Historical setting: 564 C.E. The Gaul Side of the Pyrenees So, Nic asks August, recalling the story of Joseph, “It was like your brothers plotted to take you from your father, strip you of your fine coat with long sleeves then leave you in a wilderness pit?” [Genesis 37:20-24] August answers, “Yes, IContinue reading “Post #17.10, Tuesday, February 23, 2021”
Category Archives: Dark Ages
Post #17.9, Thursday, February 18, 2021
Historical setting: 564 C.E. The Gaul Side of the Pyrenees So the decision is made. We make camp between yonder and nowhere for whatever time Brother Joel needs. Severing a foot is an agonizing cure but Brother Joel has accepted it as boldly as could anyone. And it’s clear Nic has a skillContinue reading “Post #17.9, Thursday, February 18, 2021”
Post #17.8, Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Historical setting: 6th Century Bordeaux The city of Bordeaux is barely rising from the ruin of the old Roman civitas of Burdigala. It’s been battered in wars again and again ever since the Romans saw the strategic location and protected it with a wall; but in these times it’s just another example of theContinue reading “Post #17.8, Wednesday, February 17, 2021”
Post #17.7, Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Historical setting: 564 C.E. The Gaul Side of the Pyrenees We are trying to decide if we should take Brother Joel on a day long ride in an ox cart to find a city with a surgeon, or if Nic should just apply his blade and skill and take this man’s agonizing dead footContinue reading “Post #17.7, Tuesday, February 16, 2021”
Post #17.6, Thursday, February 11, 2021
Historical setting: 564 C.E. The Gaul Side of the Pyrenees On this new morning even the most magnificent beams of dawn can’t pale the long darkness we’ve spent. The elder monk lay the whole night in the place August prepared for him in the bed of the cart, driven, as he has been, backContinue reading “Post #17.6, Thursday, February 11, 2021”
Post #17.5, Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Historical setting: 6th Century Gaul The monk we have found in his cave near death whispers to us of “thin places.” What does this mean? Explanations of thin places are only spoken through whispers as poetry. One preaches of the thin places she noticed in a story of Elijah. She said, “Sometime youContinue reading “Post #17.5, Wednesday, February 10, 2021”
Post #17.4, Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Historical setting: 564 C.E. The Gaul Side of the Pyrenees August investigates the deeper of the caves in the steep bank of the river. He takes a lit lamp and the alms the villager gave. Now Nic and I have been waiting here, and August emerges with only an empty earthen water jar. Continue reading “Post #17.4, Tuesday, February 9, 2021”
Post #17.3, Thursday, February 4, 2021
Historical setting: 564 C.E. The Gaul Side of the Pyrenees We’ve walked all day in search of a particular cave said to be dug into the bank near this creek. Nic scouted out the river bank ahead of us and said he did locate some caves a few miles ahead but they seem uninhabited.Continue reading “Post #17.3, Thursday, February 4, 2021”
Post #17.2, Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Historical setting: 564 C.E. Village on the Gaul Side of the Pyrenees Last night we slept in comfort in the loft of the stable. We learn we are now in Gaul. I was telling Nic and Brother August of the priest’s message to the villagers who thought the statue was Lot’s wife turnedContinue reading “Post #17.2, Wednesday, February 3, 2021”
Post #17.1, Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Historical setting: 564 C.E. A Small Village in Southeastern Gaul Stopping at a small village church, the stone woman in the oxcart captures the imaginations of villagers who are now demanding the priest retell the Genesis story they’ve heard before – the one where Lot’s wife turned back while running from the mayhem. MaybeContinue reading “Post #17.1, Tuesday, February 2, 2021”
Lazarus Ink 