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December 2023

December 15, 2023

A Hell of a Town

Forty five minutes early (unheard of) I arrived at Laguardia Airport and in short order...

November 2023

November 27, 2023

Branded!

Who else remembers a 1960s Western called "Branded!" about a soldier falsely accused of cowardice...

November 15, 2023

After the Laundry, the Ecstasy

Jack Kornfield is famous for his book "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry" I haven't read...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

I’ve Got Rhythm

When it comes to dancing, grace is not my gift, but I have rhythm. Robert...

October 16, 2023

Do or Do Not

We all know the quote, right? "Do or do not. There is no try." Pretty...

September 2023

September 17, 2023

One Step At A Time

Like the joke about how one eats an elephant (or a whale!) how one does...

September 12, 2023

Speaking of Sacred Sites, Part 2

This is Speaking of Sacred Sites, Part 2, focusing on another place not mentioned by...

August 2023

August 28, 2023

Speaking of Sacred Sites

Been There, Done That Speaking of Sacred sites, and to make good on my claims...

August 14, 2023

Were It Up to Me

This being a blog about pilgrimage as a way of life, it makes sense to...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

Embracing Presence

My title is an actual book title, "Embracing Presence," published by a friend I have...

July 23, 2023

That Old Car Smell

After 18 years it was time for a new car. The battery died last week;...

July 12, 2023

A Mattering Map

Heard of Mattering Maps? Some years ago I happened on a philosopher who talked about...

July 02, 2023

I Wish I Were Homeward Bound

You gotta be a certain age to catch the references here. "I Wish I Was...

June 2023

June 16, 2023

Hold That Thought!

Each day, while walking, ideas come to me and I think to myself, "Hold that...

May 2023

May 31, 2023

Walking in The Valley of Death

It was lovely, Walking in the Valley of Death. That sure sounds strange, but it...

May 21, 2023

Lost in the Stars

Fate handed me a gift With time to spare I am standing by a bookstore...

May 08, 2023

Under Construction

Those with brains like mine ought to have a sign on our foreheads that says,...

April 2023

April 24, 2023

A Never Ending Story

Other bloggers make points; I tell stories, because pilgrim life is a never ending story. ...

April 16, 2023

Where Am I?

Where Am I? I got little sleep those first two nights, and upon waking I...

April 02, 2023

Agnostic Pilgrim Ruins Palm Sunday

Though I am many posts away from my day spent on the Mount of Olives,...

March 2023

March 20, 2023

Groggy Pilgrim In Tel Aviv

I wake up from my drugged and jetlagged sleep and actually do think, "Where Was...

March 07, 2023

Long Time No Write

There we were in box car, Dad and brother and me, on a rail excursion,...

February 2023

February 23, 2023

Encountering Jerusalem

I Just Flew in from Israel, And... Well, you know the rest. And you may...

February 19, 2023

The Pilgrim “Goes Up” To the Holy Land

I have "gone up" to the Holy Land. In Judaism, the term Aliyah means...

January 2023

January 20, 2023

What A Waste!

Is pilgrim life worth it? Is pilgrim life worth it? Or is it a waste...

January 14, 2023

“It’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

It actually is a beautiful day in the neighorhood. We have sunlight here in West...

January 04, 2023

You Can’t be Serious

Listening to me is more a saunter than a hike. I meant to tell you...

December 2022

December 31, 2022

Happy New? Year

Four hours left in 2022! Though strictly speaking it is already 2023 everywhere east of...

December 23, 2022

Snow Country

The blizzard has started. It’s not a blizzard quite yet; that comes later. Right now,...

December 16, 2022

“They Call Me The Wanderer”

No doubt it was at summer camp when I was around age nine that I...