The town of Estella was only 5 kilometers further up The Road, and yet it was a particularly hot & dusty day, and I was most thankful for the cool refuge that the town’s Church of San Miguel offered me that day … “Out beyond all accepted & popular ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there […]
Thereafter I flowed along the Camino’s primary path through the city and came across a most majestic entrance to another church (San Pedro de la Rua), a church I remembered bot vividly & positively from my Walk through this same city those eleven year’s prior. Drawn almost without alternative up the stairs to its primary […]
I thought I was going to be walking alone once again as I departed from Estella, and yet I very soon met back up with Mate on the far outskirts of town and we decide to walk together a ways, with one of our more memorable stops soon arriving in the form of the Camino’s […]
“Every walker is a pilgrim, and every pilgrim is nothing less than a guard on patrol to protect the sanctity of the surrounding ineffable … Trails & walkways enable us all to better see the world; to notice fine aspects that are invisible from a car or a bus or an airplane. Walking allows for […]
If we allow ourselves to humbly embrace all our serendipitous encounters and honor all our seemingly random happenstances, we will find ourselves journeying into &/or through wondrous portions of life we never would have experienced otherwise. So it was for me today, walking with Mate to the lovely town of Azqueta – a town I […]
It turned out that Mate had stayed in Azqueta at quite the remarkable hostel the last time he himself had walked the Camino, and that is precisely where he led me upon entering that town. The locale was called The Black Pearl* and it proved to as much a rarity as its namesake, for rarely […]
True to form, I waited until everyone else had tucked themselves into bed before silently slipping downstairs to make my “bed” away from all others (again, primarily to spare them from the possibility – more & more the probability – that I would shock them awake with my snoring). And just as I was getting […]
It was not often that I came across such a sincere haven of Peace & Appreciation like I found in La Perla Negra, and it was just as rare that I encountered any group of fellow pilgrims that were so unified in their effusive support of my Mission of Peace as the ten cohabitants I […]
“The great mission of our day is not to explore the sea or space, or even conquer disease or tyranny. No, the actual Grand Quest which calls to the Hero in every one of us is to become fully alive – to stand up and claim our birthright, which is the peace and inner freedom […]
And so it was that the Sun gently rose upon yet another day of gloried Purpose, and I flowed smoothly through the gorgeous breezy dawn all the way to the town of Villamayor … “Heaven can only show us the way. We must each choose walk its path ourselves … Indeed, the way to the […]
“I have chosen to walk the longer road to freedom, and I have chosen not to falter. Yes, I have made mistakes along the way, and yet I have also discovered the secret that after climbing any great hill, one always finds that there are many more ascensions to summit. And so after having taken […]
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