I eventually flowed through the now high-heat afternoon to the hamlet of Draper Valley, where an overriding thirst had me stopping off at Estes Express Lines shipping company, where the secretarial staff and the manager on call were all extremely kind to me, letting me rest awhile in their air conditioned office and then giving […]
“I don’t like the word hike or even the thing itself. People ought never to hike anywhere – they should always saunter instead. Do you know the origin of the word saunter? It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the middle ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people […]
And finally I ambled into the outskirts of Fort Chiswell, and rolled into a highway-side Denny’s. I did so to procure some air conditioning, some rest, and some water, and yet what I received instead was a delicious vegan meal (courtesy of manager David) and a huge helping of enamored kindness (from waitress Kristen) to […]
And once more I am back out onto The Way, with a deep-seated calmness within and cool overcast skies above combining to allow for some fantastically smooth walking this morning … “Newton’s work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange Point, the place where opposing forces push or pull against one another in […]
There was a delightful display of irony in this particular sign, seeing as how A) the sign itself openly advertised the Christian religion, B) the Christian religion is not founded in the teachings of Jesus Christ at all (but is rather soaked in & indeed inundated by the dogmatic ramblings of Paul), and C) neither […]
“A good ruler has to master his world’s language – not only the language espoused by words or gestures, but also the greater and all-encompassing language of the rocks and the plants and all one’s sentient cousins. This is the language of Oneness. It isn’t a language one can hear with only one’s ears. It […]
I then made it into the town of Whytheville and its Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where the intriguing conglomeration of its denominations almost compelled me to enter. Once inside its quite literally open doors, I came upon a small Bible study in progress (a Bible study that was focusing at the time on the […]
After leaving the church I made my way steadily to the local library – a haven of inclusion and potential enlightenment, and on my way passed by a home that housed its nemesis* – division and ignorance and hate … *The symbols of these banners not only openly championed the anti-interdependence of the nationalist “Don’t […]
After my brief visit to the library I made my way onward through town to its far outskirts, where I encountered HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Existence), a lovely company started & maintained under the haloed auspices of eliminating poverty in that community. Super-kind attendant Zona was on hand when I entered that day, and made […]
“It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we return to the path, again and again and again, that determines our level of Peace & Purpose (not in that order, of course – first comes the Purpose, then comes the Peace) … And we must ever remember that the outcome […]
This day proved to be one of the most fluid of the entire pilgrimage, with me smoothly zooming down the side of the roadway; easily as well as even my very best walking days in Spain, and I made it in seeming no-time to the initial outskirts of the tiny hamlet of Rural Retreat. And […]
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