Peregrination

Peregrinate

Origin

Late 16th century (earlier ( Middle English) as peregrination): from Latin peregrinat- ‘travelled abroad’, from the verb peregrinari, from peregrinus ‘foreign, travelling’.

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Peregrination

Sitting in the window while

wind shivers cross the water

rumpling prayer flags of light and

a loon family travels

from one petition to another

in reverential caravan.

I lift my mug to the pilgrims then sip, 

pausing, noticing, that my tea now hints

of a sadness steeped in grace.

‘Be safe,’ I whisper to the group;

‘Please be kind,’ to the wind, to the water;

And to the horizon light, ‘Love them…love them.’

Kimberly M. King, RSCJ