After a very hot walk yesterday and a wonderful stay at a fabulous albergue. The day was started cool, wore my jacket all day . The weather has rapidly turned cold with approaching cold front rain and thunder forecast for the afternoon. I have been troubled by the ankle sprain , caused by bicyclist zooming by from behind with no warning, a few days ago , startled me ,allowing me to loose my balance and foot placement and thus rolled my left ankle. Yesterday I was walking alone and again was passed by a trio of speeding downhill cyclists without warning. The first one struck me with a glancing blow from behind, knocked me off balance and re-rolled my ankle, they kept going without a word spoken.
Today was the the practice of being in tune with my step, the pace, the length of stride, weight on the outside of the foot, on the inside of the of the foot. All manners of walking to ease the discomfort of the ankle, and because of compensation to the ankle yesterday and my now bothersome left knee. But it was the day of the step. I also got to confront my anger and distrust of all cyclists, I am guilty of profiling. So I spent much time looking at the issue within.
The young man sitting at the table was named Daniel he was using arm crutches, as he had no use of his legs , maybe spastic , he was walking the Camino 6 Km a day, quite an inspiration to me, his hands were of leather due to his grip on the crutches , his smile was the expression of his heart.
The thought of the day: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a secret, today is a gift.
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