[Gocamino] camino blues??

[claire bangasser]

On Jul 29, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Hathor821 at aol.com wrote:

>  A question?  Is there something called "camino blues?"  I  suffered
> intensively upon my return last year and wonder if it happens   
> often....how to deal
> with it....how to explain not only Camino to friends and  family  
> but the
> obsession with it....

Yes, Patricia, I would say there is such a thing as 'camino blues'. I  
definitely had it two years ago when we came back from Le Puy- 
Santiago. My way of softening the edge of the blues was to decide to  
do it again. Which we did last year. This year, we were going to go  
from Lourdes-Somport to Santiago, but realized a week or so ago that  
we could not. Too much to do in our old house.

The camino haunts me. One way of dealing with the longing, for me, is  
to try to bring it into my daily life, the way I had promised myself  
to do it the first time I reached Santiago. I have also a couple of  
books that I want to spend time with. I would like to read a book on  
the History of Spain and the History of the Spanish Civil War  
(remember el monumento a los caidos?). The spirituality of the Camino  
also is haunting me, so I hope to work it in these next months. And  
then of course, I enjoy the conversations here and click on the links  
of photos :-)

claire