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December 2023

December 15, 2023
Forty five minutes early (unheard of) I arrived at Laguardia Airport and in short order...

November 2023

November 27, 2023
Who else remembers a 1960s Western called "Branded!" about a soldier falsely accused of cowardice...
November 15, 2023
Jack Kornfield is famous for his book "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry" I haven't read...

October 2023

October 31, 2023
When it comes to dancing, grace is not my gift, but I have rhythm.  Robert...
October 16, 2023
We all know the quote, right?  "Do or do not.  There is no try."  Pretty...

September 2023

September 17, 2023
Like the joke about how one eats an elephant (or a whale!) how one does...
September 12, 2023
This is Speaking of Sacred Sites, Part 2, focusing on another place not mentioned by...

August 2023

August 28, 2023
Been There, Done That Speaking of Sacred sites, and to make good on my claims...
August 14, 2023
This being a blog about pilgrimage as a way of life, it makes sense to...

July 2023

July 31, 2023
My title is an actual book title, "Embracing Presence," published by a friend I have...
July 23, 2023
After 18 years it was time for a new car.  The battery died last week;...
July 12, 2023
Heard of Mattering Maps? Some years ago I happened on a philosopher who talked about...
July 02, 2023
You gotta be a certain age to catch the references here.  "I Wish I Was...

June 2023

June 16, 2023
Each day, while walking, ideas come to me and I think to myself, "Hold that...

May 2023

May 31, 2023
It was lovely, Walking in the Valley of Death. That sure sounds strange, but it...
May 21, 2023
Fate handed me a gift With time to spare I am standing by a bookstore...
May 08, 2023
Those with brains like mine ought to have a sign on our foreheads that says,...

April 2023

April 24, 2023
Other bloggers make points; I tell stories, because pilgrim life is a never ending story. ...
April 16, 2023
Where  Am I? I got little sleep those first two nights, and upon waking I...
April 02, 2023
Though I am many posts away from my day spent on the Mount of Olives,...

March 2023

March 20, 2023
I wake up from my drugged and jetlagged sleep and actually do think, "Where Was...
March 07, 2023
There we were in box car, Dad and brother and me, on a rail excursion,...

February 2023

February 23, 2023
I Just Flew in from Israel, And... Well, you know the rest.  And you may...
February 19, 2023
I have "gone up" to the Holy Land.    In Judaism, the term Aliyah means...

January 2023

January 20, 2023
Is pilgrim life worth it? Is pilgrim life worth it?  Or is it a waste...
January 14, 2023
It actually is a beautiful day in the neighorhood. We have sunlight here in West...
January 04, 2023
Listening to me is more a saunter than a hike. I meant to tell you...

December 2022

December 31, 2022
Four hours left in 2022! Though strictly speaking it is already 2023 everywhere east of...
December 23, 2022
The blizzard has started.  It’s not a blizzard quite yet; that comes later.  Right now,...
December 16, 2022
No doubt it was at summer camp when I was around age nine that I...
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