[Gocamino] Off to Santiago

Wed Apr 7 05:27:11 PDT 2010

Alan,
MUY/Molto Buen Camino! Yours sounds like it will be a beautiful spring walk. With that many kilometers planned, "overweight" will soon be in the past---you had best prepare to hear something more like "Hello, String Bean!"
Best wishes for a wonderful Camino,Deborah

> From: alpal at ozemail.com.au
> To: sue.kenney at sympatico.ca; saintjames at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:55:04 +1000
> CC: gocamino at oakapple.net
> Subject: [Gocamino] Off to Santiago
> 
> Hi all,
> I set off on Saturday to walk from Assisi to Santiago, via parts of the Via 
> Francigena, Via Tolosana, Camino Aragones, Camino del Salvador, and the 
> Camino Primitivo.
> If any of you happen to see an overweight Aussie on the trail, please say 
> hello!
>  For details of my walk, visit www.assisi at santiago.com
> Buen camino
> Alan
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <sue.kenney at sympatico.ca>
> To: "Saintjames" <saintjames at yahoogroups.com>
> Cc: "GoCamino" <gocamino at oakapple.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 7:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] [saintjames] Thinking of writing a book about 
> yourcamino?
> 
> 
> 
> Deborah and others,
> After my first Camino I started off telling stories to people who had never 
> been exposed to the Camino. In the first 4 years I spoke to over 5000 people 
> in Canada, the US and the Bahama's and borrowed money to finance it. So many 
> people told me I should write a book. I had no plans to do that when I 
> walked the Camino and so I told them I wasn't a writer. Still I had so many 
> requests that I wrote My Camino and it's a Canadian best-seller. It's not 
> perfect but what I found is that people were tolerant because I had the 
> courage to speak my truth and to bare my soul. And guess what, I'm not 
> perfect but I have something to say. That's what the Camino taught me.
> Like you, I almost always speak and share my story with non-pilgrims. Most 
> of the people who buy my book aren't pilgrims. I find men and women, 
> children and elderly all read my stories because I believe they are 
> universal. Many people have written back to me to say they walked the Camino 
> because of me. It's a great honour but I'm not promoting the Camino, I am 
> promoting being on a life journey.
> And I am still distilling the lessons of the Camino. I wrote my second book 
> on the Camino, did a one woman show, directed a documentary, wrote poetry 
> and I live the Camino everyday. It's not for all of us. I'm heading back to 
> the Camino in May for 3 months to walk and talk to pilgrims about how to 
> integrate they journey into life back home. What I found is that there is so 
> little support for pilgrims when they get back into the "real" world. Having 
> walked 5 times now, it is my honour to share my experiences with others. 
> I'll be blogging and encouraging others to blog about their experiences.
> I am so grateful to the people on my path who helped me with their support, 
> critics, feedback, honesty and truth I want to give back. We need advice 
> from people like Sil but if it stops you from writing then you'll never 
> stand up to the riggers of the promoting a book in the real world.
> I would be happy to help anyone out there who is writing their Camino story. 
> Feel free to contact me kenneysue at gmail.com anytime. If you have questions 
> or you want me to give you some notes on your writing, I welcome it.
> Buen Camino back home.
> Sue
> ps Now I'm writing my first novel about a woman travelling in India. The 
> Camino lives on in other parts of the world.
> 
> Love and light,
> 
> Sue
> 
> www.suekenney.ca
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > To: saintjames at yahoogroups.com
> > CC: gocamino at oakapple.net
> > From: GASpangler at hotmail.com
> > Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:41:26 -0700
> > Subject: RE: [saintjames] Thinking of writing a book about your camino?
> >
> >
> > The effects of the Road vary.
> >
> > Ponder if you would, how many different reactions there might be from the 
> > demise of a relationship. Some consume their weight in chocolate, other 
> > stop eating all together. Some hit the bar scene, others stay at home. 
> > Some crawl into a bottle, others don’t go near liquor or libation. 
> > Post-Camino effects of the Road to Santiago can be just as diverse, but 
> > not quite as obvious.
> >
> > I meet folks who want to experience all the ‘good stuff’ and none of the 
> > ‘bad stuff’ the Road has to offer. Sometimes that’s skipping the perceived 
> > boredom of the Meseta. Sometimes that’s taking a bus through a ‘tedious’ 
> > part of a big city. Tour groups promise travelers a ‘Camino’s Greatest 
> > Hits’ approach instead of the more traditional and taxing Pilgrim 
> > experience. There are as many variants as there are walkers.
> >
> > I have read many of the treatises offered by the newly-minted Pilgrims. 
> > Not all are born to write. Yes, many make factual, spelling, grammatical 
> > and even mathematical errors. Oh, well. Skipping the ‘boring’ or 
> > ‘problematic’ literature is like skipping the ‘boring’ or ‘problematic’ 
> > parts of the Road. Many of us come home a bit disoriented. Something 
> > happens we can’t quantify .. something a bit intangible. Try to translate 
> > the intangible into any language, please. Now ask a non-writer to do that. 
> > All can write, but not all are writers. Perhaps the unskilled word 
> > wranglers are at a loss, and the baseline experience is all they can 
> > muster. It’s their way of decompressing. You know, that Post-Camino thing.
> >
> > Why do we walk in the first place? What’s so strong a draw that many of us 
> > are repeat offenders? Why do we seek out Camino literature, Camino 
> > pictures and Camino music? Why are we even talking about this? We’re 
> > addicts. Every Camino is different for every Pilgrim who has ever walked. 
> > It’s been that way since the whole Walking-to-Compostela thing began. 
> > Chill. We’re not all clever people and not all brilliant authors. Be kind 
> > to our less gifted family members. This was supposed to be fun. Let them 
> > do what they need in their life (Camino). None of us are finished yet. 
> > Even the bad writers need a break. “The tourist demands, the Pilgrim 
> > appreciates”, as the saying goes. Let’s all aspire to be Pilgrims. 
> > Appreciate, help and encourage those who might lag behind.
> >
> >
> > Buen Camino,
> >
> >
> > Grant
> >
> > http://www.ElCaminoSantiago.com
> > Resources for the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago
> >
> >
> >
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