I was up pretty early after a fantastic night’s sleep and headed back into the church sanctuary to offer a few silent-yet-heartfelt farewells to the space and its still-sleeping wardens before heading onward. After doing so, I notice a large trove of empty vases stored behind the altar on my way out — a collection […]
“I don’t think people can ever truly know who they truly are. So we all have to be humble enough to simply live with the ultimate mysterious question: Who am I? We will ever be mysteries unto ourselves, and as such our calling is not to one day come to ‘know ourselves,’ but rather to […]
How wonderful it is that past challenges overcome (e.g. clambering over HUGE fallen tree trunks) and past lessons learned (e.g. looking for & finding waymarkers both very small and very well hidden) all serve to help us more fluidly remain calm when fresh lessons and new challenges cross our current pathway … 😉 “Life itself […]
During my Walk, there were three primary messages I chose to share with folks whenever asked to do so; by far the three most important messages available to humanity in this day & age. And those messages were the following: 01) the need for people (especially those people living in the United States) to disengage […]
I walked into the small town of Bursinel, soon saw a sign overhanging the entrance to “Clef d’Or” (translation: “the Golden Key”) — a “Communal Albergue” (or “Community Hostel”, a title which normally indicated a place that was pilgrim-friendly), and entered the same; hoping for a glass of ice water to dampen the heat and […]
“Allow me to repeat some advice I have given before, that being: Most people really should make a radical change in their lifestyle and begin to boldly do the things they have until now been too hesitant or too afraid to attempt … So many live quite unhappy circumstances and yet simultaneously refuse to take […]
“Every day the Divine invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip with any specific destination or rigid itinerary. Rather it is a journey that is malleable and ever-fluid. For we are not asked to go anywhere or walk in any particular way. We are simply summoned to fully BE wherever […]
I walked all the way through the town of Gland into the industrial outskirts on the far side of the same and was feeling pretty worn down, very hungry, and extremely thirsty. The buildings here were all office-park-esque, and I was less than hopeful that sustenance of any kind (liquid or edible) would be found […]
“The most profound transformations happen when we make a conscious decision to walk while holding everything encountered to be deeply sacred. This mindset allows us to let go of the landscape dwindling off behind us, read the landscape stretching out before us, and cherish the landscape surrounding us — imbued with the stable beauty of […]
The day proceeds, as days are wont to do, and my hips soon begin to tell me in no uncertain terms that I need to slow waaaaaay down — so slow way down I do; limping along step by step by step; looking for a bench upon which to pause and rest. No such place-for-purposeful-pause […]
The day begins to close as I wobble into Nyon and head smoothly & directly to the Notre Dame de Nyon (the city’s catholic church) … It is just past business hours when I knock on the door to the church’s administrative offices, and yet Christine is fortunately still on hand. She hears the general […]
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