Strength and Weakness on the Camino
A beautiful essay on grief, friendship, and very long walks, by a young Swiss pilgrim we met on the Camino in 2015.
A beautiful essay on grief, friendship, and very long walks, by a young Swiss pilgrim we met on the Camino in 2015.
A garden teaches many things: how to dig in and get dirt under your fingernails; the art of patience; and the constancy of impermanence. My friend and hero Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova, the wonderful Soviet combat airwoman whose memoir I edited, taught me those lessons as well. For more than half a year I lived…