Friday, July 01, 2011

182: obsession / passion

I guess this bookshelf shows a bit of an obsession, but I know other fine people who share it... The next escapade is in the plotting stages- probably involving Cluny to Le Puy, maybe as soon as next year...

PS: One of the fine people who walked the Camino with me has told me to call it a 'passion' rather than an obsession- and she is quite right!!! Blog post title duly amended.

5 comments:

  1. Both you and Lyne (on Facebook) remind me today, that no matter what happens and what hurdles I must face, I have had a life-changing experience that few will experience. Thank you!

    Michèle

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  2. I am four days too early really Michèle, for the L-D-M 3rd anniversary of arrival in Santiago!

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  3. Oh no...am I going to remember June 19th like this too!! LOL!! Just say the date now and I smile! Nice shelf...Did you like "The Year we seized the day" ?

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  4. No, I actually hated "The Year we Seized the day'!!!! Far too dramatic and unprepared for my liking. Too much of the 'ultra-pain for glory' brigade. And frankly, after walking some more isolated sections in France, I am not sure what people are on about when they have these big dramas on the Meseta- it always seemed far too close to civilisation there for me. But I guess I was lucky I was not walking it in the extreme heat of summer. My favourite book on that shelf is the Kevin Codd one, 'To the Field of Stars'.

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  5. I would love to leaf through those books, and I'm sure I could learn plenty good from reading them! The idea of pilgrimage a great theme. Life indeed is a journey. But I see it a bit differently than the one Christian was on in Pilgrim's Progress, though I would concur with a lot in that story. It needs a good dose of learning to simply live well, which is part of learning to follow Jesus, I believe.

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