“All guidebooks, no matter what style or language they are written in, share one fundamental limitation. Everyone, without exception, is a 2-dimensional effort at describing something which is 3-dime…
“Friends who had walked the Camino two years before warned me about this day. This was the day headed into Burgos, where for an unbelievably and excruciating long way, the Camino literally skirts the…
“Sensation-delicious (shout out to Nia) cues us to connect with the sensations in our bodies. Awareness like this, when all of our faculties are focused together, has a powerful effect in us as it es…
"Life’s content is told in story. But not all stories are the same. Some stories really happened. Some stories did not really happen that way. Some stories tell part of what happened. And some stori…
“If there really is no one for whom I am responsible, nor that I can rely on during this time. If no one is keeping track of me or very possibly even noticing me… how will I live? How will I travel o…
"Where are we going? I shout. To the top! he responds.
We are going back to where I just came from. It’s a steep ascent back up to the highest point of the Camino, where I had paused about an hour…
“The word, “incarnation” followed me around for the year preceding my pilgrimage. It followed me because it was trying to convince me that I am one. I am one and guess what if you have a body, so are…
This story adds a splash of holy imagination to an actual experience!
“I found myself in a state of “standing on my tippy-toes”. You know that feeling when there’s something going on that you really …
“I look at the dirt and the rocks and the trees and flowers now. I can only imagine that day when all things are made new. What colors, what scents, what flavors will be unfurled?! What secrets do we…
Buckle your seat belts, here's where holy imagination starts making appearances!!!
“As we walked in sweet silence, maybe it was just me but the landscape seemed to become more vibrant when he walked …
“It strikes me how utterly simple and undramatic the beginning is. There was no starting gun. I didn’t tell anyone I was leaving, or ask permission, or explain myself. I didn’t do anything but step o…
“So now, that pilgrimage which was already underway inside me enters a stage I affectionately call ….“boots on the ground". So it was, and perfectly so, that on that beautiful evening I stood by that…
Imagination might seem like a dangerous thing to do, but perhaps, it's more dangerous not to.
As I walked, I began to ask for holy imagination. I had no idea how meaningful it would be.
“I had to walk …
This episode gives important and playful context for the rest of the stories, which are essentially my response to walking the Camino de Santiago.
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