“I keep my kindness in my eyes, gently folded around their center, like a velvety, blue blanket that ever warms my vision. I keep my dignity upon my chin, like a torch held up high, forgiving all who have betrayed me, radiating a silent yet strong message. I keep my gratitude in my smile,a glistening […]
I got up and ambled on easily enough, up & out of Bourg Argental, and let The Way guide me smoothly all the way to the neighboring hamlet of Burdignes. It was here that I then saw what I though was a pilgrim’s hostel by the side of the path, so I stopped in innocently […]
I was feeling on top of the world (after being treated like true royalty so recently back in Burdignes), and as such it was only fitting that my newfound hubris was met with a just-as-devout skepticism immediately thereafter; first & foremost in the form of the neighboring farmer who, after being hailed and asked if […]
Sometimes it’s good to be informed of the more-than-obvious; especially at the end of a long and somewhat exhausting day of walking … 😉 😀 “And they dared to brave unknown terrors, and they dared to do mighty deeds — to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before, and unconditionally Love those who […]
I finally made it to the village of St. Sauver en Rue, and eventually found Annie & Pierre’s hostel (the Gite Rural Paysan) on the outskirts of town. No one was home when I arrived and entered, and yet a note had been left on the dining room table by the absentee owners — a […]
“I have walked that long road to freedom, and while I have tried not to falter, I have indeed made missteps along the way. And yet during this walking I have discovered a great secret — that after climbing any great hill, one always discovers that there are many more hills on the horizon; always […]
One of the advantages of sleeping on the nearside outskirts of any particular town (in this case St. Sauver en Rue) was the gorgeous, almost medievally mystical vistas that graced my eyes while passing through (or in this case, above) those same, mostly deserted villages during the initial moments of the early mornings that followed. […]
Along the entirety of the Walk to this point, I had been gently yet insistently telling all the dairy cows I came across that their human “owners” actually did NOT have their best interests at heart, and that they should all band together as soon as possible and make a run for the nearest copse […]
“Just as the Camino ever places waymarkers alongside the path, the Universe keeps putting signposts in your life. Both are sometimes hard to see, and yet both are regularly there nonetheless. And the choice ever remains to either ignore them or embrace them. On the Camino, you can forge ahead along the shorter or the […]
“When it comes to your life and its Calling, there is an enormous field of possibility between YES and NO. It’s the huge area between the path you choose to walk and all others you leave behind; it’s the gigantic gap between who you thought you could be and who you choose to become; it’s […]
I flowed smoothly into the small village of Les Setoux thereafter, and stopped into Le Combalou (a local hostel) to ask for a glass of water to lubricate my Walk, only to have Chantal (co-owner of said establishment) offer me a coffee and a croissant instead* … 😀 “Love is the discipline in which each […]
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