Upon This Stoney Holy Year
About this ebook
While Sons of Thunder and Autumn on the Trail to Santiago celebrate a much longer journey spanning seasons and 2000 miles of trails, they also reflect the experience gained from having made the Pilgrimage before. Having no prior knowledge, Upon This Stoney Holy Year is a simpler piece of work. There are no Formal E-mails, no Definitions, no Autobiography or Research here. And because of all that it is not, this book completes those first two in the pilgrimage series in a gentle way.
About the author
‘Infected’ early on with a want to acquire foreign languages from hearing the musical French Canadian dialect spoken in the homes and streets of Lewiston, Maine, where he was born... ‘Infected’ with a desire to travel ever since his parents bought their VW Westfalia Campmobile back in the late 70’s and spent summers traveling throughout New England, to the Canadian Rockies, the Grand Canyon, Nova Scotia, Florida, and by being deeply stirred by the epic journeys undertaken across Tolkien’s Middle Earth... ‘Infected’ with a love for poetry by Professor Richard Hughes, under whose influence the author left his senior year at Boston College behind and went to study abroad in Nijmegen, Holland... ‘Infected’ with a worldly appreciation for food by Josefina Yanguas Perez - the proprietor of the Café Pamplona in Harvard Square who used to share the extras from her famous Saturday night dinner parties with Timberlake’s then yet inexperienced tongue, while he was a waiter there... ‘Infected’ with the seeds of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh after realizing he was tool-less to deal with life’s sucker punches... These happy ‘infections’ have shaped James’ perceptions and expression, and he continues to seek to bring these pleasures along with him on his next journey.
