Thursday, 3 September With sore feet, we set out before breakfast Thursday morning, eager to catch our first glimpse of the cathedral and buoyed by “Chartres!”
Category: Travel & Pilgrimage
Mid-Walk
Wednesday, 2 September 2009 What a joy to wake to clearing skies and perfect walking temperatures! We walked out of Cernay la Ville and headed “Mid-Walk”
First Day of Walking
Tuesday, 1 September 2009… We set out along the Rue St Jacques in the wee hours of the morning, well before Paris woke to the “First Day of Walking”
The Beginning of the Road
Monday, 31 August 2009 We decided early on that this pilgrimage would not be a journey of deprivation, but rather one of celebration and joy. “The Beginning of the Road”
Arrival!
We made it! Lisa and I walked into Chartres Cathedral early last Thursday afternoon. Still wearing our packs, we walked directly to Mary, Vierge du “Arrival!”
The Journey
In pilgrimage, one’s inner journey reflects the outer journey. There are as many ways to make a pilgrimage as there are pilgrims, but a thread “The Journey”
The Call to Adventure
I tend to see life as a Hero’s Journey. For many years I taught a class on Myths, Dreams and Symbols at Sonoma State University, “The Call to Adventure”
The Call of the Pilgrim Path
I haven’t written anything for a long time… it’s not that I haven’t had anything to say, but rather that I’ve had too much to “The Call of the Pilgrim Path”
Irish Rambling, part 2
The rain continued to follow us as we drove further south to Cashel in County Tipperary where we headed immediately for the famous, dominating feature “Irish Rambling, part 2”
Irish Rambling
We can tell you why Ireland is so green…. it rains. But somehow the dull skies and bitter winds contributed to the mystery and magic “Irish Rambling”