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Advent 2024: Bearing Hope

Things for the journey

Pilgrim & Pup

Advent 2024: Bearing Hope

Things for the journey

Advent 2024: Bearing Hope

Things for the journey

1st December

Esther Dix 01/12/2024 Esther Dix 01/12/2024

1st December

About ways to hold and carry and make hope. About a season that is meant to bring hope to us. About how hope is hard to bear.

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A backdrop of the lake district in England, a small lake and a row of hills, green and brown and full of life. A woman with short brown hair, a blue rucksack, and orange and green trousers, is walking away, towards the lake, a little dog beside her.

“Remember, remember
This is now, and now, and now.
Live it, feel it, cling to it…”

(Sylvia Plath)

#climbing #sunset #pilgrimage

@mtthwfrnkln @climbingclan

Today we had a queer adventure…

Robin has her usual million new friends and I’m left reflecting on the extraordinary beauty and interconnected story of queer bodies and the endlessly unique landscape.

And a very different christian to

Eight months ago I wanted to be here. Clinging to some greasy gritstone. Safely seconding. Soft grass underfoot and clinking metal and rope heavy in my shoulders. My own bag of gear and a bunch of kind climbers around me. The air on my face at the to

She sleeps on my feet with a different kind of peace
Her small body and gentle breaths with
Nothing in between her heart and stillness
Peace that seeps into my leg where her body stretches soft and tucks into mine
Is this what it means when the sp

A pilgrimage to @greenbeltfestival

There’s something left echoing within me about intimacy. The intimacy of holding wool with strangers, holding the deepest struggles of church in stretched fibre. The intimacy of clear notes and blended voice

Tent up ✅ unpacked ✅ sloe gin ✅

#greenbelt #pilgrimage #pilgrimandpup

A new blog post today...

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#holdingon #climbing #learning #womenwhoclimb #queerclimber #tradclimbing #strongwomen #queerchristian #lgbtqchristian #queerfaith #wilderness #pilgrimage #pilgrimandpup

#queerfaith #llf #conversiontherapy #religiousabuse #lgbtqchristian #pilgrimage #pilgrimandpup

A small sermon.

#sunday #lgbtqchristian #pilgrimage #pilgrimandpup

This tree

#trees #roots #pilgrimage #pilgrimandpup

Find us on Instagram @pilgrimandpup for more small stories of where we’ve been so far…