Whenever we set forth anew in life, gratitude can always be wholeheartedly given — and this, whether we are looking back from whence we have walked, or are gazing forward towards wherever we thereafter choose to flow … 🙂 “Whenever a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. Whenever there is darkness, dare to be […]
Even the ants were still sleeping when I set forth this morning, and I rolled into the town of Bessey with the church still locked up tight and most of the local residents not yet out & about. It remains true to this day that resting within the peaceful confines of the Catholic churches I […]
There is a simple way to shake your world to its very foundations — and indeed it is the only way to effectively do so, and that way is this one: Especially in your personal times of shadow, beam the Light of your Love into the darkness nearby … 😉 “Only in the most gentle […]
And I came upon yet another Way-side cross, and even though I am but a mere follower of The Way of Christ (and as such most certainly NOT a Christian), I offered my homage anyway — not to the religion it flagged that came from mere men, but rather to the highest ethical standard at […]
“It is true that what we know matters, and yet what we do with what we know matters more. Likewise, where we choose to go matters as well, and yet who we choose to become while going there matters by far most of all.” ~ inspired by Brené Brown
I successfully headed into and through the villages of Goely and Buisson, before losing The Way completely just outside the outskirts of Maclans. It seems that some local “hooligans” ( fancy term for anyone who chooses to gain far too much amusement from others’ discomfort &/or at their expense) had intentionally removed a Camino waymarker […]
“Regarding pilgrimage, there is no point in hurrying along for the primary reason that you are not actually attempting to get anywhere in particular. In this sense, however far or for however long you plod onward you are always in the same place: on the path; on your way. It is where you were the […]
The Way then led me into the delightfully beautiful, stone-wall embroidered & flower-laden little town of Pourzin, where I see a local resident (Nathalie) watering her garden, where I ask her humbly for some of the same, where she then asks me about my Walk, and where she then brings out her young son (Mathieu) […]
After receiving my Walk’s very first offer of chocolate, it seemed appropriate to promise both Self & Maker that I would not eat of the same until I came fluidly upon the next wayside bench or rest stop. Of course, the Camino — like the Divine — is known for its somewhat pointed sense of […]
One thing did occur on this oppressively hot & glaring afternoon: I “officially” passed this particular waymarker — a monument noting that there were now less than 1000 miles to walk before Santiago could be reached … 🙂 “All that we know, soon shall be replaced, just as indeed time itself will end. Our eyes […]
While my Great Walk did indeed prove without a shadow of any doubt that our greatest Power comes in those moments we feel weakest — that our LOVE is never stronger, and our Peace thus never greater, than in those times when we least wish or feel bale to give the same, it also offered […]
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