Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 68
LESSONS LEARNED ON
The Way to
Santiago
I
BY DEBORAH KEVIN
was ten hours and 20 miles
into the first day on the Camino
de Santiago de Compostela with
four and a half miles farther to
go until reaching the B&B. I’d
waited years to begin this journey
and planned to trek for five days
with a small group of like-minded
women, only one of whom I’d met
once and barely knew.
I teetered across a balance beam
of hard-packed earth, waist-high
fronds on my left and a gully of
mud to my right. My foot slipped.
Ankle twisted. Ping. A shockwave
ran up my left leg. I paused.
Sucked air deep into my lungs.
Not my knee! No! But I said
nothing, pushing through the pain
that grew with each footstep. I fell
behind the others as we plodded
toward Montcuq.
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