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I once did a walk in France with a dog and a donkey. Not even my dog, his owner was on holiday. Sometimes the dog got to stay in my room, sometimes in my tent, and often in the stable with the donkey. Sometimes all three of us were in the stable...
What have I learned from reading all the way through this thread?
That unicorns don’t exist.
That I still profoundly dislike Oliver Cromwell. Despite having a degree in medieval and modern History, I managed to remain in complete ignorance of...
There is a problem right there. What is "the most traditional Camino experience"? I have walked the Camino Frances in 1990, 2002, 2016 and 2023. Each of them a very different journey. I would say the most traditional experience was my first...
I can hear birds singing outside at 2 a.m. I wake to the sound of church bells. The children playing in the plaza speak three languages among them, but they understand one another. We can watch them play from the terrace of the local bar, where a...
Molly Cassidy (posting above) hit a nail on the head!
I lived 5 years in the USA. Left. The bottom line there was, and still is, the mighty dollar.
Why (above a certain threshold of course ) would one expect increasing GDP to linearly...
Hi everyone again.
Thanks for your comments.
To clarify one thing — I’m not going for a vacation. I’m going to a physically and mentally hard path, to find answers to my questions.
I know a lot about this path, credentials and so on, because...
for crying out loud, the woman is coming from a war area. there will be precious little pilgrims from where she leaves. ans bombs will not mind if she is open to whatever or not.
As usual, I have several anecdotes to illustrate both sides of this.
One time at home I was out running an errand in my car and it started to rain.
I saw a woman walking with a bag of groceries, so I stopped and offered her a ride. She jumped...
I think that the Camino does provide:
- The abililty to deal with uncertainty
- The reassurance that there are some people in the world who do believe in the golden rule
- That many times simple is best
- You don't need to eat fine and you can...
I suppose my approach would be to be wary of fools, scroungers and thieves, however a more spiritual approach is to have compassion for even the thief, for hard as it maybe, I do not know the journey they have taken to arrive at being a thief...
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