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Tell me, have you found the Yellow Sign? Catholic Hobbit, husband, (grand)father, author, writer, editor, amateur monk, pilgrim, liturgy geek, medievalist, gamer. Immigrant. Not necessarily in that order. I like pie. https://linktr.ee/thomryng

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Camino Photo of the Day: the Chinese Saint – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - who is this saint?

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06.03.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Since thou wert kingβ€”as who is king but thou?⁠—
The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack

05.03.2026 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 329    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
Camino Photo of the Day: Γ‰gliseΒ de l’ImmaculΓ©e-Conception de Labastide-Marnhac – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - the church at the halfway point

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05.03.2026 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: Roadside Ruin – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - a different kind of cozy

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04.03.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: a Home in France – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - coziness

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03.03.2026 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I am still Abba Lot I am often reminded of one of my favourite stories from the Desert Fathers. This year, perhaps, it hits a little differently. In the relative aloneness and solitude I live these days, I am much clo…

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02.03.2026 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: Rock and Loose Stone – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - that moment you realize that there's no possible record of your accomplishment

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02.03.2026 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: Cahors from the Cliff – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - it's Sim City down there

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27.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunday Vespers at Saint Patrick our parish ofΒ Saint Patrick in Tacoma, we are celebrating Solemn Vespers on the evening of each Sunday of Lent at 6:00 PM. Please, join us in the coming weeks if you are local and able. Chanted Ves…

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27.02.2026 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No Doubt a rough week. One of the ways I volunteer at my parish is as an adult catechist. I’m part of our OCIA team; we teach the faith to those adults seeking baptism or full communion with the Catho…

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26.02.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: Walking the Devil’s Bridge – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - across the bridge and then a hundred meters straight up

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26.02.2026 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: the Devil’s Bridge – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - the Devil went down to Cahors

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25.02.2026 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

24.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 537    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 15
Camino Photo of the Day: Rue PrΓ©sident Wilson – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - built on its history

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24.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: Medieval Cahors and Dinner – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - like a time machine

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23.02.2026 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Saint Polycarp: a Link on a Golden Chain the memorial of the blessed martyr Saint Polycarp. Burned alive and then beheaded in the city of Rome for the crime of being a Christian bishop, he was a disciple of Saint John the Apostle. In fact…

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23.02.2026 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: Cahors Saint Joan – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - the ubiquitous Saint Joan of Arc

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19.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: Cahors Lady Chapel – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - well past its greatness

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18.02.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ash Wednesday you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” And with those words, our Lent has begun. Holy Mother Church calls us to make these next forty days until Easter a time of prayer, fasting, and al…

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18.02.2026 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lent! tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. Where has the time gone? It seems like Christmas just ended. In previous years, my home Archdiocese of Seattle published β€œLenten Regulations&#…

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17.02.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: Cahors Altar of the Sacred Heart – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - touring the cathedral chapels

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17.02.2026 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Scrubba: Initial Review – Pilgrims on the Way

The latest from the Camino blog - my initial review of the Scrubba.

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17.02.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: the Two Domes of Cahors – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - Gothic, Byzantine, and electronic projection

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16.02.2026 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Saints Valentine, Cyril, and Methodius Saint Valentine was removed from the Roman calendar during the calendar reform of 1970. It seems a shame, since this is one of a vanishingly small number of saint’s feasts that have remained …

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14.02.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

14.02.2026 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 9441    πŸ” 3385    πŸ’¬ 283    πŸ“Œ 107
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Fridays the Thirteenth before we bought Pistachio House, Francine and I shared an apartment with the various children and cats. The address was 13o2 Division Avenue, and we were in apartment 13. Francine was convinced th…

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13.02.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Camino Photo of the Day: Of Penguins and Orangina – Pilgrims on the Way

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - featuring the return of Dobbles

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13.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For all the minimizers out there:

12.02.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

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Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc. Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

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