shefollowsshells
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Several alone and with children
I know this has been mentioned before, in fact I might have started the thread.
The connection of Le Puy route to the song The House of the Rising Sun.
But a strange coincidence, like so many things Camino...
I, like everyone else here, am licking my wounds with overseas travel halted for 18 months if not more.
A trip to Barcelona with hubby, but mostly a Portugal trip where I was leading 14 hikers, all dear friends to commence in March. I had planned every detail, and the canceling of it has been pretty depressing. A First World Problem I have to keep telling myself, with the guilt of course. I am a frontline worker, in an Emergency Room with four of my six kids just coming out of quarantine with a positive Corona Virus result. So I'm so over this...
So yesterday, amazingly, I was drawn to my blog. I have no social medial, no twitter,instgram, no facebook .( I had facebook for four days when a new dog 20 minutes after arriving to my home, stray-shelter-to my home, ran away, we got him back four days later). But I have my travel blog, which personally I felt is just ramblings and of little interest to anyone. Most entries typed quickly over a coffee break when I had wifi, never proofread, filled with misspellings and fat finger typos. BUT yesterday I found myself reading my Le Puy, GR10 to connect to the Norte blog. I've never read my blog. This is a hike I did with five of my six children, why only five? One has some pretty severe special needs so he stayed home with daddy, who thankfully works from home and allowed us to do this trip. This trip was four years ago, and was a four-month trip, hiking I think exactly three months and sleeping outside about 80 percent of the time. My youngest was 9, with a pack that weighed what mine did (if not more)... I was slightly in awe over this trip re-reading it yesterday, and pretty emotional at times.
I had just read my entry of Conques, where I sat with Jean Michel, another pilgrim, listening to the monk play the organ in the evening. Jean Michel would share he had cancer, with a prognosis that was not good while we sat in that pew. He also complimented my kids in that pew and his words were "they get it", words I have comfort in as I remember him saying it way back when. Then totally unexpected the monk ends with a thunderous version of the House of the Rising Sun!!!
While vacationing in Croatia, with kids, right before covid, I got a text from Jean Michel's number, it was his wife, who I had never met and knew little about, telling me he thought a lot about my family, the kids especially, that he spoke of us often, and she wanted me to know that he had just passed.
So reliving Conques last night was especially emotional.
So within minutes, I get over my newsfeed that Valentine of The Animals had died yesterday.
I am sharing this so other Le Puy lovers might want to ask Alexa to play, "The House of the Rising Sun, by the Animals, Volume Ten".... today...
wishing I was sitting in a pew in Conques...
Much love fellow Camino lovers,
...assured our paths will be there when the World is ready for us...
Neve
my blog is shefollowsshells.blogspot.com, with specific tabs for all things camino
The connection of Le Puy route to the song The House of the Rising Sun.
But a strange coincidence, like so many things Camino...
I, like everyone else here, am licking my wounds with overseas travel halted for 18 months if not more.
A trip to Barcelona with hubby, but mostly a Portugal trip where I was leading 14 hikers, all dear friends to commence in March. I had planned every detail, and the canceling of it has been pretty depressing. A First World Problem I have to keep telling myself, with the guilt of course. I am a frontline worker, in an Emergency Room with four of my six kids just coming out of quarantine with a positive Corona Virus result. So I'm so over this...
So yesterday, amazingly, I was drawn to my blog. I have no social medial, no twitter,instgram, no facebook .( I had facebook for four days when a new dog 20 minutes after arriving to my home, stray-shelter-to my home, ran away, we got him back four days later). But I have my travel blog, which personally I felt is just ramblings and of little interest to anyone. Most entries typed quickly over a coffee break when I had wifi, never proofread, filled with misspellings and fat finger typos. BUT yesterday I found myself reading my Le Puy, GR10 to connect to the Norte blog. I've never read my blog. This is a hike I did with five of my six children, why only five? One has some pretty severe special needs so he stayed home with daddy, who thankfully works from home and allowed us to do this trip. This trip was four years ago, and was a four-month trip, hiking I think exactly three months and sleeping outside about 80 percent of the time. My youngest was 9, with a pack that weighed what mine did (if not more)... I was slightly in awe over this trip re-reading it yesterday, and pretty emotional at times.
I had just read my entry of Conques, where I sat with Jean Michel, another pilgrim, listening to the monk play the organ in the evening. Jean Michel would share he had cancer, with a prognosis that was not good while we sat in that pew. He also complimented my kids in that pew and his words were "they get it", words I have comfort in as I remember him saying it way back when. Then totally unexpected the monk ends with a thunderous version of the House of the Rising Sun!!!
While vacationing in Croatia, with kids, right before covid, I got a text from Jean Michel's number, it was his wife, who I had never met and knew little about, telling me he thought a lot about my family, the kids especially, that he spoke of us often, and she wanted me to know that he had just passed.
So reliving Conques last night was especially emotional.
So within minutes, I get over my newsfeed that Valentine of The Animals had died yesterday.
I am sharing this so other Le Puy lovers might want to ask Alexa to play, "The House of the Rising Sun, by the Animals, Volume Ten".... today...
wishing I was sitting in a pew in Conques...
Much love fellow Camino lovers,
...assured our paths will be there when the World is ready for us...
Neve
my blog is shefollowsshells.blogspot.com, with specific tabs for all things camino
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