BonitaHolland
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Starting 3rd Sep 2016
I'm interested in the range and variety of preparations (I note on this Forum someone preparing for 2017/18). For myself I was talking with a peer on a train travelling back from a particularly challenging 5 day residential course she said 'I've been thinking about walking the Camino one day' I was curious about the 'one day....' (she's 33). I'd travelled far and wide to remote places but had not ever thought of doing this Camino.
I'm 58 and in 2000 my mum gave me this gift she said very quietly looking out through a door into the Hospice gardens, 'I waited too long all my life, don't wait, I was always waiting for the right time to do things and I ran out of time, I never did the things I thought I'd do.'
She died aged 71 a few days later.... since then I've held these words in mind whenever making a decision. So on that train when I heard my friend's words I asked 'Why wait lets go!' That was February and here I am about to set off tomorrow for SJDPP, and my friend ....she's meeting me on the 9th Sep in Pamplona.... and we're walking to Santiago but taking a long time to do it (40 days plus) because we want to wake up each day and accept what the day brings good and bad and unexpected and inspiring and and and .... see you on the path. And mum my Camino began with your gift. Buen Camino.
I'm 58 and in 2000 my mum gave me this gift she said very quietly looking out through a door into the Hospice gardens, 'I waited too long all my life, don't wait, I was always waiting for the right time to do things and I ran out of time, I never did the things I thought I'd do.'
She died aged 71 a few days later.... since then I've held these words in mind whenever making a decision. So on that train when I heard my friend's words I asked 'Why wait lets go!' That was February and here I am about to set off tomorrow for SJDPP, and my friend ....she's meeting me on the 9th Sep in Pamplona.... and we're walking to Santiago but taking a long time to do it (40 days plus) because we want to wake up each day and accept what the day brings good and bad and unexpected and inspiring and and and .... see you on the path. And mum my Camino began with your gift. Buen Camino.