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.
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!
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I am four days too early really Michèle, for the L-D-M 3rd anniversary of arrival in Santiago!
ReplyDeleteOh 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" ?
ReplyDeleteNo, 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'.
ReplyDeleteI 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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