Tag: camino de santiago
-
Still Walking, Thank You Very Much
A red hiking pole from the Camino de Santiago became my mother’s, then mine — and an unexpected conversation with a 90-year-old neighbor about why we refuse the cane.
-
Spiritual Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: My Only Regret
There was a theme that repeated itself in my second SR 8th House visit.I have the option of letting that theme repeat again now, as I have just entered my third year of an Eighth House Sun. As far as I can tell, I don’t have any more of these to “look forward to” in…
-
Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: The Fiscal Cliff, Safeguards, and the American Mindset
Five minutes after turning on the TV, I’d heard fear-mongering, so-called journalists screaming “fiscal cliff” at least 20 times. Ack! Not that I’m not concerned about our economy, but sometimes it seems it’s more fun for my fellow Americans, politicians in particular, to go into high-drama panic or either high-decible blame rather than roll up…
-
The Hardest Part of the Camino de Santiago: Return to Society
Mom and daughter walk the Camino de Santiago together – here at O Cebreiro Pass The hardest part of walking the Camino de Santiago was not walking all day in the elements, not gasping my way uphill or trying to keep from skidding downhill as my knees screamed at me, not scrounging for excess clothes…
-
Spiritual Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: You Can Never Go Back the Way You Came
You can dream, but you can never go back the way you came. Particularly if you are referring to a spiritual pilgrimage like the Camino de Santiago. We were only about 20 kilometers outside of Santiago de Compostela, our destination, when we began to notice an occasional backpacking pilgrim walking against the flow of traffic…
-
Hurricane Isaac Evacuation and Lessons from the Camino
Hurricane Isaac evacuation time? Yes? No? I’ve lived in the Niceville-Destin Florida area of the Gulf Coast since 1983, so I’m accustomed to making decisions about tropical storm and hurricane evacuations. By the time any tropical storm is at the door of the Gulf of Mexico, I have to start thinking about whether to stay…
-
Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: You Find What You Focus On…Good or Bad
Why did we get so upset last week? It wasn’t like him at all to behave the way I’d thought, and it wasn’t like me at all to behave the way he’d thought. It was like other people, though, and it was exactly like our worst fears, and that’s what we saw. It doesn’t really…
-
Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: Romantic Relationships
For those of you who have been patiently waiting this last month for me to blog about my pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, thanks for waiting! My boyfriend had been right: this journey was to be “an inflection point” in my life. Not a term I would have used but hey, engineers…what can I…
-
The Power of Gluten: Why Gluten-Free Will NEVER be a Fad Diet to Me
Before I headed out in May to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain as part of a spiritual pilgrimage, I had been off wheat gluten for close to a year, though I was noticing some weight gain in specific places after adding corn gluten to my diet about 3 times a week. Without wheat…
-
Journey and Pilgrimage: Finding the Straight Way Again
Midway through the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood, wandering, for the straight way had been lost. — Dante When Dante’s Divine Comedy opens in 1300 with those famous lines, the narrator himself is about 35, or–for a lifespan of 70 years–half-way through his life. But I’m not in…
