As I was looking forward (think: ahead, think: pleasurably anticipate) to my pilgrimage-in-place time, I made a list of the inward spiritual practices I’ve done.

• Ignatian exercises, in the 5-day format, up at Montserrat Jesuit Retreat House
• walking labyrinth meditations
• crafting a 3-day local retreat for myself and two other parent-artists, when all our progeny were young
• Centering Prayer
• a few days in silence, either on my own or at Lebh Shomea
• lectio divina
• what we then called Cursillo ™
• S-T-O-P:
  Stop, Take a breath mindfully; Observe body sensations, thoughts of all sorts, emotions; Proceed
  …though I learned this practice as part of my Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

No wonder my people were unsurprised to spend a day with me, silent.