Not all those who wander are lost - by Ashley Zhang
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Meandering reflections on walking the Camino de Santiago
Dear friend, Last May, in lieu of attending my college graduation ceremony, I flew to Portugal to walk the Camino de Santiago on my own. I embarked on this ancient Catholic pilgrimage because I sought answers to questions I had grappled with for years, the same ones that people across cultures and centuries have asked themselves: Who am I? Why am I here? How shall I live? The years prior to the Camino were characterized by a feeling of deep unsettlement. College, where I made few friends and largely inhabited the bowels of the library, had been interrupted by COVID. After a year of feeling…
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