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The language of hope from the hidden and hurting in Jordan

Our driver greeted us at the Queen Alia International Airport after a 20+ hour journey from California. We stopped at a shawarma fast food place for dinner and he introduced himself saying, “My name is Salam, it means peace in Aramaic, the language of Jesus.” No one I had ever known introduced himself in quite …

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Ballerinas, machine guns and Corcovado––a dance with doubt in Brazil

On the heels of my dad’s death last July, a fellow pilgrim on El Camino de Santiago invited me to stay with her in the mountains outside of São Paulo. Yes, please. I had no expectations other than I’d spend my days writing in a charming mountain hamlet where I’d talk long into the night …

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A pilgrim in Paris (una peregrina en Paris)

I soared above Santiago. Over The Bay of Biscay I spotted the Camino del Norte. My heart began to understand what it meant to have walked across the entire fiesta-filled, rioja-swilling, bagpipe-playing, country of my literary idols where ancient wars had been won and lost, and a biblical amount of Syrian and African refugees sought …

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A Dios, the meaning of life and the miracle chicken

  NOTE: This post is from last week.  I had a few set backs with WIFI, etc… this week’s post is coming soon…. Written 8/17/15 Walking the camino for fourteen days has taken a toll on our bodies. Some have been camino-ending. Fortunately I’ve only had to deal with a bout of exhaustion and seemingly …

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Ultimate Dream Dinner — Phuket, Thailand

The most important ingredient in my ultimate dining experience? Dreams. The kind people at smartling.com asked if I could have or make dinner anywhere in the world, where would it be and what would I eat? My dream dinner abroad finds me cooking in an open-air kitchen on the shores of the Andaman Sea in Phuket, Thailand. …

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