It continued to rain as I once more set out alone on The Path — ever essentially alone (and often wet, and tired, and hungry to boot), and yet also ever surrounded by Beauty, and also ever sharing the Way with like-Souled fellow wanderers … 😀 “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before […]
“And the real name of our connection to this everywhere named Earth is ‘work.’ For we are deeply connected by work even to the places where we don’t work, for all places are connected, and it is now becoming quite clear that we cannot exempt one place from our ruin of another. The name of […]
There were many ways I “did my part” by spreading the anti-exploitation & pro-justice vegan message, and yet one of the simplest and most fun (though admittedly probably also the least effective) of those ways was simply leaving the gates of dairy cow paddocks wide open whenever I walked through them … 😉 “There are […]
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers or discomfort,but rather to be fearless in facing them down.Let me not beg for the stilling of my own pain or suffering, but rather for the noble heart to conquer them both — by lessening them in others.” ~ via Rabindranath Tagore
Wonderfully reminiscent of the slate-roofed homes found in the Galician region of western Spain — a region through which I would later walk on my pilgrimage, this stone-tiled house reminded me that while our homes do indeed often re-energize our inner sense of solace, it is openly caring for others as if they belonged with […]
Just before she departed Madeleine was kind enough to give me two tennis balls, hoping that I would use them to self-massage my ailing back as I walked along the rest of The Way. Of course, we Peace Pilgrims aren’t big fans of self-assistance or self-furtherance in any form, so I chose instead to adorn […]
It was getting pretty toasty out on The Way when I walked up and into the small village of Montgross, and then up and into Maison de Rosalie — a relatively high-end restaurant and B&B … The place was pretty packed (with tourists and locals and pilgrims alike) when I entered, so I waited patiently […]
The Walk started looking UPward shortly thereafter (physically as well as metaphorically) when I smoothly flowed into the city of Nasbinal and spent several soothing seconds (actually many motion-free minutes) in the sanctuary of its local Catholic church … 😉 “To fall in love with the Divine is the greatest awakening. To seek the Divine […]
Afterwards, while hanging out in an outdoor café across the street from the church, my shoes presented their first real challenge of The Walk. As wonderful as they proved to be (with this one pair of Adidas indeed making it all the way to Chattanooga), the eyelets at the apex of their lacing did tend […]
I sat for awhile after repairing my shoes, and was considering heading back out onto The Way when a neighboring café-patron (who had seen my nifty repair-work and presumably read my smock) struck up quite a jovial conversation that soon became quite Meaning-full. It turned out that Francis was a local photographer taking a short […]
“Some have said that it is only through shadows that one comes to know the Light, and yet this is actually not at all the case. Each & every one of us knows the Light from our very first moment of consciousness — each & every one of us knows full well what is Love […]
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