Might there be a way of avoiding the mad and maddening crowds that descend upon this very special energy center each day? Is there a way to sample something of the quiet solitude enjoyed, at least part of the time, by the few monks who live there?
Sometimes you’ve got to just scrunch down there with the dogs to understand their world…
Roses, books, and dragons–oh, my!
What a lovely sorta-holiday…
Not yet completely overwhelmed by masses of tourists, this little seaside fisher settlement (of about 2,800 residents) on Catalunya’s brave and rocky Costa Brava can still seem like an authentic small Catalan town…
Spring springs eternal…in the brash yellow splashes of the rapeweed fields sprinkled throughout the warming rural Catalan landscape…
Any warm-blooded geologist who visits this area of the northern coast of Catalunya (Costa Brava) would surely find the experience orgasmic.
The rock is other-godly…
I recently worked my way through David Foster Wallace’s 1,079-page magnum opus, Infinite Jest (no small feat–even with two bookmarks!), as well as his more accessible collection of strange short stories titled Oblivion…
The crisis continues, now with Puigdemont under arrest in Germany…and with the possibility of extradition back to Spain (and a free pass directly to jail).
So, what if you just gave independence to everyone who wanted it?
Montserrat is a very special place for many people, from monks and nuns to Catalan loyalists to foreign tourists and rock climbers (and even mountain goats, the real climbers around here!).
It definitely is permeated with a special sort of energy.
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