‘Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.’Sheridan Anderson
Your loyal companion. The holder of your real, and imaginary, needs. Large, small, heavy, light, brand-new, ancient, balanced, lopsided, lost, found; how did you ‘relate’ with your backpack on your Camino? Did you:
feel daunted when you realized you’d have to carry it day after day?
find yourself giving it a name?
‘lighten the load’ by somebody else unexpectedly carrying it for you?
carry your ‘fears’ inside it?
inadvertently let it have its own ‘Camino’ adventure without you?
find yourself ‘walking taller’; with it proving to be natural medicine?
struggle to give yourself permission for it to be transported to the next albergue?
