“It’s true that the sanctuaries we call Home must be places that makes us feel joyful, safe, and comfortable, no doubt. And yet these important feelings are actually nothing but the tip of the spiritual iceberg. For any real Home must be a place that brings with it an ineffable and overwhelming sense of Peace […]
My shoes were starting to feel the wear & tear of The Road, and I was starting to wonder – with more than a slight amount of consternation* – whether or not they were going to make it all the way to Santiago. And as such I had been asking at almost every stop over […]
After I was done taping UP the soles of my shoes – not only to repair, but also to bolster – Frederic cut some jasmine from the veranda’s over-arching trellis and made a shrine to my footwear; shoes that had already made it so far, yes, but also – unbeknownst to me at the time […]
Not only were Frederic & Muriel truly angelic hosts (with everything I saw them do – and I mean literally every single act; from the first moment of my arrival to my final wave farewell – was overtly done to bring another person(s) either more joy or more peace), but the other pilgrims who joined […]
I wake early and easily after a wonderful night’s rest in my lovely Le Par Chemin loft bed and head down (post wake-up shower) for a lovely breakfast with Frederic & Francoise & Gerard (the latter of whom are early rising pilgrims like myself, and the former of whom has taken to serving visiting pilgrims […]
In honor of this most magical of places (one of the very few refuges I have encountered in my life where I felt truly & fully At HOME), I decide to empty my satchel of several stones I had collected along The Way, tossing them reverently into Le Par Chemin’s Peace-full courtyard, in the hopes […]
I enjoyed several more breakfasts that morning; sitting down and breaking bread anew each time another group of pilgrims awoke and began prepping for their next day’s next adventure. Frederic had already offered to have me stay an extra day at the hostel – ostensibly to be able to meet back up with my dear […]
Enjoy yet another lovely repast with Muriel after she awakes from a sound slumber, and then enjoy a relaxing morning of cleaning threefold – sweeping away the accumulated dirt & dust from the entire dining room/patio area, polishing off my Heart by saving a few snails who had errantly wandered away from homes lusher & […]
That day’s next group of pilgrims steadily arrives – first Michael (a young man from Nashville with whom I relaxed for a bit; witnessing my Walk and chatting of “home”), then Nathalie (who had told me to stop over at Le Par Chemin just a few days previous) & Maude (a 3rd World front-line humanitarian […]
I decide to Joy-fully serve this Joy-full place by engaging in a 2+ hour stint of weed-eating (pausing every now & then during the same to see if I could spot Mike & Cindy on the Road). Samuel from Switzerland and Nicole & Mary Jo sauntered in shortly thereafter, and Le Par Chemin’s latest “Pilgrim […]
Head to bed and gaze for awhile in reverent silence down upon a common Camino sighting – several pilgrims gathered together late into the evening in a warm huddle of humble & open-hearted sharing … “Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to […]
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