Rise and Walk: Experiencing 500 Miles of the Camino de Santiago

Jane and Jay Griffith

THURS, DECEMBER 5, 2024   |  7:30-9:00 pm MST

Journey with Jane and Jay as they share some of their experiences and insights as they walked the Camino de Santiago.

WHERE:

Home of Jana and Rob Spangler
2013 E Lincoln Cir,
Holladay, UT 84124

Thanks to Jana and Rob for hosting this gathering in their home

THE CONVERSATION:

Enjoy exploring crosses, conversations, and deep connections while walking in a strange land with strangers from across the world. Discocer why such a mythic journey has been changing people’s lives for the better for centuries.

Hear some unbelievable history, sing songs from the Camino, see too many photos, and consider how you too can pilgrimage a Buen Camino each day wherever you are. Doing so brings heaven to earth in our entire being.

ABOUT JANE AND JAY:

Jane is happily married to Jay Griffith, mother to three adventuresome kids and proud Mimi to two brilliant grandchildren. Jane recently retired from University of Utah Department of Pediatrics as the Administrator of the Chair’s Office. She’s a passionate musician, creative knitter, avid reader, dedicated walker, curious adventurer, enthusiastic cloud lover, and wanna-be true crime solver.

Jay is curious about most everything. He is passionate about being in and revering creation, alleviating suffering, and living artfully. Professionally, Jay is the designer/art director/janitor for his company Blue Cairn Media.

In 2013 Jay Griffith co-founded and continues facilitating the monthly discussion group, ThinkAgain-Faith Again. He has been an advisory board member of Faith Matters since its inception.

Husband to one good wife, Jane. Father to 3 amazing and unique grown children. Papa to two delightful grand kiddos. Running companion to one sweet rescue dog. Chicken herder to 3 hens sometimes a laying.

EXPLORE BEFORE WE MEET:

• Read: When There is No Cross To See, Fleur Van Woerkom, Wayfare essay, Issue 4
• Watch: Camino de Santiago – 2024 / The Way, Wade L Harman
• Check out Jay’s Instagram daily posts of pictures and reflections while on the Camino
• Read Jay’s Camino Mormon Transhumanism Association presentation
• Read Jay’s ThinkAgain-FaithAgain before and after Camino “Consider” posts
• Watch/listen to fascinating interviews with the definitive expert and guide on the Camino, the late John Brierly
• Watch: A Thing of Beauty: BYU Spanish Lit Professor John Rosenberg on Life as a Pilgrimage
• Watch: Movie, The Way
• Watch Washington Post interview with Martin Sheen and his son regarding the movie, The Way.
• Watch David Whyte : Santiago

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE RECORDED ZOOM CONVERSATION
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