A heatwave hike near Potsdam, a wrong turn twice over, and an old story about a man walking on water – on losing the path, and the practice of finding […]
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Category: The Pilgrim’s Path
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Where Are You, Really?
The air on your skin, the map in your hand: some things on the trail are certain. One ancient question is not. Dear Pilgrims, When we are on our way, […]
Two days, forty kilometres, over a thousand metres up the Brocken and back down: seven pilgrims, one question, and seven quiet sources of strength to carry home. Dear Pilgrims, It […]
Four days on Denmark’s Gendarme Path, and what a couple with blisters and a walker from Hannover taught me about finishing. Dear Pilgrims, I had no great plan. A long […]
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Pilgrimage After Work
How pilgrimage becomes a habit – and why it might just work in a Berlin park. Dear pilgrims, One morning, the idea came to me. It wasn’t planned, and I […]
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What Remains
Moving beyond comfort, through the body, toward clarity. Nobody lies down in the dust by choice. Fifty kilometres through the Spanish semi-desert: no shade, no water, no other soul in […]
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From Darkness to New Life
A pilgrim’s reflection for Easter. Dear Pilgrims, This is no ordinary weekend. Easter Sunday. The day Christians around the world celebrate what seemed impossible: that death is not the final […]
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36 Times. And Now This.
I said no for months. Then something changed. Dear Pilgrims, Last August, one of the pilgrims pulled me aside after a day walk I’d been guiding around Bad Saarow in […]
An invitation to slow down, walk in silence, and notice what has been waiting beneath the noise. Dear Pilgrims, When I first began walking pilgrim paths, it was not from […]
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A New Year’s promise
Not more discipline. Not more self-improvement. But a promise carried by pilgrims for thousands of years. Dear Pilgrims, At the beginning of this year, I have been feeling something I […]