“I miss spending my days with Phillip.” Such was how my wife, Sally, described what she now missed most about her time on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. After over 500 miles of [...]
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot Life of Arrivals Our life is full of [...]
Two days ago, dear friends of mine lost their daughter to cancer. The twelve month battle was brutal as it battered them against the extremes of hope and despair. That part of the journey is now [...]
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain I recently had the opportunity to re-meet an acquaintance who I hadn’t seen or spoken with in many years. [...]
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. John Milton, Paradise Lost The Struggle Here again. Dissatisfied and feeling down. Another job, another bad boss. The hopes of [...]
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. Henry David Thoreau A couple of months ago, I found a [...]
Our Camino was a journey of gratitude. Sitting here, warm and comfortable in that life we left eight weeks ago, it becomes easy to see. The awkward attempts to describe our adventure, to [...]
In two weeks, Sally and I will begin a journey that will take us from Indianapolis, Indiana to what was once considered the end of the earth: Finisterre, Spain. Our goal? To walk the 500 mile [...]
Innocence is what we allowto be gifted back to usonce we’ve given ourselves away.There is one world only,the one to which we gave ourselvesutterly, and to which one daywe are blessed to [...]
As I write this, I sit in the silent darkness of a lake cottage, my family still asleep. Through my AirPods, the soundtrack to Dances With Wolves transports me to another time and place: [...]
