Day 50i: Feeling the next thing Wondrous … (06/03/2019)

Second only to the mountain-spired chapel of Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe was Le Puy’s primary Catholic church, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Puy itself — one of France’s three primary departure hubs for the Camino de Santiago; a building the first sight of which forcing me to fully stop in my tracks and stare silent and dumbfounded, with heart pried wide open and mouth involuntarily agape … 😀

“While it is true that only one in ever ten thousand can look upon the world’s smaller things with proper amazement, just as few choose to pause in the presence of the phenomenal and soak it up in raw wonderment — no pondering or judgment or analysis or comparison. Just reveling in the ineffable beauty of those moments, sitting fully in an unsullied moment, in the presence of an unsullied vision, feeling it all with an unsullied heart.” ~ inspired by Amor Towles