It was standard practice for me to pause every time I passed a herd of dairy cows — to offer my heartfelt apologies at the violent death that awaited them all, and to encourage them all to make a unified run for freedom; to break through the nearest fence-line and hide away in the nearest […]
Fittingly enough, shortly after appropriately bemoaning the plight of so many of my bovine friends, I came across a relatively large herd — watched over by a relatively large bull — of dairy cows; all of them sitting or standing right in the middle of The Way … :O … Just as appropriately, I and […]
This was a particularly long (35+ km) day of walking — especially compared to most of the other earlier days of my pilgrimage, and yet I flowed onward anyway; knowing as I did so that my own current trek (no matter how astounding or incredible or exhausting) still paled in comparison to the much longer […]
After what seemed like a small slice of eternity I finally crested a hill and saw the medieval town of Aubrac in the distance, and after what felt like yet another tiny morsel of forever I finally entered that same village and started looking for a place to spend the night … It turned out […]
Despite the high likelihood of rain in both my near & distant future, it seemed more than fitting that I re-affirmed my faith in The Way (and the innate Goodness of those walking it) by finally discarding the impromptu trash-sack-raincoat I had been carrying with me ever since that very rainy morning back in Denzlingen, […]
I was up especially early this morning, partially due to my tendency to do so anyway, and partially due to last night’s fellow pilgrims being an exceptionally noisy lot … 🙂 “No matter the distance or difficulty, even the longest way will ever have its close. And no matter the harms or hazards, even the […]
“How lovely and how lively a river is. The water flowing through it is never the same water and the water flowing within it is never truly still. It’s always shifting and it’s always on the move. And because of this incessant motion over time the river itself changes as well — widening and deepening […]
“I have not always chosen the safest path, and have made my share of mistakes. Sometimes I have jumped too soon and failed to appreciate the consequences. And yet I always learned something important along the way: I learned to heed the call of my Heart. I learned that the safest path is often not […]
I was walking through a quite lush and lovely forest when the rains started to fall. And it was just at that moment that I also spotted a sign for “Ecologite Sarbonnel” just off the side of the path. The rains were falling pretty thickly at this point, and the sign said that the Gite […]
I have always loved moss — the glowing viridescence of its hue, the ubiquitous way it covers banks and trees and river stones and pathways, the softness of its feel underfoot, the earthy smell with which it imbues the surrounding air, the way it wraps all sound up in a blanket of pseudo-silence — in […]
The walking was quite pleasant on this day (despite the light-yet-steady rainfall) and I soon found myself flowing into the church sanctuary in the beautiful town of St. Chely, where I once more paused and reveled in a heartfelt reverence for my life and The Way, all while remembering the soft conversation I had just […]
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