I am the last to depart this morning, and share an extended and heartfelt farewell with Annie and her dog Paddy before heading back out onto The Way — overflowing with Gratitude; warmed thereby from within despite the morning’s misty rains cooling me from without … 🙂 “It is only when we boldly renounce everything […]
“I have always had a profound love for pilgrimages, and can well imagine that if I had lived in the Middle Ages would have spent most of my days walking their many ways. Pilgrims tend to leave their more petty cares at home, so that they might rediscover what it means to truly Care. Pilgrims […]
I found it fascinating to see so may sculptures and stained glass images of Jesus Christ that had him holding up various Indian mudras (most often with his right hand; the hand of offering &/or teaching &/or blessing in the Jewish culture of his day) while walking along The Way. Here, in the stained glass […]
“Beyond Sufism, beyond Buddhism, beyond Christian mysticism, beyond humanism, beyond atheism, agnosticism, and pantheism, beyond them all there is a river – a river that is pure – a river that is chaste – a river that is incorruptible – a river that has the power to breathe life into even the most degraded society […]
“They want us to be afraid. They want us to barricade our doors and hide our children. They want us to hate ‘the other’ and practice aggression. They want us to be inhuman. They want us to throw out our kindness and bury our love. Their aim is to take our light and keep us […]
“This long & winding path is not one of my conscious or planned choosing. Indeed it is an arduous route often laden with peril and discomfort. And yet after a time of persistently humble confrontation, I have finally chosen to wholeheartedly embrace this way — a path that is solely, and Souly, my own. And […]
This day’s saunter, as more than a few of this Journey’s walking days turned out to be, proved to be a more difficult one — with my energy levels lower than normal, and my hips hurting more than usual, and the folks I met along The Way not seeming as keen or as able to […]
I arrive at the aforementioned “hippy home”, where a kind Nana is home and somewhat sympathetic to my Mission — not enough so to offer me a place of refuge (her parents were not home at the time) and yet more than enough so for her to personally accompany me next door to the home […]
I wake after a truly fantastic night’s sleep, create the “Peace Stone” gift (pictured below) that I would later give to Ludivine & Co., enjoy a lovely breakfast with them all – including uber-cute Gerris (also pictured below, in his father’s blacksmith workshop)*, and then flow onward … 🙂 “Watching the moon at dawn — […]
“We all become visionaries whenever we choose to notice the quite simple truth that our very own Soul resides in all things.” ~ via Henri Amiel
I am flowing pretty smoothly this morning and fully enjoying the easy groove of the day’s walk, and yet still I am called to pause reverently in the presence of Cow #0081 — a gentle, beautiful being who is just as innocent and just as loving as any dog or cat companion I have ever […]
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