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Sad Loss for Australian Peregrina

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cycled from Pamplona Sep 2015;Frances, walked from St Jean May/June 2017. Plans to walk Porto 2020
Sad news has just reached the Australian Camino society. Our good friend Ailsa Piper has advised the passing of her husband Peter Curtin. Peter will be well known to many Australians for his films; (he died on 19 May.)

Ailsa - our deepest sympathies.:(
 
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Mike - thank you for letting us know this sad news.
I'd like to add my sympathy and also to let Ailsa and her family know that my thoughts are with them at this difficult time.
 
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The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.
Always sad to hear of 'one of us' who has suffered loss - my understanding is that her husband was not only loved by her but by the many who knew him.
I wish her well.

Gone From My Sight

I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze and starts
for the blue ocean.

She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come
to mingle with each other.

Then, someone at my side says;
"There, she is gone!"

"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull
and spar as she was when she left my side
and she is just as able to bear her
load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment when someone
at my side says, "There, she is gone!"
There are other eyes watching her coming,
and other voices ready to take up the glad
shout;
"Here she comes! Here she comes!"
And that is dying.

Henry Van Dyke, a 19th Century clergyman, educator, poet, and religious writer
 

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