"That day we topped a hill at noontime and the land fell away in a
panorama so I spun on a foot gazing on the fields of blood-red poppies
that sloped down to a far-off church shining, as far as the eye could
see, blooming in the sun even to the reaches of the ancient church where
the Camino winded, and the three of us, mother, father and daughter,
embraced on the roadside with heartfelt joy, this after the hard ride.
We sipped wine and broke bread in the cloister marked by the cross of
St. James and it was good, this life."
Finisterre, recounts a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in north
Spain, from Puente la Reina to the ancient cathedral in Santiago de
Compostela, said to house the relics of the apostle James-Iago-walked
with Christ. And from there the narrative turns toward the bluffs of
Finisterre, holy site of initiation, the emotional, spiritual, and
physical boundary of the fourth world. Where earth ends, the place is
called, and so it does.