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Hi!I' Dave Galvin member.
I'm 'booked' to fly from Cairns, Australia via Japan to Paris on 1st April this year.
I am 67. This time last year I was recovering from a smashed pelvis. The prognosis was that I would only be able to walk with sticks - and not far.
Last week I walked 25km (with a bit of jogging to change the muscle groups used.) Too hot and very boring in this dry savannah where we live.
I heard about the Camino on the radio last July on the local radio. Quite simply I was told to go. No big voice, thunder, epiphany.
The following week my wife of 40 years, Val, bought me a Spanish dictionary, I found a basic Spanish book in the library and have spent many happy hours learning basic Spanish. It is so like the Latin of my school and novitiate days.
But- Val has now decided I can't go; she too wants a holiday. I agree:- I decided to borrow $10,000 from the bank on low interest - house as security giving us $5,000 each.
Payback - easy- I stop, have stopped spending $100 a week on beer. That would repay the interest and capital with money left over.
Sorry for the above but if I really am being thoughtless and selfish there would be no merit in going on the Camino expecting a good spiritual outcome. My hope of returning home as a less selfish person would be as dust and ashes. Val would have gone if I go without her good will.
On the the other hand, if the plane I booked 6 months ago goes without me, well, It will take a long time to recover my fragile sanity. (asperges syndrome etc). Any moral theologians out there? Help - podria ayuda me! Dave.
I'm 'booked' to fly from Cairns, Australia via Japan to Paris on 1st April this year.
I am 67. This time last year I was recovering from a smashed pelvis. The prognosis was that I would only be able to walk with sticks - and not far.
Last week I walked 25km (with a bit of jogging to change the muscle groups used.) Too hot and very boring in this dry savannah where we live.
I heard about the Camino on the radio last July on the local radio. Quite simply I was told to go. No big voice, thunder, epiphany.
The following week my wife of 40 years, Val, bought me a Spanish dictionary, I found a basic Spanish book in the library and have spent many happy hours learning basic Spanish. It is so like the Latin of my school and novitiate days.
But- Val has now decided I can't go; she too wants a holiday. I agree:- I decided to borrow $10,000 from the bank on low interest - house as security giving us $5,000 each.
Payback - easy- I stop, have stopped spending $100 a week on beer. That would repay the interest and capital with money left over.
Sorry for the above but if I really am being thoughtless and selfish there would be no merit in going on the Camino expecting a good spiritual outcome. My hope of returning home as a less selfish person would be as dust and ashes. Val would have gone if I go without her good will.
On the the other hand, if the plane I booked 6 months ago goes without me, well, It will take a long time to recover my fragile sanity. (asperges syndrome etc). Any moral theologians out there? Help - podria ayuda me! Dave.