tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post4607552560825721958..comments2023-12-30T17:31:11.883+00:00Comments on The Solitary Walker: The Pilgrim's Way (3): The Journey Itself Is HomeThe Solitary Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-23844146317222332622014-04-29T15:35:09.637+01:002014-04-29T15:35:09.637+01:00I think you may love the Spanish Via de la Plata, ...I think you may love the Spanish Via de la Plata, Amanda. I walked most of it during the winter of 2010, in wind, rain and snow! But I'd very much like to complete the journey some wild-flower springtime. The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-8431756858888709782014-04-29T13:20:09.002+01:002014-04-29T13:20:09.002+01:00Any road named silver is one I want to walk.Any road named silver is one I want to walk.Amanda Summerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00942636545948440422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-28344231735165029482014-04-28T20:17:59.788+01:002014-04-28T20:17:59.788+01:00I am very much attuned to your comment, Dritanje, ...I am very much attuned to your comment, Dritanje, about there being 'something much bigger at work'. We think we decide and control, but do we? Only partly. Perhaps only minimally. Although I don't believe in predestination, I do believe in hidden forces, daemons, guardian angels and benign (and malign) influences beyond our rational consciousness. However, I do think we have the overriding option to be masters and mistresses of our own fate, if we 'go with' that fate, and accept the unseen and intuited direction as well as the premeditated one. The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-37120601345710128512014-04-27T21:50:16.770+01:002014-04-27T21:50:16.770+01:00Always so good to read your thoughts on journeys a...Always so good to read your thoughts on journeys and pilgrimage. Like George and Ruth I also picked on Basho's 'the journey itself is home'. And it was reading the Martin Buber quote about journeys having secret destinations that drew me to your blog in the first place, years ago now! Because it gives such a sense of reciprocity, of relationship and dialogue of us with path, it is not just us 'deciding' or 'controlling' the way we go, there is something much bigger at work... dritanjehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16025213970107184429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-71171708254531380812014-04-27T21:30:33.053+01:002014-04-27T21:30:33.053+01:00Not really the person to ask, Andy, as I have to a...Not really the person to ask, Andy, as I have to admit I've only read bits as yet. I liked what I read, though some have reacted against the book's density and conjectural nature. I hugely enjoyed his book on Rimbaud, however, which was very readable. Would also very much like to read 'The Discovery of France'.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-53796423372279900992014-04-26T15:44:19.110+01:002014-04-26T15:44:19.110+01:00As ever Robert, thank you.
What's the Robb bo...As ever Robert, thank you.<br /><br />What's the Robb book like? <br /><br />AndyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-6950095788102682122014-04-25T14:02:20.250+01:002014-04-25T14:02:20.250+01:00Thanks as always, George and Ruth, for reading and...Thanks as always, George and Ruth, for reading and commenting.<br /><br />Hey, Laura, how are you? Nice to see you again. I'm so pleased you've found something inspiring here.<br /><br />Am — thanks so much for this great comment. I enjoyed your links very much. 'A stroll of the man'? Hmm... I'm trying to perfect it :) You must be my longest-surviving blog reader, and I'm grateful. Our reciprocity has been so delightful and rewarding. What a pilgrimage this blogging has been!<br /><br />I absolutely loved that poem by Shunzei, John. I've copied it into my quotations folder.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-53114211497746639202014-04-25T08:20:26.569+01:002014-04-25T08:20:26.569+01:00Thanks for such an enjoyable read. You wake that o...Thanks for such an enjoyable read. You wake that old passion. I first ran away when I was four. Now I can smell roses but there are none. <br /><br />"How many times now<br />have I crossed over hill crests<br />with the image<br />of blossoms leading me on –<br />toward nothing but white clouds?"<br /><br />Fujiwara no Shunzei (1114-1204)<br /><br />In Nepal my hostess translated a poem about perfume blowing over from the next valley. <br />johnthebarmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14255924659739608684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-61493517455032650622014-04-24T19:13:17.706+01:002014-04-24T19:13:17.706+01:00Ah, yes. Pilgrimages! The Tao. The Way.
http...Ah, yes. Pilgrimages! The Tao. The Way. <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwZzWHvEtY8<br /><br />The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun<br />Into the Ram one half his course has run,<br />And many little birds make melody<br />That sleep through all the night with open eye<br />(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)-<br />Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,<br />And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,<br />To distant shrines well known in sundry lands.<br />And specially from every shire's end<br />Of England they to Canterbury wend,<br />The holy blessed martyr there to seek<br />Who helped them when they lay so ill and weak.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuzMB<br />HYjhxo<br /><br />"... the tempest may howl and the loud thunder roar ..."<br />(from "The Lone Pilgrim")<br /><br />This is a Dashboard translation:<br />¿Cuántos caminos debe un paseo del hombre abajo antes de que usted llamarle un hombre?<br />(Roberto D.)<br /><br />When I use Dashboard to translate it back into English, it comes out like this:<br /><br />How many ways down have does a stroll of the man before you to call a man to him?<br /><br />Blogging has been something of a pilgrimage <br />for me. I'm grateful to all those I've met on this path in these times. You were one of the first I met. Thank you for your thoughtful comment about the Camino at my blog!amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212213177713917828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-56232863321899920062014-04-24T18:30:16.938+01:002014-04-24T18:30:16.938+01:00After months away from reading blogs, I checked in...After months away from reading blogs, I checked in today because I am planning to walk part of two different routes of the Camino de Santiago next fall (2015) - so I wondered what "The Solitary Walker" has been up to and I found this post waiting. What a treasure to have your many posts to go back through for inspiration. Thank you.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01886493225675415790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-27527336481043625572014-04-24T16:57:14.721+01:002014-04-24T16:57:14.721+01:00Yes, wonderful thoughts and writing. Like George, ...Yes, wonderful thoughts and writing. Like George, I like the idea of the journey as home. I also like the idea of secret destinations, which maybe only the journey itself knows. I have had significant discoveries about myself and the terrain in "wrong" turnings.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-68062030614908575902014-04-24T11:00:58.380+01:002014-04-24T11:00:58.380+01:00A wonderful, thoughtful post, Robert. I couldn...A wonderful, thoughtful post, Robert. I couldn't agree more with your ideas, as well as the ones you cite, on the meaning of pilgrimage. The notion that "the journey itself is itself Home" is especially appealing to me — such stark contrast from the conventional idea that home is some kind of fixed place that never changes.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.com