Episode Summary
Who is your shadow beckoning you to become?
Episode Notes
Hello to you listening in Puente de la Reina, Spain!
Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.
The cover art for this podcast is my photo of my shadow in the early days of walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. That’s me in the morning sun on the road to climbing up and over the Pyrenees Mountains from France into Spain.
A pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago walks from East to West, the sun behind, your shadow in front. No matter how hard you try you cannot get ahead of your shadow. But still, we try. We bring with us all the haste of the lives we say we left behind. In time we learn that until we harmonize our head, heart, and feet we will keep trying the impossible, to outrun our shadow.
What did I finally learn? Pilgrim, let go. You’re standing in your own way. Invite your shadow to lead you. Give yourself over to that singular purpose of walking and becoming that which you do.
These days I’ve been so caught up in all of the distractions, doom-scrolling, and busyness of making a living that I’ve forgotten what it means to live. I’m startled to wake up to a deep sense of longing for my Pilgrim self. I’ve neglected giving myself over to being a walker – every single day – as far as I want to go. But, my Camino shadow remembers and it beckons me to follow, to become.
Question: Who is your shadow beckoning you to be?
