Approaching

There is an Advent feel to the Camino. Much of the walk is spent contemplating an approach. From the time one first sees the Pyrenees in the distance several (in my case many) days pass before you begin the ascent. Yesterday on several occasions a blurred image on a distant hill gradually emerged as a medieval village before I found myself walking through it an hour or more later. Today the mist of a rainy day gradually revealed a lovely town. This sense of approach in the physical landscape is echoed in my emotional and spiritual landscape.