Even though we all have long way to travel, and even though we all only have a limited number of days to ‘get there,’ it is always wise to pause and explore the many wonderments that meet us along The Way. And so it was that I came across a sign telling me that the […]
“Pilgrimage always awakens a rebellious, archaic part of us: our appetites become rough and uncompromising, our impulses become inspired. Because walking longer distances puts us on the vertical axis of life: swept along by the torrent of earth that rushes just beneath us. I guess what I mean by this is that by walking purposefully […]
I thereafter walked into and through Limogne en Quency, a town that was strangely church-less, which might have been why I became so fixated on the church steeple of Variare – of the next village on The Way. I don’t regret this hyper-focus – an intense attention that inadvertently took me of the Camino entirely […]
One of the things I loved about my Walk was how it peeled back the more superficial layers of life to reveal the LOVE ever underneath. Whether I was walking along paths thickly carpeted by lush moss or traipsing along stony walkways dry and dusty, Love was always there – the soft give of moss […]
“Let Nature become your teacher once more, for from her you will learn again what is truly beautiful and who you truly are and what is your true quest in life and whither you should truly go and whom & how you should serve. We all live on an ineffable manna that is vouchsafed to […]
Maybe it was the great Beauty with which I was surrounded that afternoon, or maybe it was simply a cherubic Camino illusion, and yet I made it from Variare to the outskirts of Bach in what seemed like almost no time at all – and found there even more beauty still: the Beauty of a […]
Four days previous, just as I was setting forth from the medieval city of Conques, Chantal – one of the hostel’s hospitaleras who had powerfully resonated with both my Walk and its mission – had rushed out to stop me, both to offer a fond farewell and to tell me that she maintained a small […]
This is Raf, the gentle pilgrim from Belgium who without any prompting whatsoever* offered me half his own lunch while we were sitting in the shade of a huge tree in the Bach town square … Thank You again, Raf! 😀 “Some have said that the only way we will ever love our neighbor as […]
“Everywhere and throughout time, beings have walked the Earth. And in their walking they have veined the landscape with paths both visible and invisible, both symmetrical and meandering. And once you begin to look about you, you too will see that the landscape is still webbed with a myriad of paths and footways — shadowing […]
And so it is that I then paused to honor the men &/or women who created this masterpiece of stonework and thoughtfulness. What a treasured gift to the weary pilgrim! What a selfless service to every sauntering stranger! 🙂 “Oh, that blessedly wonderful idea that others always come first and you always thereafter. This was […]
I have always been someone who didn’t do very well when exposed to long stretches of direct sunlight. Whenever I would be called to work on the farm, I would get up and 5am and put in as many hours as I could before the sun began to burn down. And every time I would […]
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