Walking towards Culpeper on Highway 211 was a true joy on this morning – with two lanes available for then-sparse traffic in each direction and smooth roadside shoulders available for pilgrim-walking and cooler comfortable temperatures that ever-embraced the Way … “Although time seems to fly, it never travels faster than one day at a time. […]
I ambled along quite pleasantly this day, and got into such a good groove that I found myself easily (and at times quite passionately) pre-answering questions about the Walk (and practical Selflessness and radical Kindness and self-sustainable Community and Veganism), questions posed by imaginary members of the audiences I was at that point still sure […]
I chose to regularly remember that those who chose to be unkind to their fellow sentient cousins were the ones who were losing the most in their (lack of) living, and yet it was admittedly difficult to avoid feeling slightly repulsed by the same each time I encountered it nonetheless … “A strong heart gives […]
“With every journey there is a new lesson learned, every place traveled, explored; makes us in fall in Love with the Earth anew. So care less about your whereabouts, and just keep the expedition going. Because we want to go far beyond the civilized, far beyond those merely living, far beyond the world of predictability, […]
Into and through the town of Little Fork, I walked onward on a now (thankfully) much-less-populated version of Highway 15. And yet even though there were far fewer residents on the roadway, my interactions with the same escalated surprisingly, first via a kind ex-military man and his wife who offered me first a ride and […]
“Those who call you mad will one day honor you, for no great achievement is ever possible in an insane society without first embodying a touch of madness. Those who laugh at you will one day listen to you, for working through derision is always a criteria for both greatness and sharing. Those who know […]
I eventually made it to and through the town of Catalpa and then into the outskirts of the city of Culpeper, where I decided to engage an encounter once more with my dear Friends the Jehovah’s Witnesses.* The elder on duty at the time didn’t quite know what to do with me after he answered […]
“The day he realized that it was not about him at all, but rather was about the world through which he walked, was the day he finally grew wings. The day she understood that she was not answerable to any of them who always blamed and pointed and dismissed and damned and criticized and ordered […]
“Work – good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or raw manual labor, can indeed bring forth a faint sense of Divinity at play. And yet we are here to do more than merely experience a light glimpse of the Divine. We are here to become a fully embodiment […]
Some days, like today, Google Maps sends you through odd neighborhoods and into dead end cul de sacs. And yet some days, also like today, Google Maps will lead you through the same onto smoothly winding, wide-shouldered roadways. The trick is to just keep flowing on in humble gratitude, no matter where Google Maps (or […]
“Your life becomes worthwhile when it is engaged boldly – when it essentially becomes an adventure. And adventures by their very nature are not predictable and only moderately exciting, with a lack of any real risk or danger and will ultimately predetermined outcomes. No, an adventure is life in a cascading state of things going […]
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