Sant Jordi, or Saint George, is one of Barcelona’s patron saints and he is celebrated on April 23rd each year. The streets of the city fill with stalls celebrating authors, and selling books and roses. It is a romantic and cultural festivity on what is now also World Book Day. To demonstrate their love, people gift each other books and roses.
I am looking forward to this hour on this coming Saturday at noon to join in the celebration. If you know folks in the Garraf district of Barcelona who are interested in writing as a spiritual path and the search for home, and who like to read in English, would you please tell them about this gathering on Saturday in this special place which is an oasis?
It means a lot to me to talk about writing as a spiritual path in the place where my path took me for a decade while I lived in Sitges in–what seems like eons ago sometimes–the late 90s and early 21st century. I received a lot of nourishment and inspiration here.
Marianne Maili 