It was pretty clear to Julio that I wasn’t doing so well physically (more due to my handful of leg & hip injuries than my equally noticeable fatigue), so he graciously chose to send his friends ahead and slowly walk with me the rest of the way into Najera proper – where he then guided […]
After dinner I chose to sit outside and soak up a level of profound calm and soul-full gratitude that I had not known in many a moon – well, in at least the past few days … 😉 “In this beautiful life I wish to keep walking gently. I want to treat all of life […]
As usual, I was once again offered a soft bed upon which to lay my head. And as usual*, I chose instead to find a more humble & solitudinous place to rest the same … *Far more often I chose to do so to keep from inflicting my fellow pilgrims with my occasional bouts of […]
Rising super early and setting forth into the thick calm of the pre-dawn morning was always a special Joy along The Way – this particular morning was no exception … “And with this steady passage of days walking through this godly isolation wilderness, my heart grew calm just as steadily. It seemed to slowly fill […]
Whether walking a pilgrimage or living through the everyday, carrying symbolic trinkets & baubles can prove to be powerfully Meaning-full – for one, allowing the traveler to always have a gift on hand that is ready to be given to another who might be in need of such a kindness, and for another, to allow […]
“Until every soul is freely permitted – and indeed encouraged – to investigate every book and every creed and every dogma on its own merits (or lack thereof), the world cannot be truly free. In truth, humankind will remain enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man & women to have his […]
I flowed strong and smoothly this morning along a path that was just as strong and smooth; through the towns of Azofra & Ciruena; sauntering past fellow pilgrims along the path with an ease of smile & gait; slowing down just enough each time thereafter to allow each of them the chance to query me […]
“Yearn not for the easy path, but rather for the right one. For ‘easy’ and ‘right’ are almost never compatible. The moment you choose to boldly begin your truer journey, the entire Universe will begin to revel in your song.” ~ via Craig Lounsbrough & Debasish Mridha “Beyond the hurt, beyond the anger, beyond the […]
What a difference a decade makes! Eleven years ago Santo Domingo was a veritable oasis of peace along my Camino – a rest-stop filled with the friendliness of fellow pilgrims and the sacred gentleness of chanting friars. Today that same locale – for whatever reasons (in all probability a combination of shifts in my own […]
It was only 5 miles further on that I came to the lovely city of Granon. The day’s loose plan was to flow all the way to Tosantos that evening (one of the handful of peaceful stopovers from my 2008 Camino that I definitely wished to revisit), so I had no intention of stopping here […]
Well, as it turns out, the famed Granon donativo hostel (about which I had already so many wondrous things) was quite literally connected to the same church in which I had paused, and its humble, back-courtyard entrance was smoothly stumbled upon the moment I exited the same. Not ever one to thumb my nose at […]
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