“Everywhere and throughout time, beings have walked the Earth. And in their walking they have veined the landscape with paths both visible and invisible, both symmetrical and meandering. And once you begin to look about you, you too will see that the landscape is still webbed with a myriad of paths and footways — shadowing the modern-day road network, or meeting it at a slant or a perpendicular. These routes have many names and have been given many labels – pilgrim routes, green roads, droveways, corpse trails, trods, leys, drongs, sarns, and snickets. In truth their monikers, when announced with the proper tone and tempo, become a sort of poem or even a rite; these holloways and bostles and shutes and driftways; these lichways and ridings and halterpaths and carneys. And yet much more important than what they are called is what these thoroughfares represent. For just as there is always a walkway between any two given points on a map, there is also always an avenue between any two sentient beings. And just like their former, more topographical counterparts, these latter, more behavioral transverses are not merely byways to be named – they are routes to be walked.” ~ inspired by Thomas Clark & Robert Macfarlane

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