Inspiration - A book: The Salt Path, by Raynor Winn

Raynor and her husband, Moth, are hiding under the stairs. Bailiffs are pounding on the door: they must leave their home immediately. The house they built stone by stone, where they raised their children and which is their sole source of income, is about to be repossessed.

In the same week, Moth, who is just fifty years old, learns that he has an incurable degenerative disease.

When all seems lost, should one surrender? Raynor will decide otherwise. They have no more money, no more home? Well, they will walk.

Cheap bags and a second-hand tent on their backs, 250 euros in their pockets, they set off on the salt trail. There you have it...

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I found in this book a true story that told me how walking allowed these two shipwrecked people to be reborn and regain dignity and hope.

Some sentences particularly touched me:

" We could have stopped, but we had nothing to lose and no good reason not to keep walking. Here we were, free, battered by the elements, hungry, tired, frozen, but free. "

" If we hadn't undertaken this walk, there would still be things we wouldn't have known, a part of ourselves we would never have known, a resilience we didn't know we possessed. "

" Like the windswept trees along our path, the elements had shaped us into a new form, and we were now capable of weathering any storm. "

A wonderful book to read or give as a gift.

Francois