Day 065p: Marie Agnes and the Mediatheque … (06/18/2019)
It was still blazing hot when I left the church and many of the nearby businesses (including the local tourist office, another place where pilgrims could usually find some solace) were closed for lunch, so I wandered about town a bit, wondering whether or not I should just go ahead and head back out onto The Way and into the heat. Shortly thereafter, however, I walked past the city’s multi-media library to find that it was indeed open. Even better, it was cool and peaceful inside. And even better than that, the “librarian” on call – a lovely woman named Marie Agnes (on the far left in the picture below) – was exceedingly kind; so kind that even though she didn’t fully comprehend my Walk (neither how nor why I was walking it – my French was too poor and my English too rapid to communicate the same), she proceeded to shower me with gifts from the time I was entered to the time I left. First she told me to sit down at the public computer and take as long as I wanted while sending out my latest Walk-update to friends & family, then she brought me a cup of coffee and asked me if I needed anything else, then gently making sure that I properly spelled Lauzerte in my email, then giving me a bag of fresh cherries and a box of vegan cookies ( :O ), and finally encouraging me to check in with the pastor of another Catholic church just around the corner before I left town … 😀
“The Heart often has valid reasons
of which reason can know nothing.”
~ via Blaise Pascal
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