Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life considers lessons I have learned throughout my life and reinforced during several pilgrimage walks in Spain. It relates these lessons to our daily walk through life. Walking Life is richly illustrated with photos from several pilgrimage walks. You can take Walking Life along with you on your next retreat or just sit with it under a tree. Walking Life is at its best when you read it slowly one page at a time and consider how the spirit of that page fits into your life. This book is also available in a color edition at www.lulu.com.

This is the second edition of the story of our epic walk across America and Europe to Jerusalem. In January 2009, we began walking east from our home on the central California coast on my 66th birthday. On Christmas Day 2010, we walked past the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem. Our pilgrimage was over. This book tells the story of our encounters with people, places, animals, sun, wind, rain, snow, roads, and paths and their effects on our bodies, minds, and souls as we walked across North America and southern Europe. It also tells the story of our encounters with our own joys, doubts, fears,...