This day proved to be a stunning juxtaposition of beauty & difficulty, with its radiantly sunlit scenery mixed with an incredibly strong & most persistent headwind and a steadily escalating & surprisingly shooting pain in my lower legs — both of which regularly inspired me to stop and sit and wonder how I would ever get anywhere at all. In fact, said headwind was so strong at times that I was often forced to lean heavily into it to make any progress at all, and even once — quite comically — realized that I was actually making no progress at all; realized that I was taking willful steps forward into the wind “through” the small village of Villarepos, only to be blown slightly backwards with each step; realized at that moment that I was — much to the great amusement of a local resident watching me through her living room window — effectively doing nothing more than marching painfully in place … 😀

“Insightfully understanding our inner wisdom is not enough. Indeed, even our best of intentions only become relevant in the moment they are put into motion. No matter our station or happenstance, we have all been summoned to reach deep and Do Good. In truth, no matter how slow (and thus how sensitive) the film of our lives happens to be, our deepest Self always stands still long enough for that greatest of Photographers. For while it is true that our backgrounds and our circumstances have both deeply influenced how we are tempted to either act or pause, we alone are fully responsible for what we choose to do or not do — and thereby who we choose to Become.” ~ inspired by Robbie Gass & Minor White

Filed under: Peace Pilgrimage #02: Walking HOME (2019) by Scaughdt