“Ultimately, we are all alone on our journey. We might be surrounded by fellow travelers, yes, and we might regularly be accompanied by others alongside, and yet we will begin and we will fulfill and we will end our lives in total solitude. And that is the key word — Solitude. For if you choose […]
I loved the soulful ambience of this tiny church in the tiny village of Tredou — almost as much as its stained-glass window depicting Jesus in my second-favorite “How the Hell did all these self-professed Christians end up getting my super-simple message so damn wrong?”* pose … 😀 “For the time is coming when people […]
Onward and onward I walked on this beautiful day — eventually through the little village of Verrieres, where I was able to powerfully witness to both the ultimate futility of politics and the abject power of the Way of Peace; doing so to not only for a local woman who I had spotted out working […]
It was frankly hard to believe that the town of Estaing was even real as I rounded a bend in the trail and saw its majestically medieval spires rising up before me — right out of a King Arthur movie, that vision was, truly … 😀 “The castle, and all it represents, will be with […]
Yes, the medieval city of Estaing was stunningly beautiful, and yes, the employee in the tourist information center was kind enough to let me send out a quick email update for free (to all my friends & family who had been following The Walk online), and yes, I was able to meet back up with […]
I had been told by fellow pilgrims in Estaing that the next several kilometers would be a very difficult climb … In one of the few times that Camino rumor matched pilgrimage reality, the steepness of the path didn’t disappoint … 🙂 “Destiny rarely stands in the way of the wise, and never in the […]
As I was trudging up the day’s long &steep incline, a fellow pilgrim named Mike blew right past me in a most fit & quite impressive fashion, pausing just long enough to exchange a few pilgrim-pleasantries and inform me that he had been regularly walking around 50+ kilometers (that’s over 30 miles) over the past […]
“On any long walk, after inevitable periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body become disunited to the point that they seem to be completely different elements; as though my body were only a home within which my mind has been associated but is by no means bound. In such moments my […]
This proved too be one of the most arduous days of walking to date — 37+ kilometers long, comprised of either steep & prolonged pathways &/or rock & mud-strewn trails; the last several hours of which all under a steady rainfall … 🙁 To make matters even more challenging, I was repeatedly rejected at the […]
I trudge-limped onward into the gathering gloom — my clothes soaked and my shoes muddy and my body exhausted and my legs once more in quite a bit of pain, and finally made it to the outskirts of the small village of Golinhac. I was pretty much at wit’s end at this point, and would […]
No matter where we are or where we are going or what we have planned, it is always Right & Good to start each day off with a conscious dose of gratitude (mixed with a sincere expression of resolve — an openly professed intention to go forth that particular day to make the world a […]
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