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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 - 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
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A member of the Abu Dhabi royal family secretly invested $500 million into the Trump family’s crypto company, gaining a major ownership stake.

Months after inking the deal, the U.S. gave the UAE access to 500,000 advanced AI chips per year.

The corruption is breathtaking.
February 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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The latest from the blog

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Candlemas!
once one of the most solemn feasts of the year. It’s gone by several names over the millennia: the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Feast of the Presentation of the L…
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February 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - getting lost on a short day

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Camino Photo of the Day: Do You Know the Way to Cahors? – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 29, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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January 28, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - ankle-twisters!

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Camino Photo of the Day: Rocky Road – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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The latest from the blog

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Faith and Reason
Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one. (J. Michael Straczynski, “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars”) is the Feast of…
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January 28, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - a bit of a climb

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Camino Photo of the Day: the View into the Valley – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 27, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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In evaluating the whining about “doxxing” — by which they mean identifying federal employees who killed someone under color of law - remember this administration cooperates with a large cadre of obedient bootlicker Right media that leaps to the tasks of viciously lying about anyone they kill.
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Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.
January 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - more luminous

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Camino Photo of the Day: Sunrise over the River Lot – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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We are community or we are less. We are engines of kindness and connectivity or we are less. When decency is framed as a radical position we must remain who we are. Our resistance is also in refusing to be less openhearted and filled with compassion.
January 25, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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A Dull, Melancholy Roar
today, Francine and I were married at Saint Patrick Church. The celebrant was our good friend (and my former coworker and chess opponent) Rev. Bryan Dolejsi. Afterwards, we had a reception at the H…
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January 25, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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The video of the latest apparent ICE killing shows them repeatedly shooting someone after they had already been beaten and were being held down by multiple agents.
January 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - luminous

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Camino Photo of the Day: Saint-Crépin de Vers – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 23, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - always try the local

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Camino Photo of the Day: Ratz! – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Agnes, in Agony
Saint Agnes Day! Saint Agnes was a young Roman lady of 12 or 13 years old who suffered martyrdom in the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian in about AD 304. She was one of the youngest of the ea…
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January 21, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - now what?

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Camino Photo of the Day: Conference on the Bridge – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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A Great Cloud of Witnesses
in the United States, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., so I thought I’d tackle the question “are there non-Catholic saints?” Seems like a simple question. First off, what…
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January 19, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - time for a dip to take a dip?

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Camino Photo of the Day: the Bridges of Vers – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 19, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Saint Anthony the Abbot: Father of Monks
is the feast of the man many consider to be the founder of Christian monasticism, Saint Anthony the Great of Egypt, the “Father of Monks”. He was born in the middle of the third century…
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January 17, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - and I didn't even _mention_ the ruins

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Camino Photo of the Day: the Cliffs of Insanity Starter Kit – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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My entire team has just been laid off.
January 15, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Are we?
January 15, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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The latest from the Camino blog - planning my walk from Vézelay

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The Via Lemovicensis at Eighty Days Out – Pilgrims on the Way
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January 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM