Post Camino stuff

[Edie Bennett]

Russ, congratulations on your skydiving accomplishment.  There's a book
called "Pilgrim Stories" by Nancy Frey  (ISBN 0-520-21751-9) where she
discusses post-Camino stories shared by countless pilgrims.  A quote from
the book, ". . . another outcome of the pilgrims' interactions with the
Camino that continues to work in their daily lives is a sense of personal
empowerment acquired through the way."   I think many of us share your
"post-Camino" feelings, that we'd like to go back and "re-do" the experience
because we can't let it go, for some reason.  I  was walking the Camino at
about the same time you were this year, and I can only think of going back,
and the sooner the better!!
Best of luck to you when you make your Second Camino.

Edie from California


----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Irwin" <rirwinaUSAOR.NET>
To: <GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:58 PM
Subject: Post Camino stuff


> I've been feeling the need to share this here and I apologize if it may
seem not relevant to some,
> but from much of what I've read (and experienced myself) there is a
disorienting feeling once one
> gets back home and into everday life again. Also, I'm one of the ones who
didn't make it the whole
> way even though it had an impact on my life that will endure for the rest
of my life (and beyond
> <g>).
>
> Anyway, since I've been back I finally fulfilled a lifelong dream. I've
always "wanted" to go
> skydiving, and two weeks ago I "chose" to do it! (there's a big difference
between those two words)
> That means that at age 53, after about 6 hours of ground training, I
jumped out of a perfectly good
> airplane at 13,500 feet! It was FANTASTIC!!
>
> Did the Camino in some way lead me to this? I don't know, but I know that
I still can't get the
> Camino out of my mind and will most likely be going back next year to pick
up where I left off.
>
> Russ