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July 22, 2018

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St. Brigid July 20, 2018 I thought, that I would go back and write posts for the days that I missed because I had no wifi, but instead I think I will try to capture the spirit of what was done on those days and how I and we are responding to them... On the second day of the pilgrimage, it rained all day.  We walked for 15 miles in the rain. Stopping for lunch at a church that had a marvelous stained class window with Brigid and ate our lunch from a local convience store.  We ate, 21 of us, stuffed into a small sacristy at the back of the church. It was the first time that I have eaten in the sacristy, although we were stuffed in there it was the beginning of our bonding. Then for the next few hours we walked, with someone in the front and a sweeper in the back holding Brigid's Signs.  We also walk with a candle for Brigid that is lit in a lantern and a shaman's staff.  Everyone walks at a different pace and so some arrive before others.  A driver al...