I had been carrying this “All roads lead Homeward” stone for many days by this point — a point when I finally came to a profound and most important realization: the realization that while it is true that there are many roads one can take away from Home, there is only one single Road — […]
“To calmly stoop and remove thorns from the paths of those who have filled our own path with thorns; to walk without purse or bedroll for those who have stolen from us; to share beauty and wonderment with those who have tainted our past with shadow and regret — that is why we walk, and […]
I figured that the town of Bessey would ultimately provide that evening’s most likely sleepover scenario (possibly on a church pew, or a parish floor, or maybe even a bus top bench), and yet a few kilometers before town I saw a sign for a local hostel and I decided to veer right and stop […]
Whenever we set forth anew in life, gratitude can always be wholeheartedly given — and this, whether we are looking back from whence we have walked, or are gazing forward towards wherever we thereafter choose to flow … 🙂 “Whenever a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. Whenever there is darkness, dare to be […]
Even the ants were still sleeping when I set forth this morning, and I rolled into the town of Bessey with the church still locked up tight and most of the local residents not yet out & about. It remains true to this day that resting within the peaceful confines of the Catholic churches I […]
There is a simple way to shake your world to its very foundations — and indeed it is the only way to effectively do so, and that way is this one: Especially in your personal times of shadow, beam the Light of your Love into the darkness nearby … 😉 “Only in the most gentle […]
And I came upon yet another Way-side cross, and even though I am but a mere follower of The Way of Christ (and as such most certainly NOT a Christian), I offered my homage anyway — not to the religion it flagged that came from mere men, but rather to the highest ethical standard at […]
“It is true that what we know matters, and yet what we do with what we know matters more. Likewise, where we choose to go matters as well, and yet who we choose to become while going there matters by far most of all.” ~ inspired by Brené Brown
I successfully headed into and through the villages of Goely and Buisson, before losing The Way completely just outside the outskirts of Maclans. It seems that some local “hooligans” ( fancy term for anyone who chooses to gain far too much amusement from others’ discomfort &/or at their expense) had intentionally removed a Camino waymarker […]
“Regarding pilgrimage, there is no point in hurrying along for the primary reason that you are not actually attempting to get anywhere in particular. In this sense, however far or for however long you plod onward you are always in the same place: on the path; on your way. It is where you were the […]
The Way then led me into the delightfully beautiful, stone-wall embroidered & flower-laden little town of Pourzin, where I see a local resident (Nathalie) watering her garden, where I ask her humbly for some of the same, where she then asks me about my Walk, and where she then brings out her young son (Mathieu) […]
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