Religion
Highlights
Life is travel, the case for the patron saint of walkers
The Vandals are at the gates. Augustine is deadly ill, spending his final days in prayer and repentance. Having coined the phrase "Solvitur ambulando", “it is solved by walking”, perhaps his ambulatory restlessness at the end of his life indirectly saved the city, as the Vandals initially retreated.
Walking with the Ghosts of the Durham Coalfield
Half-smiler
Mirra begins the half-smiler walks by introducing the concept of equanimity as described in early Buddhist philosophy, and corresponding ideas about the everyday, somatics, and friendliness. After a brief orientation, participants will set out for a few hours, walking separately in space while together in time, and then meet again for convivial lunch.
Articles elsewhere
34. Dave Margoshes, A Simple Carpenter
I heard good things about Dave Margoshes’s novel A Simple Carpenter when it came out last year, and although I meant to get a copy, for whatever reason I didn’t. Then I traded John Kennedy, one of the principals at Radiant Press, the Regina publisher that put out A Simple Carpenter, a pair of rain … Continue reading 34. Dave Margoshes, A Simple Carpenter →
• Walk 148
KoraCircling the great stupa of Boudhanath, along with monks, nuns, Tibetans, Nepalis, westerners, easterners, northerners, southerners. All the mantras muttered, butter lamps lit, prostrations offered, prayer wheels spun, incense burned, hundreds or thousands of years of people doing walking meditation here, weaving tendrel with their footsteps, making the world a little more compassionate and wise. The sound of monastic horns and drums floats over the rooftops as the sun sets.Locat [...]
Immersed on the path of the gospel
Angela Reinders is based in Aachen, in Germany, and recently used Dérive app as part of a liturgical service. She’s providing a writeup of her experience. Getting hints and tasks to stop and move without even moving, does this make any sense? Sou...
• Samia El Khodary, Iftours (2022-)
Iftar is the meal eaten by Muslims after sunset during Ramadan. Iftours is a project led by a Cairo tour guide, Samia El Khodary, of the tour company Qahrawya. She gathered people for an iftar in 2022 and paired it with a walking tour of local contemporary art. She hopes to showcase works that break […]
