Yukon Camino Community
The Camino de Santiago, translated as The Way of Saint James, has been a network of pilgrimage routes in Spain and beyond The real Camino […]
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Janet Patterson: Walking together
Janet Patterson, recipient of the Jenni House Residency is a multimedia artist whose work is focused on the history of the land we travel on.
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Small world, eh?
It’s a small world, at least along one of its dimensions – the line between Canada and Spain. There I was in Spain a few months ago walking the Camino de Santiago, a 1200 year old pilgrimage route, and already I’d met an orthodontist from Ottawa and two retirees from Saskatoon who knew friends of mine.
Endings and beginnings
It was the end of my first camino, the ancient pilgrimage route across Spain, and I never wanted to put those dang boots on again.
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This is the way…
March is the perfect time of year to plan ahead for a “camino.” April and May in Spain offer green fields flecked with red poppies,
The Power of ‘the camino’
It’s a walk, it’s a pilgrimage. It’s called “the camino” and it has the power to make people feel called to do it, the power to make people talk about it, the power to draw people back to do it again.
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Yukon Pilgrims Gather
Whitehorse resident Dianne Homan knows people make the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage for many reasons. So on March 15, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.,
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The Sopranos, the Camino de Santiago, and How the World Hangs Together
Last night I watched episode 1 of the Sopranos, the mafia-family television series that became hugely popular at the turn of the century . It
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Janet Goes Walking – Part 2
This was it. After walking almost 800 kilometres in 31 days, I was about to arrive at what I thought would be my final destination:
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Janet Goes Walking – Part 1
It started with the Wife of Bath. I was about 17 years old when I first read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. I felt a strong kinship
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
t was the wise Dr. Seuss who wrote, “Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!” And what finds there are to
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