“Our attention is so sacred that if we truly look for Beauty and Grace, we will find it in everything around us. Indeed everything nearby is worthy of wonderment when our minds are no longer small.” ~ inspired by Kamand Kojouri & Fernando Penea
I had been graciously given some duct tape by Marcel the night before, and yet its quality soon proved to be just as tenuous as Marcel’s graciousness had been* … Of course, this too was fully appropriate; reminding me that ours is not to toughen-up the tools that help us walk The Way, but rather […]
The walking proved to be strong and true today, and I made it without trial or trauma to the lovely pathside Eglise de l’Hospital St. Christie – a tiny 12th century chapel located on the Camino just to the west of the village of Cravenceres … “Sacred space is any space where your mind doesn’t […]
I was walking on a bit further, deeply soaked in the Joy of Moving, when I crested a hill and came across Jean Michel Danard’s remarkable wayside portrait gallery (located directly on the Greenwich Meridian, no less) – a pictorial gallery of pilgrims who had walked this Way before. How joyous it was to feel […]
I eventually thereafter made it through the poplar-lined promenade on the outskirts of Nogaro (the last stop for the duct tape that had been so devoutly hanging on to my shoes for so many miles before) and into the city proper, where I (as usual) paused to rest in Gratitude within the cool confines of […]
“During any walk of any significant distance, whether hobbling along or moving smoothly, whether with the Sun at your back or the cold rain dripping down your collar, you are more yourself than under any other circumstance,. For in these times you walk so far that you are no longer merely that self, but have […]
It was around this time that I began to regularly see small way-marking stickers adorning The Way – stickers that would show up quite regularly in the many days that followed; stickers that had been adorned with wisdoms that were as encouraging as they were True … “To truly live is to dig our toes […]
“The landscape projects into us not like a jetty or peninsula, but instead like a kind of sunlight, flickeringly unmappable in its plays yet often quickening and illuminating as well. We are adept, if not also occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of certain places, and yet we are far less talented at announcing […]
I had not been able to find Nogaro’s rumored donativo (and it had been still too early to halt at the time), and yet I had somehow assumed (quite incorrectly, as things turned out) that my day’s walking would soon come to a close. I had heard from fellow pilgrim Sasha (who I had originally […]
“Suddenly I came out of my thoughts and noticed everything around me again – the lush greens of the neighboring fields, the way the leaves of the trees danced with the gentle wind, the sun-stroked shadows that laid out perfect geometries upon the path underfoot. And then there was myself, walking with the alignment that […]
It is crucial for us all to remember that “The ONE” does not refer to a being separate &/or above us, but rather references the Truth that we too are an innately interconnected, an equally significant, and an ever-potentially powerful facet of the entire Cosmos. The former meaning limits us by keeping us separate from […]
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