I think someone forgot to give these dogs the memo … 🙂 “Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by ‘coming out on top’ have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion, and community. These days people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods […]
While I did briefly stop by the Albergue Ave Fenix this morning*, it didn’t take long for me to reach the tidy city of Villafranca, and it didn’t take long for me to cruise straight through the same … *I did so to thank owner Jose (who was still sleeping at the time) for his […]
The walking then became quite smooth – smooth gaited along a smooth roadway next to a smoothly flowing river, and it was seemingly no time at all befiore I came to an interesting crossroads: a T-intersection that offered a choice between Madrid (where I had been offered to go via Sybille and where I had […]
I always enjoyed passing through smaller villages like Pereje – places where the warmth of community was easily palpable, and where residents so obviously worked to make their Home a place of peace & beauty … “The real name of our connection to this everywhere different and differently named Earth is ‘Work.’ And we are […]
“Walking shares with both creating and working that crucial element of pure engagement – the melding of both the body & the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and remaking the body through the world … And the more bold our walking becomes, the more all-encompassing become that re-making. Removing […]
I thereafter walked easily through the lovely village of Trabadelo and into the town of La Portela de Valcarce, where I once more briefly paused in the local church (the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista) to offer my heartfelt – both thanks for my Journey & The Way itself … “There are some things I […]
I then kept on walking, for more than few kilometers alongside a lovely shaded stream, until I came to the town of Ambasmestas, where to my great & pleasant surprise I once more met Adam and his lovely family, who were resting by the wayside. Warm greetings were shared all around, and Adam’s father Jim […]
Then it was into the town of Vega de Valcarce, a tiny & lovely hamlet, the beauty of which being somehow magnified and made even more wondrous by the massive modern skyway that crossed & dominated its skies … “It can be fairly stated that Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste […]
The lovely Pogueno Potala hostel in Vega de Valcarce was one of the more special stopovers during my 2008 Camino pilgrimage. Luis, the refuge’s primary hospitalero, cared for me so graciously back then, and I decided I would stop by once more on my current Walk to offer him an additional Thank You for the […]
“‘Do you believe in flying saucers?’ they asked me. ‘Do you believe in telepathy? — or ancient astronauts? — or the Bermuda Triangle? — or a one true creation of the Universe – or life after death?’ ‘No’, I quite simply replied. ‘No, no, no, no, and once again, no.’ And then one of those […]
I then flowed into the village of Herrerias and paused for a time to enjoy the majestic music of Maikel and his self-made and self-named instrument “Mia” (“Monstruo Instrumento Abracadabrante”). Local hospitalera Maria is also there and we all bond sweetly for awhile; reveling in Maikel’s music and the serendipitous wonders of The Way. She […]
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