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  1. Kerstinh47

    I Need my Morning Coffee :)

    I got off-trail one morning following café signs instead of yellow trail markers....after my coffee, I set off again, only to be set right by a thoughtful garbage truck driver. Later that day, I stopped and was enjoying a cold beer outside of a café and a garbage truck pulled in the parking lot...
  2. Kerstinh47

    Name the one thing you could never have prepared for

    Perhaps it was a reiki session - it was done by another pilgrim in the courtyard garden of a small cafe in that little village. :))
  3. Kerstinh47

    Name the one thing you could never have prepared for

    I have had a little slideshow of memories upon reading the OP's question...but one stood out. In Larrasoana, defeated physically and emotionally (temporarily, I learned as that was an oft-repeating cycle early on), a woman asked to 'read' my energy... um, ok. I was so surprised to feel...
  4. Kerstinh47

    Pilgrim shame

    shame. guilty of it; both personal and projected. the shame that takes a grip is the one you hold yourself in. *best to work it out and then LET GO OF IT embarrassment. the best kind is the kind you share at a loving gathering at the end of a hard day. *best to work it out with a shared giggle...
  5. Kerstinh47

    Time between idea and start

    Just about 1.5 years from dreaming to walking. Buen Camino!
  6. Kerstinh47

    A backpack is enough

    Kanga - I love your light tone, and it makes me smile. I also have an undying desire to down-size post camino- but I have a husband - and I don't want to down-size his life, too when he is perfectly happy status quo. I get frustrated now and then sharing the same home we have shared for years...
  7. Kerstinh47

    What's the Difference between a Pilgrimage and a Long Walk?

    good point, Mark - and I didn't say what my reasons pre-camino were - I don't even know if I implied it - but for me it was a hard-to-describe in words walk with Spirit.
  8. Kerstinh47

    What's the Difference between a Pilgrimage and a Long Walk?

    Interesting. I don't know that I would've undertaken a 800 km long walk without the (potential) pilgrimage part :) I also know now, post-pilgrimage, that if it had been a long-pleasant-walk, I wouldn't have completed it. That is one angle. I had to learn the difference - even though that is...
  9. Kerstinh47

    Soulset

    so deeply moving and beautiful! I just recited it to my husband under dark carolina skies with a background of crickets and frogs ( and soft David Gray playing in the background). thank you so much for this remembrance and tribute!
  10. Kerstinh47

    Has your camino experience changed who you are as a person?

    yes. my pre-camino-self wants to spell it all out and my post-camino-self is satisfied to say 'yes'
  11. Kerstinh47

    Where did you walk today?

    I'm loving this thread - and am mildly envious of the photos posted contrasted with the very gentle terrain of the sandhills in which I live! I miss the vistas of Spain, and covet each beautiful photo :) thank you, perigrinos/as.
  12. Kerstinh47

    What are your Music Playlist favorites?

    My top five (not scientific, here) ended up being in no particular order: Thank You, Alanis Morissette The Luckiest, Ben Folds One Love, Bob Marley Galileo, Indigo Girls Copperline, James Taylor Buen Camino!
  13. Kerstinh47

    Explaining the camino

    Jen - I think you've hit on something here. I think I felt the same way, but didn't put it into words here before my camino. I had amazing support from (here, of course) my husband and kids, and lots of blank looks beyond that. Do it anyway. After a day walking, pushing yourself, or sitting...
  14. Kerstinh47

    Tell me about your Return Home

    Hi Nancy. I thought I would be elated to return home; and I was for the most part. I find that I seek and enjoy solitude, meditation, and stillness more frequently after my return. There is a quiet depth of 'knowing' that has grown inside - perhaps it is faith, perhaps it is lessening of fear...
  15. Kerstinh47

    What do you expect of yourself to be/become a „real pilgrim“?

    Such questions as the OP brought up invoke so many responses. As many have said already, any kind of open debate can become quickly irritating; yet focused perspective on the self can be stirringly, personally provocative. Why do we do or not do what we do? It's a personal journey. I didn't...
  16. Kerstinh47

    Magic Moments / Lessons on the Camino

    One more - :rolleyes:. The same day the garbage truck driver helped me, I met a woman from Australia that afternoon while resting. She was doing her walk and recovering emotionally from a dissolved marriage.... The next day I struggled and cried much of the day and at some point realized that...
  17. Kerstinh47

    Magic Moments / Lessons on the Camino

    One morning - I don't recall exactly which village I slept in - I had to begin walking without the comforting cup of café con leche I had grown accustomed to and was on the lookout for the nearest cup. After a few kilometers I reached the next village and began to follow handwritten signs that...
  18. Kerstinh47

    When did your the chocolate / sugar cravings finally stop???

    The best part of chocolate on my camino as a previous poster has said was sharing it post-walk and making new friends as we broke pieces off the bar and smiled at each other- happy for however many kilometers were behind us for that day!
  19. Kerstinh47

    Before or after Camino

    First of all, enjoy all of your planning and dreaming and scheming! I agree with MichaelC, my thoughts were so firmly planted on getting started ....and in hindsight, I would take a day or two to adjust to the time change if I'm fortunate enough to return to the camino. I took five days in...
  20. Kerstinh47

    What to Expect on the Camino (for prospective pilgrims)

    I love that you ended with a quote from Acacio; I spent a night there - entered cold, discouraged and looking at my feet... I colored a mandala, warmed up (body & soul), and like you, enjoyed a memorable dinner with Acacio & Orietta plus pilgrims. It was one of my most memorable resting places...

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