The Stone Boat: Arts, Literature & Pilgrimage

21/03/2026

Dear friends,

As spring begins to stir here on the Camino, I wanted to share a small note from the Stone Boat.

A new seasonal newsletter is taking shape, and if you would like to receive it, you are warmly welcome to join at
www.thestoneboat.com

After a long old winter, there are beautiful things beginning to emerge. The Stone Boat has come off its mooring and is slowly becoming a vessel for stories once again.

At the same time, a dear friend and long-time hospitalero of the Camino is preparing to return home after many years on the road. It has been deeply moving to witness the kindness and generosity gathering around him as he takes these next steps. If you would like to read more about his story, you will find the link in the first comment below.

More to come as I find my way out of a hermit winter and into this new season.

If you feel called, I would be glad to have you along for the journey.

Kim



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07/12/2025

Hi friends,

The weather is turning here in Rabanal and before I finish that newsletter I promised, I wanted to share this small winter project. I hope you are all keeping warm and well wherever this message finds you.

Some of you already know that I have made the great transition from innkeeper to full-time village cat wrangler. With the cold settling in and the first sprinkling of snow already behind us, I have started a little fundraiser to help keep the cats warm and fed through the winter. Gracie may be the face of it, but it supports the whole gang, and anyone who has been to Rabanal has probably met at least one of them.

If you would like to read the story or take part, the link is below.
If you are not on my newsletter list and would like to receive updates from the village, you can sign up on The Stone Boat website. The field notes come out only from time to time, just small glimpses of life here.

Happy holidays from the old holy road.
Kim

A small community project caring for the village cats who liv… Kim Narenkivicius needs your support for CATMINO: A Winter Hut for Gracie in Rabanal del Camino

24/12/2022

la nochebuena | christmas eve

Blessings to all pilgrims, sojourners, friends, and family far and wide. Much love and gratitude from Rabanal del Camino. May all beings know Peace.

18/08/2022

evening light |

Bring what you have.

You were always going
that way anyway,
you were always
going there all along.

FOR THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO

For the road to Santiago,
don’t make new declarations
about what to bring
and what to leave behind.

Bring what you have.

You were always going
that way anyway,
you were always
going there all along.

…

'For The Road to Santiago'
From
‘STILL POSSIBLE’
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press
January 2022

…

Sunset : Beck Flat Lane
Photo © David Whyte
Arncliffe
Yorkshire Dales
April 21st 2019
..

The sense of having something deep inside us that we might have carried with us all along, that can emerge on its own as we go, if we go with sincerity, if we go in the right way, with the right people to the right place; the understanding that what calls from the outside horizon has a correspondence far beneath the horizon of understanding we have established within us. DW

25/11/2021

giving thanks | last night as we were sleeping ...

Last night as we were sleeping November 25, 2021 kim narenkivicius Last night as I was sleeping,I dreamt—marvelous error!—that I had a beehivehere inside my heart.And the golden beeswere making white combsand sweet honeyfrom my old failures.- Antonio Machado. Translation by Robert BlyTimes Alone...