🇪🇸 My Pilgrimage in Spain – Summer 2023
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and I keep on remembering mine
– Lucille Clifton
This page is a convenient and efficient reference for all of the blog posts related to my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela during the summer of 2023.
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How it began.
June
- La Negra Peregrina En El Camino………. 06/19/2021
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Two years later…
During the summer of 2023, I chronicled my pilgrimage in Spain where I walked 1400 kilometers on the camino Mozárabe, the camino Via de la Plata, and camino Sanabrès – northward, west, and north again – to Santiago de Compostela and beyond.
Read my announcement here.
How it came to be.
2023
May
- 🇪🇸NP: The Walk of My Life……… 05/09/2023
- NP: MMOG Backpack – Part 1………. 05/19/2023
- NP: MMOG Backpack – Part 2………. 05/24/2023
- NP: Inside My Backpack………. 05/29/2023
June
- NP: Personal Pouch and Tote………. 06/05/2023
- NP: Praying with My Feet………. 06/10/2023
- NP: Spain………. 06/14/2023
- NP: What is Camino Mozárabe………. 06/20/2023
- NP: Speak to Me………. 06/25/2023
- NP: I’m Not There Yet………. 06/29/2023
July
- NP: Almeria………. 07/02/2023
- NP: Speak to Me, Too………. 07/04/2023
- NP: I’m Not There Yet – The Albergue……… 07/08/2023
- NP: Granada………. 07/11/2023
- NP: I’m Not There Yet – Places………. 07/14/2023
- NP: Stop For A Coffee………. 07/17/2023
- NP: A Bad Day is A Bad Day………. 07/21/2023
- NP: Casa de America………. 07/24/2023
- NP: Invisible to The World………. 07/26/2023
- NP: Stranger on Earth………. 07/31/2023
August
- NP: Cordoba……… 08/03/2023
- NP: What I Want………. 08/07/2023
- NP: Merida………. 08/10/2023
- NP: Celebrate Cute Curly Cork………. 08/13/2023
- NP: Reading the Signs……….. 08/21/2023
- NP: Reading the Signs – Part 2………. 08/23/2023
- NP: Salamanca………. 08/26/2023
- NP: Whatever Your Walk……….08/30/2023
September
- NP: Zamora……… 09/02/2023
- NP: Almost Family………. 09/06/2023
- NP: A Plateful of Love………. 09/09/2023
- NP: Courage………. 09/11/2023
- NP: A Spanish Chest………. 09/13/2023
- NP: Ourense………. 09/16/2023
- NP: On The Threshold……… 09/18/2023
- NP: Santiago de Compostela……….. 09/21/2023
- NP: Fisterra …………. 09/24/2023
- NP: Santiago Two……….. 09/26/2023
- NP: For All There is To Come………. 09/28/2023
- NP: Madrid……….. 09/30/2023
October
- NP: After the Camino………. 10/02/2023
- Praying With My Feet – Part 2………. 10/19/2023
- Praying With My Feet – Part 3………. 10/20/2023
December
- Black Madonna………. 12/26/2023
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PILGRIM’S PRAYER
Although I may have traveled all the roads, crossed mountains and valleys from East to West, if I have not discovered the freedom to be myself, I have arrived nowhere.
Although I may have shared all of my possessions with people of other languages and cultures; made friends with Pilgrims of a thousand paths or shared an albuergue with saints and princes, if I am not capable of forgiving my neighbor tomorrow, I have arrived nowhere.
Although I may have carried my pack from beginning to end and waited for every Pilgrim in need of encouragement, or given my bed to one who arrived later than I; or given my bottle of water in exchange for nothing; if upon returning to my home and work, I am not able to create brotherhood or to make happiness, peace and unity, I have arrived nowhere.
Although I may have had food and water each day, and enjoyed a roof and shower every night; or may have had my injuries well attended; if I have not discovered in all that the love of God, I have arrived nowhere.
Although I may have seen all the monuments and contemplated the best sunsets; although I may have learned a greeting in every language or tasted the clean water from every fountain; if I have not discovered who is the author of so much beauty and so much peace, I have arrived nowhere.
If from today I do not continue walking on your path, searching and living according to what I have learned; and from today I do not see in every person, friend or foe, a companion on the Camino; if from today I cannot recognize God, the God of Jesus of Nazareth as the one God of my life, I have arrived nowhere.
– Fraydino