Tag: Pilgrimage

There’s a map of the Castro pinned to my wall, next to a calendar of the Black Nazarene, which my mother mounted because she thought I did not pray enough at night. But I do pray enough at night. I always remember to say thanks each time I turn the lights off, the Black Nazarene in the corn...

Oliver Dunskus is a German national who spends most of his year being a marketing manager. However, he has an atypical hobby: spending a few weeks each year walking the most famous pilgrimage of Japan, on Shikoku island. Noticing the lack of practical guidebooks for western pilgrims, he wrote and re...

I read the Dharma Bums as an unsure, directionless 20-year-old. The book is Jack Kerouac’s lightly fictionalized account of his relationship with poet Gary Snyder and their outdoor escapades in the Sierras and throughout the Bay Area. Kerouac’s jubilant and endeari...