For many years now I have been contemplating long distance walking.
As I age, I am now 54 years old, I can feel my body needing more and more rests and there are days when stretching does not fix most pains.
And somehow, in this body, in the head that is part of it, and the heart that is the other part of it, I am yearning to walk. Walk and walk and walk and walk.
So for the longest time, I thought that the walking was around the area where I lived, yet in the silence of my thoughts, I heard the call to walk, a long walk. And so I felt that a Walkabout in Australia was called for. But when I spoke to a friend the other day, and I told her how strong the urge to walk is coming to me, she mentioned The Camino to me and advised me to take such a walk where the resources were available to help me and soothe me when I needed.
And there began the sprouting of a seed in my heart into a fresh possibility.
Since that day, almost every day, I am hearing people speak to me about their Walk, or who know of people who have walked this path.
Lets see where this takes me, I am in the meantime, excited and preparing for a Walk on The Camino.
As I age, I am now 54 years old, I can feel my body needing more and more rests and there are days when stretching does not fix most pains.
And somehow, in this body, in the head that is part of it, and the heart that is the other part of it, I am yearning to walk. Walk and walk and walk and walk.
So for the longest time, I thought that the walking was around the area where I lived, yet in the silence of my thoughts, I heard the call to walk, a long walk. And so I felt that a Walkabout in Australia was called for. But when I spoke to a friend the other day, and I told her how strong the urge to walk is coming to me, she mentioned The Camino to me and advised me to take such a walk where the resources were available to help me and soothe me when I needed.
And there began the sprouting of a seed in my heart into a fresh possibility.
Since that day, almost every day, I am hearing people speak to me about their Walk, or who know of people who have walked this path.
Lets see where this takes me, I am in the meantime, excited and preparing for a Walk on The Camino.
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