So. You want to walk the Camino de Santiago. Enough people have approached me in my personal life about walking this ancient trail through Spain that I eventually made a form email response. “Hello, I’d like to walk the Camino, can you point me in a direction?” Why, yes, I can *forwards email.* But thenContinueContinue reading “Camino de Santiago — ye olde tips”
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On discerning
If you and I were both traveling vagabonds, but purposeful, more like pilgrims, but I was maybe older and more accustomed to traveling, and we met each other one night after dinner, over a fire in the back half-room of a hostel that overlooked a spindly but sincere garden, with dying embers and dying voicesContinueContinue reading “On discerning”
New Year’s Report
Remember when it was a few months ago and I learned that the retreat I go on EVERY New Years for the past LITERALLY SEVEN OR EIGHT New Years was cancelled this year? I probably told you this. What I didn’t tell you is that it threw me into a leetle bit of a tailspinContinueContinue reading “New Year’s Report”
Poland, mine very own Poland
Poland 4ever. Poland, Poland, Poland, Poland. I wish that my heart was as good and clean and wholesome and beautiful and lovable and pure as the beautiful country of Poland. As my plane was landing, I laughed to myself. Last month, when I gave a talk on joy (wherein I basically just actually talked aboutContinueContinue reading “Poland, mine very own Poland”
Life/ Camino Word Vomit. Blah blah blah. Love, Me.
I don’t think it’s a huge surprise to say to you guys, “Hey, I have a massive internet crush on John Blase’s poetry.” (Side note: I also check One Page Love Story every day. But now it’s finished. See? I have a leetle bit of heart. But it’s kind of like the size of theContinueContinue reading “Life/ Camino Word Vomit. Blah blah blah. Love, Me.”
I’m home
Reflections: There’s stuff in my house. My mind is having a hard time with this. I have a drawer full of shirts. SHIRTS. I can wear any of them, because they’re all clean. Gluten-free pizza. Bet your boots I ate one half of that puppy. No regrets. I didn’t leave my shower very clean whenContinueContinue reading “I’m home”
So I ran across my Guardian Angel today
Another update from the Camino de Santiago…I felt like it must happen. Today we were slated to walk only a short distance–18 km. I woke up early, just after 5 a.m., and I packed my bags in the hall of our hostel joined by my sister and Bob. Around 5:30 Christine and I hit theContinueContinue reading “So I ran across my Guardian Angel today”
Ready or not…
…here we come! The pig is at the sitter’s. I decorated the intern’s desk with Justin Bieber pictures. I’ve packed my bag. I also, at some point last night, said, “Enough. I’ve cut enough. It’s coming now.” Enough lines had been drawn. The inhaler is coming. The shirt is coming. The third pair of socksContinueContinue reading “Ready or not…”
I just want to sit and stare at a wall
I feel like I just want to sit and stare at a wall, you guys. I drove into work this morning, reviewing my week in my head and said to myself, “Self. No more things until after the Camino.” The Camino is essentially the month of July by the time you figure that the post-CaminoContinueContinue reading “I just want to sit and stare at a wall”
Seashell Nell 