Pilgrimage Paths: On Being Foreign

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Marker of The Way on birch tree.

I do not belong to this land. I feel it in my bones as I climb the paved paths of the Camino de Santiago through the Pyrenees, the path ever extending toward Galicia and onward to Santiago and the sea.  The scenery is stunning; the Basque houses neat and uniform in design: bulky white with… Read more »

Pilgrimage: Traveling with Leopold

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Along the trail   Traveling with Aldo Leopold is a kind of pilgrimage, a focused awareness of what is present, and, once this is developed, feeling a participant with it. Hiking along one the most ancient pilgrimage trails on earth, Camino de Santiago (and only portions of it), I brought only one book, my old (and… Read more »