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Thom Ryng
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Tell me, have you found the Yellow Sign?

Catholic Hobbit, husband, (grand)father, author, writer, editor, amateur monk, pilgrim, liturgy geek, medievalist, gamer. Immigrant. Not necessarily in that order. I like pie.

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Thom Ryng @thomryng.bsky.social · Feb 12
Practical Pilgrimage – Now Available!

My new book, Practical Pilgrimage, is now available for purchase. Subtitled "Useful Rules for Walking the Camino de Santiago", it's a deeper exploration …

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Practical Pilgrimage – Now Available!
Practical Pilgrimage, is now available for purchase. Subtitled “Useful Rules for Walking the Camino de Santiago”, it’s a deeper exploration and expansion of a blog post that appea…
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - the ubiquitous Saint Joan of Arc

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Camino Photo of the Day: Cahors Saint Joan – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 19, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - well past its greatness

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Camino Photo of the Day: Cahors Lady Chapel – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 18, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Ash Wednesday
you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” And with those words, our Lent has begun. Holy Mother Church calls us to make these next forty days until Easter a time of prayer, fasting, and al…
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February 18, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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The latest from the blog

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Lent!
tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. Where has the time gone? It seems like Christmas just ended. In previous years, my home Archdiocese of Seattle published “Lenten Regulations&#…
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February 17, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - touring the cathedral chapels

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Camino Photo of the Day: Cahors Altar of the Sacred Heart – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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The latest from the Camino blog - my initial review of the Scrubba.

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Scrubba: Initial Review – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 17, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - Gothic, Byzantine, and electronic projection

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Camino Photo of the Day: the Two Domes of Cahors – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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The latest from the blog.
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Saints Valentine, Cyril, and Methodius
Saint Valentine was removed from the Roman calendar during the calendar reform of 1970. It seems a shame, since this is one of a vanishingly small number of saint’s feasts that have remained …
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February 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
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Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Fridays the Thirteenth
before we bought Pistachio House, Francine and I shared an apartment with the various children and cats. The address was 13o2 Division Avenue, and we were in apartment 13. Francine was convinced th…
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February 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - featuring the return of Dobbles

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Camino Photo of the Day: Of Penguins and Orangina – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 13, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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For all the minimizers out there:
February 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
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February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - this is what I mean by "narrow"

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Camino Photo of the Day: About those Alleys… – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 12, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - city architecture at a human scale

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Camino Photo of the Day: Amazing Medieval Cahors – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 10, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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it's never been easier to dunk on people, all you have to do is answer questions
February 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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The latest from the blog

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Saint Scholastica: Called to Love More
Benedict was the founder of Western monasticism; to this day, most monks and nuns worldwide follow some variation of his “Little Rule for Beginners”. Benedict had a twin sister, Scholas…
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February 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - not the angel you were expecting

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Camino Photo of the Day: L’ange du Lazaret – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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Sophia de Pistachio (2006–2026)
I bought Pistachio House in the Autumn of 2006. We moved in with a tribe of kids and cats. Sometime before that first Christmas, we rescued two kittens who had been born under the porch next door s…
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February 9, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - Gothic sandwiched between two slices of Byzantine

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Camino Photo of the Day: Cathédrale Saint-Etienne de Cahors – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - into the big city

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Camino Photo of the Day: Cahors for Lunch – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - that's not a typo

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Camino Photo of the Day: Through the Tree – Pilgrims on the Way
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February 2, 2026 at 6:49 PM