Field Notes

Stories and reflections from the road and from ordinary weeks.

Camino Notes

August 3, 2026

At Some Point, You Just Have to Start Walking

Notes on faith, inconvenience, and the road to Santiago

You can research a pilgrimage for years. You can buy the right boots. But nothing happens until the morning you shoulder the pack and put one foot in front of the other in the cold.

Portugal & Spain · 9 min read

Camino Notes

July 20, 2026

The Weight You Carry

On packing light, and the difference between a burden and a load

Every pilgrim overpacks once. The lesson is never learned in a shop; it is learned on a hill.

Galicia, Spain · 7 min read

One Life

July 6, 2026

Eighty Summers

Arithmetic, eternity, and why a short life is not a small one

If the numbers are roughly right, most of us get about eighty summers. That is not depressing. It is clarifying.

Somewhere over the Atlantic · 6 min read

Active Discipleship

June 18, 2026

Build Something That Outlives You

Faith eventually produces something outside of itself

A library in a small town is not a strategy. It is a sentence spoken in a language a community can hear.

Guatemala · 8 min read