Day 48c: Dearth within the Abundance … (06/01/2019)
One of the more intriguing (and indeed ironic*) discoveries of The Walk was the apparent fact that the closer one was to an open bakery (like the one pictured below that I came across this morning in the town of Montfaucon), the less likely it became for sustenance to be offered by the people one met nearby … Indeed, with very few exceptions, it was bakers — and even their bakery customers — who proved to be the class of stranger who was least likely to offer me food during my Journey … :O
“To give without merit or even the slightest expectation of restitution; that is how we ought to Love.” ~ via Criss Jami
*It was ironic in the sense that the Camino was — at least since the 1200’s — a primarily Catholic pilgrimage; a Christian religion ostensibly steeped in the selfless love and abject generosity of The Way of Christ; a selfless expression of service & humility that Jesus himself symbolically represented with references to wheat &/or bread … 😉
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