It's four weeks now until I leave for Portugal to walk the Coastal Camino path to Santiago. I'm amazed at how the time has passed since I first made the plan to go on pilgrimage on that ancient path. Since I started my training at the Hunter St Park, we've gone through fall, winter, spring, … Continue reading Camino Prep: Setbacks
Goal Achievement
Internal Pilgrimage: Questioning Long-Held Assumptions
Last week I shared with you a section of the book, The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey Within. It's a resource I'm using to prepare for my upcoming Camino journey, but on a broader level, one for looking at the internal journey that we're all walking. In the book, Christine Valters … Continue reading Internal Pilgrimage: Questioning Long-Held Assumptions
Easter Energy
Today is Easter Sunday, that for Christians commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after he was crucified by Romans around 30 A.D. Beyond church services that focus on that event, Easter has a broader popularization as a time of new birth, as we in the Northern Hemisphere are in the season of Spring. … Continue reading Easter Energy
Happy 400th Post!
This is the 400th post on this blog that started in May of 2017. When I began, I wasn't thinking too far into the future; it was just a response to the advice given at a writers' conference. The general consensus was writers needed a platform and having samples of your work on a blog … Continue reading Happy 400th Post!
Camino Tribe
In my post of Jan 28, 2024: The Year of Finding Your Tribe, I described my goal of joining two tribes this year that would provide a broad network of people who shared my passions. The first was the Blues Tribe that I'd found through the Blue Note Grill in Durham. There, I'd made a home … Continue reading Camino Tribe
Focusing on the Goal: Camino Bound
Last Friday, I stepped forward and made my deposit for the eighteen day, Portuguese Coastal Camino trip. I'll go with a group of ten with the company Prayerful Path https://prayerfulpath.com---headed up by Mary Maddox from the Atlanta area. It will be in August instead of June, as I originally posted. Looking at the calendar, I was … Continue reading Focusing on the Goal: Camino Bound
Underpromising: Accepting Each Day as It Comes
Last Monday I set down my goals, my intentions for the week. One of those was to continue my preparation for my Camino journey this summer. I wanted to increase my time of hiking from two to three hours. It seemed reasonable at the beginning of the week to do that twice---given the other things … Continue reading Underpromising: Accepting Each Day as It Comes
New Year’s Eve: Looking Back, Looking Forward
It's New Year's Eve, a time for looking back. When I see 2023 in Review, I ask myself these questions: What did I learn-- about myself, about others? What were my greatest challenges? What did I accomplish, and what didn't I accomplish that I'd set out to do? What were the greatest events in my … Continue reading New Year’s Eve: Looking Back, Looking Forward
New Land of Discovery: The Gift of Nature
To walk, to wander about, is to open yourself up to discovery; often the new things you find are within--new ideas, new solutions to problems; sometimes there are discoveries of physical things, of places that delight, even in your own neighborhood. That was the gift I received last Tuesday. I woke up feeling blah, my … Continue reading New Land of Discovery: The Gift of Nature
Hike Over Bluff Mountain: Friendship Continued
I hadn't seen Paula in six years. How did we go that long after years of spending so much time together? She and her husband, David had been my friends since I met them at Evergreen Church when my sons were in high school. They helped with the youth group and David was also one … Continue reading Hike Over Bluff Mountain: Friendship Continued
Connie Rosser Riddle 