Pilgrimage talk and book in Seattle

[Donald Schell]

Dear friends,

After a very interesting and satisfying presentation on pilgrimage Wednesday
night at Stanford, University, My daughter Maria and I are doing three
presentations on pilgrimage tomorrow and Monday in Seattle.

Many of you are a long ways from Seattle - I'm posting this to the lists I
participate in regularly hoping to alert e-friends from Seattle but also
asking any of you all the favor of a re-post if you have friends or
acquaintances in Seattle who would be interested.  Thanks!

We'll be reading from the book, My Father, My Daughter, Pilgrims on the Road
to Santiago, and talking about our personal pilgrim experience of walking
300 miles on the Camino de Santiago together in 1998, talking (as our book
does) around the theme of pilgrim and the experience of pilgrim practice as
this then 52 year old dad and then 22 year old daughter walked together
making our own personal discoveries, and each watched our relationship
change and move to a relationship between two adults - here's what we wrote
for the local publicity

-"Ancient pilgrims walked in almost every spiritual tradition in the
world and the walking was as sacred as the arriving.  Why is walking a
path such a commonplace image of spiritual life?  And, does a pilgrim
become a pilgrim by getting to a sacred site or by the days of the
ordinary practice of walking on the way there?"

Our book is My Father, My Daughter, Pilgrims on the Road to Santiago,
published by Church Publishing (The Episcopal Church's publishing house) in
2001.  We wrote the book for an intended wide readership- anyone who thinks
about pilgrimage, spiritual practice, family relationships, and personal
discovery.  There are a couple of good reader reviews on Amazon.  The
fastest and easiest way to get the book (other than one of our readings in
Seattle) is directly from the publisher -

www.churchpub.org (and from the Church Publishing homepage go to the
bookstore)
or
order directly from us through our new pilgrim information website -
www.CaminoPilgrim.net

(and we welcome feedback on the site, brand new last week and pilgrim input
of information)

Here's our schedule for this weekend in Seattle:

Sunday morning we're doing the adult forum at St. Mark's Cathedral at 10:10
(between the 9 and 11 a.m. liturgies).

The forum will be in Bloedel Auditorium
which is at the bottom of the St. Mark's parking lot, in the
lowest level of the building.

After the 11 a.m. liturgy the Cathedral is holding a reception/booksigning
for us in Leffler Hall (I think I've got that name right, but I know it's
the adjacent building across a small parking lot and directly to the right
of the Cathedral doors).

Monday night we're doing a talk, reading and book signing at East/West
books.  There is an admission charge of $8 for that event (and it brings
discounts on purchase of our book through East/West and discount that night
on anything else you buy from them).  More information on the East/West
event is available through the bookstore -

>Crystal Wendekier
> is the East/West Books Events Coordinator  206-523-3726
>
> and her email is:  ewbookshopaqwest.net
>
> The bookstore has a webpage at www.ewbookshop.com

We hope to see old friends and meet some new ones.  If you send people our
way, ask them to introduce themselves.

Walk in love,
Donald


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