I stop in at a local early-opened Burger King on my way out of town for some water, and an enamored-with-The-Walk-its-Way Anthony offers me some hash brown tots and a Coca Cola to help keep my on my Way … “Everybody can be great, for the simple reason that anybody & everybody can selflessly & […]
And once again I am astounded by how many “holy homes” I am encountering on my walk through this country; all of which tend to inspire me to frown a bit – inspire me to wonder how our world would look of even a small portion of their congregants would embody only a small portion […]
“There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight the flow or to embrace it. If you fight the flow you will lose, and if you embrace the flow you become one with it and you’ll be enlivened … There were times when I was tempted to curse the trail and the weather and the […]
I made it fluidly into the center of Salem proper, and was blessed to pause for a while in the Salem Library – where I decided to leave a Gift of Gratitude: one of the handful of Pilgrimage Stones I had been carrying with me, this one from all the way back in France … […]
I left Salem lovingly behind and flowed onward into the day – into and through the town of Fort Lewis and then on into the hot and droning day. I really wasn’t feeling too motivated during this particular phase of my walking – certainly not by all the folks online who were collectively & quite […]
“If the individual realizes his self via flows of spontaneous activity – and thus re-connects himself to the world, he ceases to feel like an isolated atom. In these moments of clarity he and the world become ONE; become integral parts of one structuralized whole. Here he has rediscovered his rightful place in the Cosmos […]
And then I walked and walked and walked some more – walked until my footsteps became a part of the pavement – walked until the Sun began to set – walked until the day began to meld into night, and I, to meld into it All … “In the United States there is more space […]
I woke after a short but decent night’s sleep and proceeded to head through and out of the town of Christiansburg, and couldn’t help but note the stark difference between the grace & beauty of the town itself as compared to the glaze of dismissal (and often even outright) hostility that I had been offered […]
It is true that we are never to abandon others outright, no matter how aggressive or denouncing they might be. That said, it is just as true that we are to respect their wishes regarding our person; that if they clearly do not want us around (much less want to in any way receive or […]
“Adventures befall the unadventurous just as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. For adventures are a logical and reliable result of living life as a sentient being – beings who encounter adversity while venturing forth from home (or trying to return to the same) for any number of reasons or necessities. All adventures […]
I then flowed smoothly into the warm-vibed town of Radford – polar Yang to Christiansburg’s Yin if there ever was one – and pulled in without pause to Radford University’s McConnell Library; a place where my Walk was appreciated and I was just as lovingly welcomed – told by the staff on hand that I […]
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