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Published on November 16, 2015December 3, 2015 by geriatric pilgrim2 Comments

Categories Faith, Grief•Tags Faith, Grief, Travel

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The Geriatric Pilgrim is now a Book!

Every year, two hundred million people make a pilgrimage to religious and spiritual sites around the world. The Geriatric Pilgrim: Tales from the Journey explores how Rick Wile’s pilgrimage experiences have taught him that life itself can be a pilgrimage: both an exterior and interior journey, one involving curiosity, vulnerability, discomfort, an embracing of the unknown, and a recognition that there is, as 12-steppers say, a higher power and that we’re not it. Whether he’s writing about struggling with the sun and souvenir sellers in the Old City of Jerusalem, watching a lion in the Serengeti in Africa, hiking to the Holiday Island of Lindisfarne in England, searching for family roots in Nova Scotia, or navigating memories of growing up in a small Maine town the 1950’s, Rick is also reflecting on his interior journeys to find healing from growing up in an alcoholic family, the death of his eighteen-year-old daughter, and growing old during a worldwide pandemic.

Part travelogue, part rumination on grief and grace, part coming of (old) age memoir, The Geriatric Pilgrim: Tales from the Journey reveals how viewing life as a pilgrimage can bring all of us healing and hope.

"…engaging…effective, reflective…"— Kirkus Review

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