a certain age, but I'm certainly not used to not just standing in line like everybody else. People look at my grey hair and they step aside. I have to adjust to the fact that when I go to a store, and people here still are lining up to go into a store because there are still restrictions about the number of people to go into a store. One of the things I love here is the care for people for each other. So Spain intoxicated you while it kept you because of the pandemic. How much trouble is it to get renewed every year? Because I know how much trouble you went through to get that to begin with. And I had just, just, just as of two days ago, got my national identity card, which makes me an official one year resident of Spain. And so I came back to the States and went through the process to get a residency visa, which is one year at a time. And then I really discovered that I wanted to live you. If you needed food or medicine, you call the police and they delivered it to you. And lockdown here meant you couldn't go outside of your house. Well, what's new is that I got I was in Spain under lockdown, last year, for 100 days. What is new for you in say, it was before the pandemic, so what is new for you? But I don't remember when we recorded that. What has been new? I don't even remember the last time that we recorded.
I'm going to try to do my best to not have the swallow sounds in this. Yes, for everybody who can't see I'm in Spain. I really enjoy that I have you as a sounding board when needed.
Gosh, Seth, I've been looking forward to this. But without further ado, let's make this thing happen. We talked about baptism in the context of it a slightly different and you'll hear me kind of tell the story of that as we get going. So Alexander John Shaia is back on the show. That way, if you want to check out (on them) you can. I don't want to do any announcements, because I'll do those at the end. Welcome back to the Can I Say This At Church podcast, I'm Seth your host, as usual. When we're trying to form a new way of understanding God, which is a God of abundance, a God of generosity, a God of inclusion there's a horrible anguish about norming, this new experience.