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With joy we donated €150,- for the Dutch conservation trust to maintain the Palland Valley. The valley is kept to demonstrate the original Dutch landschape with braided and wooded hedges. The trust campaigns for funds to restore this landscape. Our pilgrimage passes through the valley and we are glad to help our.
We donate €1,- for each pilgrim to the landschape on our pilgrimage.
Our English routeguide is printed! Read the poem former Nijmegen city poet laureate Frouke Arns wrote for our pilgrimage in translation by John Irons.
Short practical guide for the modern pilgrim
Take a selfie before setting out, then leave
your mobile to its own devices. Now only you
have access to yourself. You must charge your own battery.
Your footsteps fall in with those who’ve gone before and yet
this journey feels as if new. Travel light-footed. A map your guide
on which the outline of a pigeon in full flight points out the way.
Be easy to spot from your lack of luggage, most of which is
in your head and heart, that ancient garden of images. Add birds
that sit on wires like a music score. Decipher the song
especially composed for you. Thread the rings on your shoestring.
Reach after days across the open fields your destination.
The horizon slowly releases you from waving countryside.
Take another selfie when you return. Look for differences.
You have come this far.
Many thanks to our volunteers Stuart Harris and Daniëlle Slootjes who translated our routeguide. After months of work we were able to send the english edtion to the printer. We expect the guides mid June and hope to finish our website english ediiton by then to welcome from abroad!
This morning, as the 2654th and 2655th pilgrim, Sam Sokolsky-Tifft from Massachusetts and Spencer Wilson from Georgia left tot a Walk of Wisdom. The two Americans were very interested in the journey – “good for our soul” – and will test a translation of the route guide by two of our volunteers. Thanks to Stuart Harris and Daniëlle Slootjes!