I made it thereafter to the outskirts of the tiny community of Foxchase and decided to leave behind the prayer book that Father Sean had given me for someone else to find. After all, I had long since moved beyond the Christian dogma into following the actual Way of Christ, and as such the time […]
I didn’t flow much further on that then hot and glary day when I came across a small roadside shopping plaza (just south of the town of Crozet and about one mile before the large highway intersection at Yancey Mills) that contained a lovely little eatery called Burrit Oh! Ever one to appreciate odd words […]
I walked on quite a ways that afternoon – past the Greenwood Gourmet Grocery (where a vacationing family was open-mouthed astounded while overhearing me share about my Walk) and past the abandoned St. Nicholas Orthodox Church and past the very not-abandoned Emmanuel Episcopal Church. It was then that I saw the Appalachian Mountains in the […]
“There is a vast difference between arriving at a place and truly entering it. Arrival is physical and happens all at once. The train pulls in, the plan touches down, you get out of the taxi with all your luggage. You can arrive at any place and never really enter it, and indeed far more […]
I rolled into Waynesboro and headed straight to the library to check in with folks online. Afterwards I was strolling onward towards that night’s place of rest, when I passed by more-than-slightly-inebriated and more-than-mildly-friendly Gavin & Dustin (who were hanging out in their yard with Ashley & young Corey). They all saw me sauntering past […]
I always liked (if not outright loved) rising early and setting out onto The Road in whatever wee hour of the morning I happened to do so. And it didn’t really matter whether the sunrise was majestic or the skies were filled with clouds (heck, it didn’t even matter on many days that it was […]
“Standing face to face with the world, we often sense an interconnected spirit which surpasses our ability to comprehend. The world is too much for us in those moments of purer awareness – too vast, too intertwined, too flowing, too beautiful. It is indeed a place that is overflowing with awe & marvel. And this […]
The walking was free and easy this morning – with cool cloud-cover overhead and smooth surfaces underfoot and very little traffic racing by. And so it was that I fluidly made my way down Highway 340W all the way to the outskirts of Stuarts Draft, where I instinctively frowned upon a sign advertising “Free Kindness […]
It didn’t really matter where I saw animal abuse, and it didn’t really matter what kind of abuse I saw or which species was being afflicted. A mixture of rage and revulsion rose from within me every single time the same was witnessed, and I found myself repeatedly praying for a much kinder world, and […]
I then made it into the outskirts of the town of Stuarts Draft where a series of sightings caught my eye and confused my Soul. First, there was a sign that was clearly missing both a smaller “Y” and a greater WHY – with the former turning its announcement into the latter; shifting its call […]
“I am an ordained lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan Buddhist teachers. I am also an avid student of Brahmin, Hindu, Taoist, Wiccan, Animist and many other traditions; a daily practitioner of meditations both seated & moving. My earliest roots are embedded in Judeo-Christian mysticism and my most […]
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