And then it was that I turned onto Old Chattanooga Pike SW, and was immediately greeted by a phenomenal bank of undulating (and horizon-blending) kudzu … “Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the […]
“Never let your childhood-programmed sense of ethics prevent you from living rightly and doing what is Right … Choose to pause and realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful than you yourself taking a path that leads to who you used to be or away from who you could well have been […]
And then it was that I came upon the Black Fox United Methodist Church, where a tiny stone sculpture outside its front door – a sculpture that was so clearly man-made – quite ironically (and quite falsely as well, at least according to Jesus himself*) boldly proclaimed that “God did it” … *“Very truly, I […]
“You often think too hard about your life – just as many a wanderer does with his or her travels. Indeed, with both life and travel, you can’t strive too much with it, or it feels like work and it won’t flow properly. No, with both life and travel within it, you have to surrender […]
“When you do or think or feel anything, do it (or think it or feel it) with passion. Hold nothing back and let it flow fully from the Heart. Put your Soul into every step, and when you do, you will feel a River of Peace flowing sweetly & steadily through you … The word […]
The walking today – first along Old Chattanooga Pike SW, and then along Old Alabama Road – was incredibly pleasant; ever smooth and mostly car-less and often shaded by stands of older hardwoods. And yet what this way had in beauty and walkability, it certainly lacked in available hydration; a steadily concerning fact that had […]
Despite a scornful visage that seems to say otherwise, I actually found it incredibly amusing how The Way kept teasing me and poking fun at my ego’s hubris – from the first day of the Walk to this, its very last. Here, I had just been told a few minutes prior that I needn’t walk […]
“I left the streets again for the hills – for the shaded winding roads that seemed to flow through vast swaths of nowhere, and as the day melted into night I eventually chose a crumbly abandoned building in which to sleep. Another day – another walk – another random rest. I’ll never visit this particular […]
I eventually made it “out of the woods” and into the town of Collegedale, where the local library was somehow so much less than welcoming. And it wasn’t only the sign on its front door warning against the use or carry of weapons within, it was the way its employees (at least on that particular […]
“ And so I walked slowly onward, without envying my companions on mechanical horseback: for I was moving along on foot, and as such could sit down wherever I wished upon any inviting spot, or climb to the edge of a pathside precipice and gaze down upon the world, or trace a river’s torrent through […]
And then I made it to Saint Stephen Catholic Church just off the side of Lee Highway; a church containing one of the warmest renditions of Jesus on the Cross (if there could ever be such a thing, and I think there could & should) I have ever seen – a rendition that had Jesus […]
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