Personal Acts on The Camino

[MrGary]

Dear fellow Pilgrims and Camino enthusiasts,

I am all set to embark on my first Camino next year and I can’t wait for that adventure. I want to share a personal act that I plan to complete at Finisterre.
I live in New Jersey, just a few blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and I picked up a triangle shaped stone out of the ocean as I walked the shore.
So, my Act is this- after watching the Sunset at Finisterre- I am going to return that rock back to the Atlantic- just on the other side.
I would love to hear your story that you are willing to share- your own personal acts of triumph - big or small. It can be anything - a gesture of gratitude, a farewell to something or a new beginning.

Gary

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Last I've heard the rock I tossed into the ocean at Finisterre still hasn't managed to swim back home to Cape Cod.

 

[nilesite]

Give it a minute.

 

[Itsnever2late]

Dear fellow Pilgrims and Camino enthusiasts,

I am all set to embark on my first Camino next year and I can’t wait for that adventure. I want to share a personal act that I plan to complete at Finisterre.
I live in New Jersey, just a few blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and I picked up a triangle shaped stone out of the ocean as I walked the shore.
So, my Act is this- after watching the Sunset at Finisterre- I am going to return that rock back to the Atlantic- just on the other side.
I would love to hear your story that you are willing to share- your own personal acts of triumph - big or small. It can be anything - a gesture of gratitude, a farewell to something or a new beginning.

Gary

Good luck climbing up the rocks after sunset.
See coastal pictures https://www.pilgrimagetraveler.com/finisterre.html

 

[Still Searching]

Dear fellow Pilgrims and Camino enthusiasts,

I am all set to embark on my first Camino next year and I can’t wait for that adventure. I want to share a personal act that I plan to complete at Finisterre.
I live in New Jersey, just a few blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and I picked up a triangle shaped stone out of the ocean as I walked the shore.
So, my Act is this- after watching the Sunset at Finisterre- I am going to return that rock back to the Atlantic- just on the other side.
I would love to hear your story that you are willing to share- your own personal acts of triumph - big or small. It can be anything - a gesture of gratitude, a farewell to something or a new beginning.

Gary

My "personal act" was a metaphor for my life, also requiring my presence at Finesterre. My Camino dream evolved from my anticipated retirement. I planned it for years! I am a nurse by profession and when I was young and my career was new I worked in Boston. I've always had an internal tug to "Go to the ends of the Earth". While in Boston that led me to venturing solo to Nantucket Island for a few days and renting a bicycle to cover the whole island (my memory was that it was 13 miles wide). I ended up on the easternmost point at a sandy spot to see a little sign posted in the sand reading, " Spain 3,000 miles". Almost 50 years later I felt the need after my Camino to stand at Finesterre at sunset to reflect on my entire nursing journey - of course looking west now. This reverie was so moving and deep as I reflected on moments from my career! I felt such personal fulfillment and peace watching that sunset - at another "end of the Earth"!

 

[PedroG]

Mine was to locate and restore a small cairn in a Rioja vineyard which my wife and some fellow pilgrims had built in memory of a friend who died on a training walk in preparation for doing the Camino in 2015. In 2020 I made sure the cairn was in a good state of repair.

 

[shefollowsshells]

Dear fellow Pilgrims and Camino enthusiasts,

I am all set to embark on my first Camino next year and I can’t wait for that adventure. I want to share a personal act that I plan to complete at Finisterre.
I live in New Jersey, just a few blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and I picked up a triangle shaped stone out of the ocean as I walked the shore.
So, my Act is this- after watching the Sunset at Finisterre- I am going to return that rock back to the Atlantic- just on the other side.
I would love to hear your story that you are willing to share- your own personal acts of triumph - big or small. It can be anything - a gesture of gratitude, a farewell to something or a new beginning.

Gary

I/ we adopt old and dilapidated animals, we see death in the family a lot due to this. Each Camino we make it Muxia to throw in a SCOOP ( I can only surrender a scoop of them) of each ones ashes. I’ve done a few Caminos with kids and they’ve been instructed to throw me in there one day ( they can decide if a scoop or if they want to get rid of all of me in one place)
The kids take great pride in decorating a bag from felt with stitching for each trip.

 

[WGroleau]

A volunteer hospitalera was waiting for some of her mother’s ashes to arrive from USA. Unfortunately, they arrived one or two days after she had to go home. But the rest of us went up on a mountain, had a short ceremony, tossed the ashes to the wind, and stuck a paper “gravestone” on a tree. One of us took video of the whole thing and sent it to her.