Day 05b: Healing Healthcare … (09/13/18)
After I was finally admitted to the hospital in Nagold (having endured a 30 minute wait before someone finally called an ambulance, a 30 minute wait for that ambulance to finally arrive, another 30 minute wait riding in the back of the same, and a fourth 30 minute wait in the hospital lobby while my […]
Day 16c: Consequent with Consequence … (04/30/2019)
There were supposedly three primary Camino tributaries that flowed through Weil am Rhein to the German-Swiss border, and one of them — the one I intended to take — supposedly led to a pedestrians-only bridge (named the “Peace Bridge”, fittingly). Of course, as is so often the case when plans are made, God begins chuckling […]
Day 16e: A sideshow of Slavery … (04/30/2019)
As uplifted as I was over the ease at which I had crossed into Switzerland, I couldn’t help but feel an immense wave of disappointment wash over me when the first Swiss “business” I encountered proved to be a zoo — a zoo, in the most cruel twist of ironies, that charged no entry fee […]
Day 19b: Liberté pour les vaches! … (05/03/2019)
One of the actions that I engaged throughout the entire length of The Walk was openly apologizing to any & all the dairy cows I met along the way. Yes, it is admittedly true that the cows I saw who were enclosed in lush pastures on small Swiss & French farms did seem to be […]
Day 23d: Recalling a deeper Compassion … (05/07/2019)
Onward through the lovely village of Bargen (where yet another roadside chapel had been graced with a beautiful stained-glass tribute to Jesus gently holding a lamb) and then pause for while on a path-side bench fittingly located between a cemetery on one side and a small herd of soon-to-be-violently-slaughtered dairy cows on the other … […]
Day 32d: Voyaging for Virtue … (05/16/2019)
During my Walk, there were three primary messages I chose to share with folks whenever asked to do so; by far the three most important messages available to humanity in this day & age. And those messages were the following: 01) the need for people (especially those people living in the United States) to disengage […]
Day 35l: A not-so-Good Life … (05/19/2019)
The image below captures how many folks think life is like for the cows that produce the milk & cheese they regularly consume. Of course, nothing could be further from the Truth for 99% of the world’s dairy slaves; with lives soaked in abuse and filth and disease … 🙁 … And yet quite a […]
Day 36i: Giving Grace to Gertrude … (05/20/2019)
I hobbled up to a beautiful baby dairy cow hanging out right next to the Path (an adolescent calf who had been callously tagged as “#852” by her “owner” but gently renamed “Gertrude” by myself) and paused long enough to recite my standard litany of apologetic encouragement to her — apologizing for the raw arrogance […]
Day 42c: Another beautiful Morning … (05/26/2019)
I am flowing pretty smoothly this morning and fully enjoying the easy groove of the day’s walk, and yet still I am called to pause reverently in the presence of Cow #0081 — a gentle, beautiful being who is just as innocent and just as loving as any dog or cat companion I have ever […]
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