- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances SJPP to SdC Oct/Nov 2015
Frances Burgos toSdC March/April 2016
W. Highland Way August 2016
Camino Somewhere September 2017
So, here we roll into the Christmas season.
I have always found that you--my forum friends--pretty much get me at this point. Those of you who like me, like me well. Those of you who don't cut a respectfully wide birth around my posts. I thank you for that--both groups.
Camino de Santiago has been a very healthy experience for me. You probably remember that I began training for my first journey--in October of 2015--a year prior, when I had battled my way through a major depression, after losing both parents in short order (close together).
I came back with a healthier mindset, a fitter body, and exciting experiences. It was a great time for me, and I was alone. Alone is a very comfortable place for me, most of the time.
My second journey was not as good, shorter and harder with an online companion. Lesson learned.
I've had an additional long journey--to Scotland. That journey, with my husband--my 2nd husband, I should add--was delightful, with long arduous walks, challenges, and more cultural joys (food! midgies! kilts! castles!).
And in a week, I take a journey of the heart.
My ex husband and I parted ways, after twelve years, in 2001. I left him behind in Cambodia, where we had established a publishing company. God, I loved that man. But we needed to part, and part we did.
He had a freak accident on 7 December, the day on which Americans all recognize the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was three days away from a flight home to the USA to be at his dying mother's bedside. In brief, he drowned. I won't belabor the detail, as it is heartbreaking.
So on the 16th, I make the long journey from Oregon to P Penh Cambodia, where his family and friends await me--I am that special, which makes me feel loved and appreciated.
Thanks for listening. Too much. All too much.
I have always found that you--my forum friends--pretty much get me at this point. Those of you who like me, like me well. Those of you who don't cut a respectfully wide birth around my posts. I thank you for that--both groups.
Camino de Santiago has been a very healthy experience for me. You probably remember that I began training for my first journey--in October of 2015--a year prior, when I had battled my way through a major depression, after losing both parents in short order (close together).
I came back with a healthier mindset, a fitter body, and exciting experiences. It was a great time for me, and I was alone. Alone is a very comfortable place for me, most of the time.
My second journey was not as good, shorter and harder with an online companion. Lesson learned.
I've had an additional long journey--to Scotland. That journey, with my husband--my 2nd husband, I should add--was delightful, with long arduous walks, challenges, and more cultural joys (food! midgies! kilts! castles!).
And in a week, I take a journey of the heart.
My ex husband and I parted ways, after twelve years, in 2001. I left him behind in Cambodia, where we had established a publishing company. God, I loved that man. But we needed to part, and part we did.
He had a freak accident on 7 December, the day on which Americans all recognize the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was three days away from a flight home to the USA to be at his dying mother's bedside. In brief, he drowned. I won't belabor the detail, as it is heartbreaking.
So on the 16th, I make the long journey from Oregon to P Penh Cambodia, where his family and friends await me--I am that special, which makes me feel loved and appreciated.
Thanks for listening. Too much. All too much.
