It hadn’t been the longest walk in the world (only some 13 kilometers, or about 8 miles) when I rolled into the sweet village of Kleinluetzel and yet I was already pretty fatigued and my ankles were already aching & swollen again, so I entered the local Catholic church and rested there awhile. The church […]
Still as true today as it was when I first thought it back in 2008 (during my first and only other Camino pilgrimage) … “Thinking today about how time & space become oddly distorted while walking any pilgrimage; how space often seems to bend and time seems to almost disappear altogether — how sometimes I […]
One of the actions that I engaged throughout the entire length of The Walk was openly apologizing to any & all the dairy cows I met along the way. Yes, it is admittedly true that the cows I saw who were enclosed in lush pastures on small Swiss & French farms did seem to be […]
I serendipitously roll into the town of Delemont (the Camino actually skirted this village entirely, but I was so cold & wet & tired that I kept my head down at the appropriate crossroads and conveniently assumed the path led through town) and decided I would waddle into the first open establishment I could to […]
I was pretty gassed when I walked into the lovely town of Vicques and — as usual — I headed straight for the local Catholic church. Unusually, the church itself was closed (Catholic churches, unlike their Protestant counterparts, were almost always open havens of rest & respite during the entirety of my Walk), and yet […]
“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt steadily and become like a running brook that sings its melody long into the night. And then to wake at dawn with a fully winged heart, and give thanks for another day of Loving.” ~ via Kahlil Gibran
I flow pretty smoothly this morning into and through the town of Rebevelier, and then things start to get a bit interesting — the kind of interesting that would cling to my days for the rest of my Walk through the Switzerland; the kind of interesting that comes into being when the governmental body of […]
Whenever we look back on our lives most difficult times, a characteristic they all often have in common is a sense of sheer unpredictability — the fact that we were often totally unprepared for the challenges they offered, calling forth the feeling we had in those moments that we “just didn’t see it coming” … […]
A prudent Life-Tip: The time to assess the relative ease or difficulty of any trek or task is after one has completed the same … 🙂 As joyous as I felt at finally attaining the summit of my day’s jaunt (having limped all the way up to the very crest of the Jura mountains in […]
Well, it took me quite a while to sloooooowly navigate the shockingly steep descent mentioned previously, and no sooner had I done so than I discovered that said trail was not meant for pilgrims at all — that I had actually taken the wrong route off the mountain; a route that took MUCH longer to […]
“We tend to focus on our differences & disagreements, and yet all too easily forget that we all gaze upon the same flowers gloriously blooming into each new Spring. Indeed, not far beneath what appears to separate us from one another are comparable dreams of justice & harmony, snugly alongside the innumerable opportunities we all […]
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