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Ship your pack, start at sunrise, take lots of pictures, stroll to your destination, and if you have to, take a cab the last bit. Just do it, you will love it!
Each Day a Life
by
Robert Service
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I count each day a little life,
With birth and death complete;
I cloister it from care and strife
And keep it sane and sweet.
With eager eyes I greet the morn,
Exultant as a boy,
Knowing that I am newly born
To wonder and to joy.
And when the...
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” Mark Twain
Thank you John, as with so many others we owe you a debt of gratitude. Your books are always the guide of choice. We wish you a quick return to good health, and our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time.
So sorry to hear of your sister's passing and your health challenge. If the hiking turns out not to be an option going forward, volunteering in an Alberque would still keep you on the Way.
I think David Tallan, has the right of it. You can't externalize the pilgrim's experience.
The heat, cold, rain, mud, hills, blisters, tourgrims, muscle strain, etc. etc. are all distractions to our personal delving.
There isn't enough compassion in the world. And your right it is a "personal thing". My father raised 10 children. When my children came along I went to him for advice. This is what he told me.
" As a parent we have two things to teach our children, and we must have the job done by the time...
Thank you, I have now ordered a set from the Canadian Company of pilgrims. I will investigate if the Toledo Cathedral issues them. If they do I will post the information.
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