The walk down into Lausanne was as smooth and fluid as the walking beforehand had been stilted and arduous … 🙂 “I am a flesh & bone facet of the Greater Divine — journeying through every moment of my life towards a full & wholehearted remembering of the same.” ~ anonymous
The Cathedral in Lausanne was truly one of the more beautiful I experienced on the entire Walk … 🙂 “Death is a natural part of life, and can become rather Meaning-full if approached appropriately — remembering that we are here to give our lives joyfully for others, and knowing that those who pass before us […]
I had arrived into Lausanne — my destination for the day — much earlier than anticipated, and had some “time to kill” (Isn’t “Time to Live” is a far more apt saying?) so I left the church and walked around the surrounding city streets, looking for a place to sit and rest and write and […]
This was actually an unusually special day, for the simple reason that it was the only day during the entirety of my walk across Europe that I knew before setting out that I had a bed to sleep on that same night. You see, back in Lucens a few days previous — when I was […]
I wake up at 7am after a nice night’s sleep and slam a hasty breakfast and offer a cursory goodbye to Clara as she is late for work. David then accompanies me on the first few hundred yards of the day’s walk (to spend a bit more time together, and make sure that I set […]
I make it to the shores of Lake Geneva without incident and found the Camino running fluidly alongside of it just as foretold. It was a calm, sunny day that morning and I sauntered with ease along a well-paved bike path — smiling at the folks I passed along the way, and soaking up the […]
I steadily strolled along the lakeside, in more than a bit of physical discomfort and yet still filled with peace and joy — alongside a wholehearted resolve to continue walking this pilgrimage until I reached its stated conclusion, and this no matter the dangers or dis-eases that would in all probability continue to afflict me […]
I’m not at all what folks would call a “religious person.” Indeed, I am actually avidly opposed to all forms of organized religion; believing them to be obstacles to intra-spiritual awareness and hindrances to inter-communal harmony (with discussions about the reasoning underlying these opinions being better left for another day) … That having been said, […]
How blessed I was by Nature’s innate & ever-present magnificence along the entirety of my Walk, never more so than in this particular moment — when dancing gusts of wind turned an neighboring bamboo grove into a swayingly syncopated testimony to the Truth that enormous and awe-inspiring scenes of Beauty surround each & every one […]
I walk onward, into and through the town of Preverenges, and then come across what proved to be one of the most Peace-full places I encountered on the entire Journey — a bench along the lakeside path; a path now covered with a thick layer of soft mulch, and a bench sheltered by a thick […]
I saunter-limp onward all the way to the city of Morges, where the local protestant church is locked up tight (sadly typical) and its Catholic cousin is wide open and welcoming (just as commonplace). I thankfully enter the latter’s peaceful sanctuary and hunker down on one of the rear pews to rest and write a […]
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