Archives for David Whyte
A 30-day Walking Sabbatical: Talking With a Pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago
It’s one thing to go for an afternoon walk or hike for a couple of weeks. It’s quite a different experience to sleep in a different bed every night, eat alone or with strangers and put one sore foot in front of the other day after day after day. Sometimes you are alone on the trail; […]
What’s the First Step? The Step You Don’t Want to Take.
I’ve been seeing more people standing on street corners with signs in my small town. A couple of weeks back, a middle-aged woman on the median of a busy intersection held a one word sign - “Help.” It’s unusual to see a woman on the street holding a sign; mostly it’s men. Most signs ask for […]
Your Geography of Place. Where is it? Why is it Important?
Where is it that you have a sense of belonging to the land? A place you feel rooted? What vista feeds your soul? Some describe it as a place where they feel “home,” while others describe a place that stirs their mind and soul. One morning this past June, I woke up in a Malmerby Hall in […]
There is Only One Life You Can Call Your Own
Last month I spent a week on a walking tour in the Northern Lakes District of England with poet, David Whyte. In community with 21 others, I experienced the pastures and mountains, villages, locals, cuisine, pubs and sheep (lots of sheep) of the region. The treks were challenging; so is life. No matter your age, title, or size of […]
Living the Width of Your Life: How’ya Doing on That?
No matter that I’m in the midst of a frantic pace of checking off a long to-do list of work items before I start to pack. A precise collection of words can make me pause. This one did. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just […]