{"id":514,"date":"2006-04-07T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2006-04-07T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T16:18:00","slug":"on-being-a-pilgrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2006\/04\/07\/on-being-a-pilgrim\/","title":{"rendered":"on being a pilgrim&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6320\/1281\/1600\/Walking_Path_05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6320\/1281\/200\/Walking_Path_05.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>I became fascinated with pilgrimage journeys about six years ago when I took a Humanities class about journey narratives.  I began to view my own life as a journey, and this worldview helped me to make sense of my mortality.<\/p>\n<p>I started reading all types of journey narratives, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=pilgrimgirl-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0679724362%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1144426976%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8\">Road from Coorain<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=pilgrimgirl-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060926317%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1144427043%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks\">Mutant Message Down Under<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=pilgrimgirl-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F006251279X%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1144427132%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks\">The Pilgrimage.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>  I re-read classics like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=pilgrimgirl-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0140268863%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1144427206%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks\">The Odyssey<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=pilgrimgirl-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F014044100X%2Fsr%3D1-2%2Fqid%3D1144427265%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_2%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks\">Gilgamesh.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From all of this reading and soul-searching I realized that the pilgrim motif resonated with me.  By seeing life as a journey I could more fully live each day as part of that process.  It made me less afraid to take steps towards my goals.  It made me believe that I could achieve something heroic.<\/p>\n<p>One of the very hardest parts of my life were those days during my cancer treatments that I couldn&#8217;t even take a step by myself (or I couldn&#8217;t even push myself in a wheelchair anywhere either).  More than anything I feared the loss of mobility, of progression, of autonomy, of freedom.  Perhaps that is why I now feel so happy to be walking on my &#8216;own two feet&#8217; and to be making progress in my daily journey.<\/p>\n<p>The little twist of irony in my blogname is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindonfire.com\">John<\/a> has since begun his own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindonfire.com\/index.php?cat=11\">pilgrimage<\/a> (I guess that makes him &#8216;pilgrimboy&#8217; or &#8216;Mr. Pilgrimgirl&#8217;).  What&#8217;s cool about this is that we are fellow travelers now.  We&#8217;ve both taken up the staff of the pilgrim and are charting our course through the terrain of each day together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I became fascinated with pilgrimage journeys about six years ago when I took a Humanities class about journey narratives. I began to view my own life as a journey, and this worldview helped me to make sense of my mortality. 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