I woke from my short nap feeling somewhat refreshed, bot by the nap itself as well as the oddly-soothing feeling of Fall that graced the still warm breeze. And yet Highway 15 would not allow such feelings of solace to remain in mind for long, as the heavy traffic and shoulderless roadway once more had […]
Thereafter I began walking through a loooooong stretch of “nothing” – no gas stations, no business, not even any residences; just horse farm after horse farm after horse farm. I knew I could go days without food and I had already proven that I could flow onward for days without any potent interaction with others, […]
“In the midst of shadow and glare and pain and fear the light of the Divine ever leads the way. That light is always shining, and it is in all times of suffering that we need to focus on that light … Remember that the lotus is a most beautiful flower, whose petals open one […]
I walked on & on into the rising heat of the Sun and the escalating HEAT of the still-frantic Highway 15. I was still feeling exhausted and despondent from this harsh & violent way, until I suddenly remembered that “The Light is IN the tunnel, not only at its End.” And then I started embodying […]
“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic Wanderer, and woman, a noble Wanderess … Indeed the destiny of every walking man is to immerse himself in the panorama surrounding him, to immerse himself in it to the point of becoming one with it […]
I eventually made it into the outskirts of Haymarket, where the public library – as expected – was already closed. And yet there was somehow not even a tinge of disappointment as I peered through its locked doors into its empty halls (and it was quite the inviting library to boot – modern and clean […]
I was comfortable enough at the closed library, and yet staying the night there somehow didn’t feel Right, so I rose after a time and ambled onward along my way as the darkness began to descend in earnest. And indeed the darkness soon descended in full as I walked onward into the night – eventually […]
And soon it was 10pm and the restaurant was closing (it was already pretty late when Umarah had graciously offered to pay for my dinner there) and so I headed out into the night, intending on walking on until the dawn. And yet just across the way there was a parking lot containing a series […]
After a fitful 5+ hours of sleep in the cab of the aforementioned truck, I was once again up and at ’em well before the break of dawn. It was indeed still incredibly early at the time, and yet somehow Highway 15 was once more already filled with a horde of cars & trucks and […]
“To wander far from the familiar home of his more adolescent ways of belonging, doing and being, one must, as poet Mary Oliver put it, ‘stride deeper and deeper into the world.’ In truth, the surrounding culture will greatly influence the manner in which any pilgrim wanders (as will his gender and his physical constitution […]
I then made it into and through the township of New Baltimore and shortly thereafter stopped by a wayside IHOP on the near outskirts of Haymarket. I wasn’t that thirsty actually and only wanted to sit for awhile and rest, but manager Hassan (who didn’t want to be photographed) would hear none of it, telling […]
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