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This phrase, “the Camino provides,” is well-known to any pilgrim/peregrino. Let me count thine ways…
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It became apparent I could complete this 500+ kilometer pilgrimage across Spain while still job searching and maintaining a minimal budget. Two weeks later, by way of airplane (Denver>London>Zurich>Madrid), midnight bus (Madrid > San Sebastian), and dawn train (San Sebastian > Irun), my Camino began. What follows is a first-person account of that journey, including the quirky cast of characters I met along The Way, as well as the lessons learned, the awe attained, and the gratitude gained, that to this day, remain.
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To get to the bones of what I’d like to discuss (the Camino de Santiago), I must first set the stage and discuss key happenings over the last few years, what those from my English teaching days would call scaffolding. I must provide a solid base of context, background, and understanding to build towards the…
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I volunteered at Cloud Berry for 1.5 months from late May until early July. It was an unforgettable experience brimming with delicious home-cooked meals, positive vibes, and a spirit of camaraderie amongst the local and international volunteers and interns while completing each day’s farming tasks.
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Since the summer of 2018, I have been in the midst of a meandering, oftentimes unruly, multi-continental transition towards a career related to my passion for sustainable agriculture. This stemmed from my upbringing on a small family farm in rural Kansas and never left me in the decade I lived in Washington, D.C.
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I could spend hours talking about how much I hate the coronavirus, but had it not existed, I never would have gone to Korea.
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The richest nation in the world was bungling their handling of a pandemic while the place I was evacuated from—Rwanda—turned out to be a much safer place to be, and with only a fraction of America’s GDP, healthcare budget, and influence.
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