Not much happening on the pilgrim walk today, I am unsure if I will continue to make photos and write about each walking day but for now I am having fun with it.
Yesterday when I was at Harold Washington I borrowed two books which I found by chance, one by Thomas Merton called The Inner Experience said this in the first chapter :
"At such time it would be singularly unfeeling as well as dishonest for me to suggest that peace, joy, and happiness are easily found along that most arid stretch of man's spiritual pilgrimage : the life of contemplation. More often than not, the way of contemplation is not even a way, and if one follows it, what he finds is nothing. Later on in these pages we hope to justify the apparent fruitlessness of the quest."
When I left Urbana last month I asked Rachel to send me a picture of the house I painted when the maple tree turned yellow. Yesterday Rachel sent me the picture :
