127/499 … doing the Right (09/26/08)
The Camino’s most joyful garbage collector … 😉
I didn’t collect all of this trash myself today — merely the bag on top. I don’t know why I collected trash while walking The Way. I just started a few days into the Journey and kept doing it for several weeks. I would find a plastic bag on the side of the Path, and that would be my cue to start collecting all the garbage I saw alongside the Path — and I simply did so until that bag was full. Then I would throw the bag of trash away and look for the next one. It felt good — somehow just plain “right” — to care for the Camino in this manner.
“Everything flows and nothing abides;
everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”
~ Heraclitus
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