And So I Walked:
Reflections on Chance, Choice, and the Camino de Santiago
Solvitur ambulando. It is solved by walking……..
“When I was younger I saw the world in black and white. Right and wrong. For me or against me. In those days my confidence was frequently tinged with an exaggerated sense of self-righteousness. I had all the answers back then. I was vigorous but not flexible. Strong but brittle.
What I didn’t fully appreciate back in my salad days were the countless ways in which I would grow stronger with age. I bend now. I play the long game. Like the very iron of the cross at which I knelt, I have been made more formidable by the impurities that mark my life. Getting older is no joke. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
In that moment I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, even as the tears fell from my lashes, I would finish the Camino.”
And So I Walked is the story of my 500-mile walk across northern Spain.
Walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela changed my life. Writing about it changed everything else.
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