After Cajarc made it clear that I was not to stop there for the night, Gaillac was the next town along The Way. And yet even though its hilltop vibe from afar was a pleasing one, its residents made it quite clear from the outset that pilgrims – at least mendicant pilgrims like yours truly […]
I departed the odd-but-still-lovely church and walked on a few hundred yards or so into Gaillac proper, where I right away saw a very elderly woman pruning some very beautiful flowers in front of a very beautiful cottage. In my sufficient-but-still-extremely-broken French I complimented her obvious gardening prowess, and she proceeded to ask me where […]
The next village (Saint Jean du Laur) was supposedly just another 5 kilometers (roughly 3 miles) up ahead, and so I didn’t think much of it as I gladly left Gaillac behind. And yet – as was so often the case on the Camino – this promised distance was not much more than a wispy […]
And so it was that the day grew longer and the daylight ever shorter … And so it was that my legs began to drag along the path and my shoulders began to droop in their sockets and I started looking for anyplace – truly anyplace – where I thought I might be able to […]
There is not much better than setting forth anew into an early, peaceful morning … 😉 “When you arise in the morning, remember what a precious privilege it is to be alive — a privilege not only to breathe and think and enjoy and know love, but also, far more importantly, a privilege to be […]
This pilgrim’s rest-stop was completely deserted so early in the morning, and yet its fog-enshrined emptiness provided a vision of great beauty nonetheless, and its multinational scallop-shell tribute provided a vision of great hope for a greater world peace … 🙂 “To really change the world, we have to help others alter the way they […]
“The Cosmic Divine, our celestial Master, sees it all, whereas we, Its noble minions, do not. Indeed, whenever we walk along a long curvy road, we don’t see beyond the twists and turns until we are coming out of them. And yet when we remember to see things from a higher perspective, we can see […]
“Once your Soul awakens – once you round the misty bend and realize that you are a powerful servant of all that is greater and good, then the search for Purpose truly begins – and you can never go back to your previous miseries of hollow pleasure and fleeting comfort. Indeed, from that moment on […]
“There is an ancient conversation going on continually between moss and the rocks and trees upon which it resides – a most profound poetry to be sure. It is a poetry about light and shadow; a poetry about life and death; a poetry about being stolidly here, and yet just as much about the drift […]
I walked onward quite smoothly all the way to the little village of Mas de Dalat, where I came upon the local Gite d’Etape. It seemed like an inviting place and my legs were softly asking for a brief rest in the shade, so I decided to walk over to the hostel’s open doorway and […]
“One day, it might all make sense; one day it might all be revealed. Then again, it might very well not. And yet whether said certainty will one day come to us or not, one truth remains quite evident: We Are Here Now. We are here now to learn to live boldly and accept our […]
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