International travel and long-haul flights become less and less fun every year, and I don’t think it is just a matter of the novelty wearing “Never Doubt the Travel Angels!”
Notes & Blog
Golden Glints of Green
These long-awaited and happily anticipated Olympics feel disappointingly odd and disjointed to me. In fairness, it seems that Vancouver has done a splendid job of “Golden Glints of Green”
Knitting Olympics!
I love the winter Olympics… I learned long ago that watching sports gives me a great opportunity to knit. While I enjoy the competition, I “Knitting Olympics!”
February’s Challenge
Jeff at work on his day’s fossil finds… When I showed her this photograph, my friend Winter said, It looks old, must be the sepia color, “February’s Challenge”
Simmering in the Background
With the New Year comes the need to tidy away the decorations and clear the piles of accumulated paper off my desk in anticipation of “Simmering in the Background”
Shadow
It is tempting to close out the story of our pilgrimage walk without addressing the dark moments, what Carl Jung would have called Shadow. It “Shadow”
Support
Support comes in many forms…. From the outset, our plans felt blessed by synchronicity and grace. With our iPhones giving us on-road accessibility, friendly text messages and “Support”
Chartres!
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!”
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”