It took hours of wandering and backtracking, guided by the often incorrect yet ever-helpful intentions of many local residents, to finally cross the city limits of Biel. And yet no sooner did my relief over that miraculous escape set in than I experienced my next physical set-back: this time a pulled hip-flexor that seized up […]
I hobbled onward from the tiny church in Aegerton, first past a woman who was “too busy” watering her plants to give me a similar drink (?!?!?) and then into the woods on my way towards the town of Lyss. My shin-splint was not as painful as my newly acquired hip-flexor strain, and yet both […]
I hobble-limped my way into the Swiss town of Lyss after an extra-wonderful AND extra-long day (with close to 30 km wobbled from start to finish) and — as was regularly the case throughout the European portion of my Walk — made my way directly to the town`s Catholic Church (places of respite both calm […]
I walk onward this morning and am amazed & thankful to be walking relatively pain-free (partly due to the rest provided the night before, partly due to the arnica salve given to me by Katharina in Biel, and — I personally believe — more than partly due to the fact that I consciously & willingly […]
Just like acts of selfless Caring (which are as wondrous to behold as they are Joy-full to engage), it is marvelous indeed when the view OF a particular perch or passage is as beautiful as the view FROM the same … 🙂 “Have you rediscovered the Beginning, then, you who search for the End? For […]
The face one makes when, after limping along in great pain and jokingly wishing aloud for a chair upon which to sit & rest, said seat suddenly appears … :O “We can only have the courage to live what Life brings, by first embracing the humility required to willingly die to whatever death comes.” ~ […]
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 … […]
“Two roads diverged in the yellow-green wood,And long I stood before them, sorry I could not travel both.The first was less worn and indeed overgrown,The second, smooth and grassy and wanting for wear.Both that sunny morning lay equally open to me,Both beckoned in tones of deeply earnest yearning;the first of potent adventure and great achievement […]
I’ve split and stacked a lot firewood in my day, and yet never ever ever have I come even close to creating a wood pile like this one I flowed past on this day … :O “O ye men of wisdom among the nations! Shut your eyes to estrangement and then fix your gaze solely […]
It was then a loooooong, relatively straight, scintillatingly bright, and surprisingly toasty walk through the woods and across some fields to this lovely shaded bench overlooking the town of Kerzers … 🙂 “My life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can […]
After resting a bit upon the shaded bench mentioned in my last post, I headed down into the town of Kerzers and was almost immediately blessed by the graciousness of Rachel (pictured below) and Simone — two kind ladies who were hanging out with their kids in Rachel’s garden, and who courageously offered this scraggly […]
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