When People and Land Lose Each Other

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Terraced fields in the Pyrenees.

  “Wild is what happened when white man arrived,” I once heard Native American scholar Greg Sarris say. Today as I walk these ancient Spanish paths that interlace several remote, abandoned villages throughout the southern Pyrenees of the Sobarbre area, I broaden the statement: wild is what too often happens when a people who have… Read more »

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 »