I then easily made my way into the lovely peaceful town of Rabe de las Culzadas … “It was in truth a perfect summer day. The air was sweet and gentle and the sky stretched high and wide, an immense intense blue. He gazed around him in wonder, certain that the last time he had […]
It turned out that some wise administrator of the town (the local mayor, perhaps) had decided to make the place a residence for beauty as much as for people, and had commissioned several talented artists to adorn its walls with wonderments … “After a brief sedentary hiatus, our species is once more resuming its ancient […]
Just like the sign carved into the facing wall of this pathside shrine said, Love & Peace must ever come first … “Love is the only viable answer to any question. It is the only thing that will effectively function in any situation. It is both the route and the destination. It is the medication […]
“Never rule out a goal because you think it’s unattainable. Be audacious in your living. There are always a number of ‘best possible paths.’ Your job is simply look about you each day, find one of those trails, and have the courage to set forth upon it. What your ego thinks is attainable is but […]
It wasn’t long after leaving town that I came across a beautiful, shade-tree ensconced rest-stop alongside the suroundingly dusty The Path. And who should be sitting therein alone but Ferdinand (from France) – a well-worn veteran pilgrim who was walking the Camino for the umpteenth time. I pause for a bit to chat warmly with […]
“You are not on a path; you are the path. While it admittedly almost always seems otherwise, you are Higher Being. You are the path that Divinity is being allowed to walk in order to awaken as Itself, and you are ever free to act with according boldness.” ~ inspired by Dana Hutton
After a time of solitude along the day’s bright & dusty trail, I eventually walked into – and then smoothly out of – the town of Hornillos; stopping only briefly at a closed bar to admire the words of John O’Donahue painted lightly upon its veranda wall … “May all that feels unforgiven in you […]
The tiny hostel of San Bol was possibly the most amazing place I was blessed to visit/stay during my entire 2008 Camino pilgrimage, and it was one of the very small handful of places I had deeply desired to see again on this one. And on this day that wish was fulfilled, and in its […]
I was immersed in wholehearted gratitude as I walked around the San Bol grounds, and yet in truth as I peered through its shuttered windows I did find myself wishing to simply be able to – even if only for a few moments – walk inside. And no sooner did that wish pass through the […]
Without question, there are few places along the Camino – if not in the entire world – that harbor as much Beauty & Solace as the grounds of San Bol … “I have drunk fully the day and swallowed both Sun and shade. My walking, a dance of abandon and a song blanketed in rapture. […]
And thereafter, after I had filled my water bottle with the holier stuff of San Bol’s interminable (and interminably peaceful) spring and headed back out onto The Way, I almost immediately encountered Patrica & Kathleen – two septuagenarian pilgrims from Ireland, the former of whom in the process of walking her 17th Camino pilgrimage, and […]
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