Book Review: 50 Days in May

50 Days in May book review, with book cover.

A review of Shoshana D. Kerewsky’s Camino memoir “50 Days in May: Reflections Along the Camino de Santiago.” Review by Allison Venuto.

Rhythms of Community

James Brooks meal in Astorga, group eating dinner.

The thrum of encounters with locals and Camino family along the way help a pilgrim attune to and appreciate the rhythm of community around him back home.

Remembering the Rhythm of the Way

Remembering the Rhythm Marion Gonsior, green fabric design.

A peregrina carries scraps of cloth with her as she walks and stitches the fabric together to recreate her Camino experience in a textile art piece.

Perhaps the Camino Does Provide

Mark Smith Camino Provides Finesterre feature.

On Day 1, an observant hostess and soon-to-be Camino family help a man find a rhythm that would carry him along his pilgrimage.

My Walk for Emily

Ricardo Gushue walk for Emily, in front of Santiago Cathedral.

A father walks the Camino in memory of his 17-year-old daughter who was killed in an automobile accident.

Mending My Shirt

Mending my Shirt Irene Calvo.

A tattered pilgrim discovers the invisible, energetic, healing fibers that weave us together and is mended along the way.

Lost & Found on the Camino

M. J O'Meara Lost Man with Dogs feature.

A reflection about a peregrina who was profoundly lost on the Camino, and a local man and his dog’s who helped her find her way.