Saturday, April 24, 2010

The departure: preparations




You make arrangements, you choose your
route, you decide what to take along and …
what to leave home, you start some training
hikes and prepare yourself mentally as well.

- what do you intend to
gain with your journey?
- what are your expectations
about your way
and about yourself?
- what held you back
earlier on?
- which role do these old
barriers play now?
- what is the most
important thing that
you take along?
- which certainties fall
away and which have
not yet fallen away?

“The real quest is not
looking for new
landscapes but looking
with new eyes”
(Marcel Proust)


The above thoughts found at www.espritduchemin.org can be beneficial to all pilgrims.

Another day closer ... just 9 more sleeps now. We were able to fit three more hours of walking in today and just about escaped the rain. I know that we are spoilt right now in that we can plan our walks around when we most feel like going out and what the weather is ... very very soon this will not be the situation! We will be walking every day - wind, rain, heat and possibly even snow.

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