Pilgrimage Creations Pilgrimage Creations (formerly Walking With Awareness) is our presentation of our books, workshops, slideshows, and other pilgrimage writings. It is the outgrowth, the successor of our earlier site, Walking with Awareness, which was about being aware of everything around you at all times. It was about physical walking, yes, but it is also about all aspects of our life. It is about our walk through life. Pilgrimage Creations is about this and more. Note: Until we completely remake this site, there will be references to Walking with Awareness that should read Pilgrimage Creations. When you see them realize we are in the process of reconstruction and please accept our apologies for any inconveniences you may have to endure. When we walk with awareness, all the following become more possible: We walk more in the present moment, in the now. We walk with more purpose and life. Life takes on a more sacred character. We walk with more heart and spirit. We more easily hear and follow the calls of the Spirit and from deep within our heart. We seek to find out our deepest truths to define our sacred path. We learn more from life's daily lessons. We more readily walk with joy and acceptance of all the variety that comes along our path. This site is about listening to and being aware of lessons spoken from every corner and every opening of our lives and incorporating those lessons into the walk, the pilgrimage, of our life. Often we hear lessons from earlier times that are reinforced over and over by the experience of our daily lives. But when we listen more closely, we can discover lessons that bring altogether new facets into our life experience. Each of our lives are unique. When we choose to listen to everything around us and find, define, and follow our own path we are much better off than when we fail to listen and instead follow the paths others have laid out for us. We can benefit by listening to others but in the end we need to listen closely and search for our own path and walk it with the devotion of a zealot (knowing we will fail at times). We offer you the following. You can choose these options here and from the menu on the right side of each page. Slide Shows Hear the call and follow your heart - a reflection on our pilgrimages along the Camino de Santiago. A Pilgrimage to St. Peter's Keys: Walking from Germany to Rome. - a reflection on our pilgrimage walk over the Alps to Rome. History of slide shows and workshops. Workshops Spiritual and practical preparation for walking the Camino de Santiago (or other European pilgrimage route). Comments from participants in our workshops left afterwards in Germany (in German). History of Slide Shows and workshops. Books Encounters on the Road to Jerusalem, a book chronicling our 23-month, 2009-2010 pilgrimage walk to Jerusalem from our front door in California. Preview and purchase it here. Germany to Rome in 64 Days: Our Pilgrimage, a book chronicaling our 2006-07 pilgrimage walk to Rome from our front door in Germany. Preview and purchase it here. Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life, a book inspired by Mike's pilgrimage walks. Preview and purchase it here. Resources, an annotated list of links to pilgrimage and walking sites where you can obtain a wide variety of information and goods to help you with your walks and walking pilgrimages. Reviews of books and other items we have used, items that you might also find useful. New! About us. We're in the press is a list of several articles that have been written in the press about over the past few years. Our pilgrimages. Camino de Santiago. Rome Pilgrimage California to Jerusalem Pictures Pictures from our pilgrimage to Jerusalem Pictures of our new Santa Fe, NM home home. Contact us. What's new? I do a mediocre job at keeping it up to date. So take it with a grain of salt. WorksAndWords.com - Mike's other web site, Works and Words. Go there when you want to explore his writings, photography, and coin club links. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions Click here to call or email us. Return to top.