Journeying through Time

Dear Friends & Family,

I seem to be worlds and ages from home—certainly from the events at home—as I write from the Paiva Valley of Portugal, about an hour south of Porto. In 2015, UNESCO recognized an expanse of this region as a Global Geopark. I am told that the area demarcates a continental touch point and fusion that took place 400 to 250 million years ago. Giant trilobites and ichnofossils can be seen today in areas first inhabited by humans purportedly 6000 years ago. The enormity of unfolding before and since human arrival has never seemed so breathtaking as today. But from where I sit writing these words, at least at first blush, though I suspect deeper than that, there is a sense of connection to and care for the largesse of being.

We hope to begin our walking pilgrimage on Tuesday, journeying through time on behalf of these uniquely uncertain in-between times.

Several of you have sent emails with an image or prayer you wish for me to carry. While I have limited cellular bandwidth to respond to comments or address emails yet, know that I log in from time to time to see them, and if you comment or email me with an image or prayer to carry, I will do so with care. Please do send your requests.

With love,

Renée

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Save the Date!

"The Pathless Path: Walking the Way of the Pilgrim in a Time between Worlds"
An In-Person Gathering
May 20–26. Pecos Benedictine Monastery. Pecos, New Mexico.
email Doreen Tanenbaum to save your spot: tanenbaumd [AT] gmail.

sunset on the grounds at Pecos Benedictine Monastery || credit Jenna Newell Hiott

Since ancient times, seekers have set out on pilgrimage as a way toward self-realization. The inner journey is a pathless path, lived in and through the body in communion with the earth. Animated by an inborn quest, the pilgrim is called to go forth! toward the depths of being, leaving behind the worldly familiar and following the whispers of the presence within to guide the way.

A profound shift is cocooning in the imaginal cells of the collective human psyche. In this time between worlds, we are called to the wild depths of soul. The way of the pilgrim invites us to belong to these times, our world, and the living earth, and supports us through the great work of the unfolding of humanity as an ecological and evolutionary imperative.

During this six-day silent gathering, we will invoke pilgrimage (in place) on sacred ground in the high desert mountains of New Mexico, wandering the pathless path on earth walks, in meditation/prayer of the heart, daily reflections and practices that enliven presence and affective intimacy with one another and the world, quiet periods of gestational rest, and reflective conversation at day’s end.

DETAILS FORTHCOMING.

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