And then it was that I entered the town of Villadangos and realized that I had less than 200 miles to go before Santiago – that I had already come soooo far, and that I was already indeed soooo near, AND that I was even now fully living Love & Kindness in this very Here&Now; […]
I exited Villadangos as smoothly as I entered it, and soon thereafter came across fellow pilgrims Ismael & Francisco sitting by the Wayside. They were intrigued by my smock (and maybe my smile) and called me over to them. We visited awhile together and I was able to gently witness to them about my Walk’s […]
“Rejoice, my friends! Rejoice in every selfless work of your gentle hands. Be happy and grateful that you are ever valuable and ever able to serve, that what you say and do isn’t ever taken for granted by the Cosmos or taken for a ride by those more noble. Rejoice that you have rejected the […]
I ended up flowing that afternoon all the way to the town of Hospital de Orbigo and intuitively walked straight to the pseudo-famed Albergue Verde (The Green Hostel) – not knowing whether I would be received there at all, much less with open-hearted generosity, and yet feeling as though it was the first place to […]
I ended up spending almost three hours that afternoon plucking herbal leaves and setting them into drying trays; knowing as I did so that some would incorrectly view the same as me “paying my way” to stay there, and yet choosing to pluck them joyfully for free anyway … 🙂 “GURU is a word that […]
It was fascinating to sit back and see how I had indeed landed in a Camino-based, “self-help”, Zone 2 yoga paradise – not at all “the vibe” in any way in harmony with my Cosmos-based, service oriented, Zone 3 Peace Pilgrim gig, and yet a glorious gaggle of well-intended and highly beautiful Souls nonetheless. There […]
While it would have been quite fine indeed to have been allowed to mingle with the over half dozen hospitaleros & hospitaleras who were on hand (for some reason the dinner table was segregated, with the “helpers” sitting together at one end of the dinner table and the pilgrims nestled together on the other), dinner […]
Despite the stark & fundamental differences between my selfless moral outlook and the mostly self-focused ethical stance of the hostel & almost all of its residents, there was one Deep Connection that was made in Orbigo that day. Sonja (from Germany, no less) took an instant & highly fascinated liking to The Walk as soon […]
And once more the Sun set on yet another serendipitous Sanctuary – once more I found myself surrounded by many who didn’t truly See Me and yet many who were deeply loved all the same – and once more I moved silently in the night to a spare space of solitude, to spare the same […]
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