Daily Success: January 14 – Yesterday’s distance and exercise were clearly steps in the right direction. My daily post for the day and upload of the one for the 12th were also progress. Today is off to a good start with stretches almost done and Core Strength well under way.

Now to keep it up.

I started a post about my 2018 Camino adventure last evening and almost immediately found that it will be a bit more complex than realized. The big item is that I want to do at least some video for it, especially in an introduction that gets me to some logical starting spot. The airplane to Madrid? The train to San Sebastian? The train to Irun? The Puente de Santiago between France and Spain that marked the beginning of my physical journey on the Way, that first taste that morphed into identifying myself as a peregrino, complete with scallop shells on my backpacks?

The terrible darkness of my mood has receded somewhat; it haunts my core in ways that would not have seemed possible before January 2nd. It must stay there. It is up to me to keep it there. That will not be easy, but the Camino website, work, chores, and exercise are all tools at my disposal. It is up to me to use them wisely.