I’m still not sure how I did it (having reinjured myself in the village of Dompierre), and yet I managed to flow slowly yet smoothly all the way to the small city of Corcelles, where I proceeded to ask several locals about the location of the local Catholic church, and was repeatedly told — in […]
I head onwards towards Payern and am approaching the outskirts of town when a local resident — a nice young man named Gengis — sees me limping along and calls out to me from across the street, asking what I’m up to and wondering if I need any assistance. He hears the abbreviated tale of […]
I walked into Payern proper and the city, even though in reality only a modest-sized township, felt almost oppressively HUGE and admittedly a bit overwhelming. My dis-ease was very soon lessened, however, by an incredibly kind woman who went literally out of her way to get me to the Catholic church and the local tourist […]
It was raining pretty steadily on this particular morning when I woke and Marie Jose had to leave early to run some errands, and yet she told me to stay as long as I wished in her peaceful home to wait out the storm ( 🙂 ) … It didn’t take long for the showers […]
The rain slackened once more and I set out again on the road, only to be met by the second of this day’s many obstacles. And yet despite the sharp pain in my legs & hips that made traversing even the most meager of obstacles (like the fallen tree pictured below) difficult to overcome, I […]
While it is true that there were several days during The Walk that proved to be far more difficult overall, it is just as true that this particular day proved to be by far the most painful of all when it came to taking physical steps forward. My shin-splint was still acting up by sending […]
I hadn’t planned on napping at all during my Walk — even on days as painful as today. That said, when a bench is offered, take the opportunity to receive the gift thereof — to be in wonderment over the Beauty that surrounds you, to smile and warmly greet who pass nearby, indeed to be […]
I hobble-limp for several more miles all the way into the medieval-looking town of Lucens (a town with its own castle, no less!) and try to continue onward when the path becomes completely obscured by a large construction project — and the rains begin to fall heavily once more. I walk onward anyway and am […]
I woke early & refreshed this morning and — despite the pain that still pulsed through my left shin and both hips — felt more than ready to head back out onto The Path. After sharing a delicious breakfast with Vanda & Laurent, their oldest son Fabio (pictured in the first comment box below) graciously […]
“At its deepest level, Enlightenment is man’s release from all self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is one’s inability to make use of understanding without direction from another, and self-incurred is this tutelage when its origin lies not in a lack of reason but rather in a lack of the courage needed to use it without another’s guidance […]
“Helping, fixing, and serving are fundamentally different ways of seeing life. When you seek to help you see life as weak, and when you try to fix you see life as broken. In stark contrast, when you choose to serve you see life as whole. From the perspective of help and repair we are all […]
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