CURRENT MISSION

Meet travelers from all over the world, to spread compassion and harmony.

ABOUT ME

Son, brother, and uncle; priest; Southerner!; foodie who loves to cook and entertain; I tend to mosey, as a friend recently pointed out to me...seems like a basic personality trait, that and a real love of laughter.

I walk sections of the Camino de Santiago each year, hike locally regularly, always ready for a new adventure.

PHILOSOPHY

Love the one who created us, love all whom the creator has made.

"There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun." Br. Thomas Merton

Interests

Caminante,
son tus huellas el camino,
y nada más;
caminante,
no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace camino,
y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda
que nunca se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante,
no hay camino,
sino estelas en la mar.

• books
• cooking
• walking
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Live music, prefer books to readers

Teach, Learn, Share

"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
The Mahatma Gandhi

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” --Margaret Mead

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Marianne Williamson, "Return to Love"

"Far beyond religious belief and unbelief, there is an open plain. In the heart of that expansive place, bliss awaits us. The knower of God who reaches that place will bow down in humble adoration, for neither belief nor unbelief exist there, nor any concept of distance between us.” -Rumi

"In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul."
Mary Renault

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Tanzania, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, United States

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