Every day on this Walk I woke with a refreshed sense of resolve; a renewed heartfelt desire to walk another day for Peace. And so it was on this particular morning as well – as I woke, as I shared a nice breakfast with Baptiste, and as I set forth munching on the Zwieback bread […]
Even though I had veered off the Camino yesterday to make it my monastic stay-over, it turned out that an alternate return-route back to The Way had already been established and signposted. Baptiste told me about the same and showed me where to find its trail-head (a gift that allowed me to avoid the drudgery […]
“The road of a 1000 miles begins with a single first step, the road to freedom begins with a shout that fires the charge, and the Greatness Road begins with a question that fires the spark of Love – and ends with the resolve to see Love through no matter what thwarts or hinders.” ~ […]
It was some pretty smooth sauntering all the way to the city of Montcuq – so smooth, in fact, that I only stopped briefly in its somewhat lovely Eglise de St. Privat* before sauntering onward. And when I say “somewhat lovely,” know that I am referring to its ambience and its architecture, NOT its stained-glass […]
“If we focus too intensely on the road we are walking, we miss the wonders that reside thereupon – the scintillating beauties, the serendipitous encounters, the other sentient lives walking or simply being nearby. On the other hand, when we do the opposite – when we allow our gaze to continuously wander in search of […]
I ambled onward along The Way’s varied pathways until I finally reached the small town of Rouillac and the adorable church on its outskirts. Other than the exceptionally warm ambience, there wasn’t much remarkable about the sanctuary in general, and yet I was especially intrigued by yet another sighting of St. Anthony and his pig […]
That same morning I had received a t-shirt from Baptiste before I started walking, and yet I had also known from the start that I wouldn’t be keeping it long.* That prediction turned out to be true enough indeed when I chose to decorate the same and leave it outside the Rouillac church to be […]
Even though this day was one of very few direct interactions with others (I didn’t see many pilgrims on the road, and today’s path didn’t pass by many local residents either), it was – quite thankfully – a day that offered an unusually prevalent amount of “donativo” stands; tables set up beside The Way and […]
“Walking causes absorption of all that is greater. Now by walking I mean walking distant lengths; breathing in the height of the mountains when you see them in the near or far distance; breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during every slow descent; breathing in the thick lushness of […]
The Way suddenly begins to climb quite steeply – up, Up, UP along a rocky, windy, heavily wooded path – a path that would have been more readily beautiful had it not been so darn exhausting … 😉 … And then, the summit of this particular ascent was reached, and the path peeled away from […]
“Nature’s particular gift to the walker, simply through the semi-mechanical act of walking, is the the walker’s mind is set into fluid motion; made garrulous and exalted, even a little mad – quite certainly hyper-creative and supra-sensitive. And the longer one walks, the more these gifts escalate in their intensity – until at last the […]
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