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Hello , I like the word " Camino Sick " . My wife did the Camino Franches in 2013 , last year we did Saria to Finesterre and this year I walked the Camino Franches and next year we are walking the Camino Portugese .There is a word in Portuguese called "saudade". It means when you, for example, want to see an old friend, your daughter, a girlfriend, a place or even a party. There is no word and other languages so embracing like this.
In English, the nearest you get is the word "missing". When I lived in Brghton/UK, they used to say I was "home sick" when I was talking about "saudade" and home.
Nowadays I'm "camino sick". How I miss the time I had there.
I had a plan to go back this year with my old man to walk from Sarria to SDC, but we didn't manage to go. Who knows next year.
Buen camino everyone!
How can you transfer that camino experience when you get home? Slow down? Commune with nature? Walking meditation? In a recent thread Brierly talks briefly about creating support at home.
....So I ask how do pilgrims make a camino last or take the lessons they learn home?
Hi , it all started for me with the Camino Franches walked by my wife in 2013 , we did all the training and preperation together.How can you transfer that camino experience when you get home? Slow down? Commune with nature? Walking meditation? In a recent thread Brierly talks briefly about creating support at home.
I haven't done a camino yet and the one I have planned in about 11 week's may not happen due to some medical issues. I don't see myself being so lucky as to doing a series of caminos. So I ask how do pilgrims make a camino last or take the lessons they learn home?
There is a word in Portuguese called "saudade". It means when you, for example, want to see an old friend, your daughter, a girlfriend, a place or even a party. There is no word and other languages so embracing like this.
In English, the nearest you get is the word "missing". When I lived in Brghton/UK, they used to say I was "home sick" when I was talking about "saudade" and home.
Nowadays I'm "camino sick". How I miss the time I had there.
I had a plan to go back this year with my old man to walk from Sarria to SDC, but we didn't manage to go. Who knows next year.
Buen camino everyone!
In 2012 I walked about the last 200 miles. After getting home (Southwest USA) I woke every morning wanting to walk--but nothing was the same. Went back in 2013 to walk the first 300+/-. Got sick with a nasty virus after about 50 miles, so had to give it up. Now, I'm going back September 2015 hoping to walk what I've not yet walked and hoping to walk from Santiago on to the ocean (Muxia). I learned a lot (about myself) and have written a personal essay about my two caminos thus far. I have to say, that probably not a day passes without me thinking about El Camino. It lives with me and in me. Maybe that is "saudade?"There is a word in Portuguese called "saudade". It means when you, for example, want to see an old friend, your daughter, a girlfriend, a place or even a party. There is no word and other languages so embracing like this.
In English, the nearest you get is the word "missing". When I lived in Brghton/UK, they used to say I was "home sick" when I was talking about "saudade" and home.
Nowadays I'm "camino sick". How I miss the time I had there.
I had a plan to go back this year with my old man to walk from Sarria to SDC, but we didn't manage to go. Who knows next year.
Buen camino everyone!
I hope you get to do it. I've been processing my first camino (2012) and my second camino (2013 aborted early because of illness) since that time. I've written a personal essay about those 2 caminos. I learned immeasurable things about myself both times--and yet, I am still processing and integrating them. I am returning this year to try to walk what I've not yet walked. But having said that, I don't think the camino is ever "done." As I said at the end of my essay, "There is a saying that a pilgrimage is a metaphor for life. El Camino does not end in Santiago. It follows you. It goes on ahead of you. It has to. It's the way, the road, the path, the journey. Sometimes with hesitation, grave doubt, resistance, sometimes in amazement and joy, I continue to walk it."How can you transfer that camino experience when you get home? Slow down? Commune with nature? Walking meditation? In a recent thread Brierly talks briefly about creating support at home.
I haven't done a camino yet and the one I have planned in about 11 week's may not happen due to some medical issues. I don't see myself being so lucky as to doing a series of caminos. So I ask how do pilgrims make a camino last or take the lessons they learn home?
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