Category: Processing the experience

When I walked in silence for hours at a time, songs come came up that I haven’t thought about in years as unbidden messengers from the Divine. When songs showed up, I pondered their significance in the way you would a dream. Why is this song showing up? What is happening in my life that reflects the message? What does this song want to tell me?

 

As someone who’s spent most of her life searching for answers, it’s not surprising that this one showed up. But it has such a lonesome, unfulfilled quality to it, it gave me pause.

Why I think Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For was in my head

On the surface, it might mean that I was thinking about Santiago — and that I hadn’t yet found what I was looking for.

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I can’t say that I’m a huge Sheryl Crow fan. In fact, I only tolerated singing All I Wanna Do (Is Have Some Fun) when I was in an a capella group in college. But Every Day is a Winding Road just wouldn’t leave me alone. Even now that I’ve seen the video, I still couldn’t sing you an entire verse of this song. Just the chorus:

Every day is a winding road I get a little bit closer / Every day is a faded siiiign I get a little bit closer…

That’s what I heard in my mind, over and over.

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Is there anyone who hasn’t thought of this song with regard to the Camino? Or the oldie by the Mama and the Papas (500 Miles)? That one is a but sadder and more lonesome, but I’m Gonna Be was in my head a bunch. You know, “I would walk five hundred miles, and I would walk five hundred more.” Remember that one?

It’s pretty catchy. 🙂

Why I think I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) was in my head

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I noticed that I’ve been having a hard time getting motivated to write. I don’t know where to start because so much happened for me on the Camino. So much in me has changed. What they say about spiritual seeking is true: it’s hard to find words to describe the experience.

However, music is a transcendent medium for me and I’ve been compiling a list of songs that were on my mind while I walked.

So I’m letting them start the conversation — with the song that ran through my mind almost every day: Finlandia. The Indigo Girls did an a capella version of it early in their career which I performed in a quartet at the celebration of life ceremony of a local friend.

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