Marginal Pilgrims is where I trace those echoes, in words that move between poetry, field notes, and myth.
Why this space exists
Because travel is more than tourism. Because the journey through Lisbon’s hills or Montreal’s basilicas, Detroit’s streets or a hidden oak grove, is also a journey inward.
Looking at the world today, we seem to be drowning in escalating conflicts that threaten not only our freedoms and ways of life, but the very continuity of life’s unfolding — its capacity to evolve into forms and make this planet a home.
For many, travel is a luxury. We acknowledge that. But when we do step onto a plane, a train, or a side street, let that luxury act as a catalyst — to expand our hearts, to widen our vision, to deepen our capacity for tolerance and difference.
Here at Marginal Pilgrims, we focus on those liminal spaces we find ourselves in when we push past comfort zones, hop the fences of the familiar, and cross into what is unknown — and therefore alive..
This site is for readers who want to be changed by what they encounter.
What you’ll find here
- Dispatches from the road — Lisbon, Montreal, and beyond.
- Poems and mythic fragments — language as lanterns, reshaping how we see place and self.
- Reflections on pilgrimage — literal journeys, and the invisible ones through grief, wonder, and change.
- Occasional maps and images — travel reimagined as parable, dataset, or prayer.
I publish 2–3 times a month — sometimes more when I’m on the road, sometimes less when I’m deep in the cave of writing. My goal isn’t speed; it’s depth. Words worth carrying.
Join the journey
If you travel not just for destinations, but for meaning — you belong here. Share this space with someone else who lives at the edge of the sacred and the profane.
Together, we’ll build a fellowship of marginal pilgrims: readers and travelers who know that, as Fernando Pessoa wrote:
“What we see isn’t what we see, but what we are.”