Into the Thin
A Pilgrimage Walk Across Northern Spain
It felt like an emotional crucifixion - a dark year in which a father figure passed, a friend and mentor suffered a terminal illness, one child entered psychosis, another child took his life, a 14 year marriage ended.
As a new life began, an ancient pilgrimage called from across an ocean. Would it hold any answers? Were there any answers to be had? Questions are always temporal, but it seems pilgrimage follows the designs of the eternal.
Join in a transcendent journey of the body, heart, mind, and spirit from the French Pyrenees Mountains, crossing northern Spain for 500 miles to the city of Santiago de Compostela, and beyond to the coastal town of Finisterre. Share the experience of walking a thousand year old road, the Camino de Santiago, the Way of Saint James, and its miraculous, mysterious ways.
In parts a travelogue, a love letter to Spain, and a chronicle of change under the influence of grace, this is a story told in the language of the soul. Suffused with resilience, it is a dialogue between humanity and its spirit.
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Around the Forever Bend
Remembrances of Wondering What Lies Beyond Death
We are the only beings on earth who intrinsically wonder about our own end. Some of us seem particularly attuned to this wondering, for it begins early-on. This sort of thinking is often discouraged in a culture that is phobic of death, and perhaps even more so of grief. But is there a way to elicit more elegant, gentle questions, and to let go of the need for answers never intended for those who remain in temporal life? By paying close attention to what we naturally resist, maybe something finer can be imparted, something to displace our innate anxiety, something intended just for us; a way to bring the inevitable grief this life holds, into the love it really is.
In this lyrical essay, poetry and the beauty of dreams mingle with remembrances accrued over a lifetime of bearing witness to death and its earthly implications. Journey from a child’s view of life’s end to a perspective in time much closer to that end, and something as familiar as an old friend comes into focus, greets us, and teaches us its ways.
This book is now available from the publisher, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, or through your local bookshop. E-books are available in all formats.
In this lyrical essay, poetry and the beauty of dreams mingle with remembrances accrued over a lifetime of bearing witness to death and its earthly implications. Journey from a child’s view of life’s end to a perspective in time much closer to that end, and something as familiar as an old friend comes into focus, greets us, and teaches us its ways.
This book is now available from the publisher, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, or through your local bookshop. E-books are available in all formats.
In Search Of Simple
Field Notes from Near and Far on Slow Living
Field Notes from Near and Far on Slow Living
I'm honored to have been invited as a contributor to this wonderful collection on intentional living.
From the Publisher's description:
This anthology explores what it can look like to seek out slow living and embrace a life steeped in intentionality. Whether it’s navigating grief to decluttering a home or habits to processing trauma, the writers in these pages have a wide variety of lived experiences and approach simple living differently–but they all end up in the same place: living the life they are made to live. You’ll move from Romania to Colorado to New Zealand to Minnesota to New England to Canada with these writers, and by doing so, you’ll see that there are folks in search of simple, scattered near and far. We hope this anthology inspires you to find the pace of life that sets you up to best contribute to the healing of the world.
This book is available wherever books are sold online or can be ordered through your favorite bookshop.
From the Publisher's description:
This anthology explores what it can look like to seek out slow living and embrace a life steeped in intentionality. Whether it’s navigating grief to decluttering a home or habits to processing trauma, the writers in these pages have a wide variety of lived experiences and approach simple living differently–but they all end up in the same place: living the life they are made to live. You’ll move from Romania to Colorado to New Zealand to Minnesota to New England to Canada with these writers, and by doing so, you’ll see that there are folks in search of simple, scattered near and far. We hope this anthology inspires you to find the pace of life that sets you up to best contribute to the healing of the world.
This book is available wherever books are sold online or can be ordered through your favorite bookshop.