Susan Nethersole
Susan Nethersole is a high school teacher, and mother of four grown children. She is an unlikely seeker of truth and adventure.
Bio last updated April 29th, 2019.
Articles by Susan Nethersole
The Camino Diaries
By Julia Nethersole and Susan Nethersole
February 1, 2015
In fall 2014, Convivium's community and partnership coordinator, Julia Nethersole, walked Spain's 775 kilometre Camino Francés (The French Way). She followed in the footsteps of her mother, Susan, who had started the trek in June. Though mother and daughter travelled separately, their diaries detail the powerful spiritual union of pilgrimage
How is it that I am so far from home, in a town that I've never visited, and yet someone is calling my name? In so many ways, being on the Camino feels like being part of a small, moving community She told me the Camino before La Cruz de Ferro (The Iron Cross) is for the body and mind On the walk today, I kept trying to tell myself to slow down and relish every step, knowing that they would be my last of the Camino This means carrying on through three mountains to reconnect to the traditional Camino route Today I am in the town of Triacastela in a fantastical little turret room with stone walls and small rectangular windows Today, I was walking through the town and I heard someone call my name — a friend from a few towns back My mother, Susan, was going to hike the Camino Francés As with many decisions on the Camino, I changed my mind quickly
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Reflections from the Camino: Part II
Julia Nethersole and Susan Nethersole
January 20, 2015
Read the rest of Julia’s thoughts about the Camino with additional diary entries, including several by her mother, Sue, in the February/March 2015 issue of Convivium. My mother, Susan, was going to hike the Camino Francés ...
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Reflections from the Camino: Part I
Julia Nethersole and Susan Nethersole
November 7, 2014
What does it mean to be a pilgrim and pedestrian in our modern world? By doing nothing but placing one foot in front of the other, we are stripped down to our most basic sense of being, reconnected to a simplicity of times gone by ...