Sister Marie Celine soon returned with the abbey’s Mother Superior, who — after listening herself to the overarching tale of my Walk, along with a brief explanation as to why I am doing so with no money, no tent, no sleeping bag, and no raincoat — took me across the street and set me up […]
After setting out this morning, it didn’t take long before I finally saw my first waymarker specifically mentioning the city of Le Puy en Velay — one of the three primary Camino starting points in France, and a destination about which I have been dreaming since even before leaving Stuttgart … 🙂 “The blue mountain […]
“A bell is not a bell until it is rung, anda song is no song unless it is sung.A path goes nowhere until it is walked, anda kind word means nothing unless it is talked.Like these, the Love in our heartswasn’t put there to stay,For love isn’t LOVE, until given away.”~ via Oscar Hammerstein
I flowed thereafter into and through the towns of Assieu, Cheyssieu, and Auberives — the latter of which providing not only the usual beautiful landscapes, but also a lovely encounter with local resident Genevieve, who used my request for water as an opportunity to teach her young daughter how Good & Right it feels to […]
Truth can be Seen everywhere, if one has but the humility to truly look … Truth can be felt in every encounter, if one has but the courage to truly Care … 🙂 “Just as the past is always behind us — a place where nothing can be done about it, Love is ever simultaneously […]
“Here, a bit of higher perspective on travel and Love: Though it is true enough that we are always arriving and departing and traveling and arriving, it is just as true that we are eternally anchored to the one and single location we happen to be. Just like pilgrimage, our real destination comes not from […]
Quite thankfully, my hips felt almost back to normal today (though they would continue to flare up painfully every now & then for many more weeks to come) and I was able to walk well enough all the way to the small city of Clonas sur Vareze, where I encountered an unusually uncomfortable obstacle that […]
I headed thereafter into Clonas sur Vareze’s public media center in the hopes of posting a message online about The Walk and my current whereabouts, and yet the public computers there were not available. No matter, for the administrator thereof (Isabelle), after hearing the how’s and why’s of my Walk, lets me use her own […]
The Way took me thereafter through the village of St. Alban du Rhone and then along a treacherously narrow pathway that ran tightly alongside a roadway & then a long bridge — both built well enough to handle their prevalent population of speeding cars, and yet neither built very well at all to safely service […]
After successfully crossing the aforementioned bridge, I entered the town of Chavanay, where I had at first hoped to hunker down and spend the night. And yet the local church was locked up tight for the day — as was the local youth hostel, and the good people working in the city’s town hall really […]
Despite the relatively chilly reception I had received from the greater portion of Chavanay, it didn’t take long for my spirits to soar again, as I ambled up a slight-but-steady incline to the lovely mountainside Chapelle du Calvaire (originally dedicated in 1724, and fully restored in the year 2003) … 🙂 “Hennessy looked up plaintively […]
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