Summer Reading Chat (onsite)
Sunday, August 25, 2024, 10:30 AM
hosted by Rev. Becky Binns
Where have you been this summer?
Where have you been in life?
What journeys in life have changed you?
We hope you will read Anne Gardner’s book, And So I Walked, this summer and then join in a conversation about her pilgrimage and yours. While reading the book isn't a pre-rec, we think you'll love it!
You can join for either:
Friday August 23rd, 6:30-7:30pm on Zoom,
OR
Sunday August 25th, 10:30-11:30am in Sherrill Hall
“When I was younger I saw the world in black and white. Right and wrong. For me or against me. In those days my confidence was frequently tinged with an exaggerated sense of self-righteousness. I had all the answers back then. I was vigorous but not flexible. Strong but brittle.
What I didn’t fully appreciate back in my salad days were the countless ways in which I would grow stronger with age. I bend now. I play the long game. Like the very iron of the cross at which I knelt, I have been made more formidable by the impurities that mark my life. Getting older is no joke.
And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
In that moment I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, even as the tears fell from my lashes, I would finish the Camino.”
And So I Walked is the story of my 500-mile walk across northern Spain.
Walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela changed my life. Writing about it changed everything else." (excerpt from the book)
Available through the publisher, Amazon, B&N, and select independent book stores.
