Day 145e: Back into the bigger Gentle … (September 21, 2019)
And then finally I was free of the city’s grasping thickness, and back onto a far gentler portion of The Way …
“We’re not even really walking a trail, more like meandering through cinematic light … There’s a hum that happens inside our heads when we hit a certain walking rhythm, a certain perfect speed & vector. An easy bob & saunter when treading any path goes from feeling like climbing a mountain on my hands and knees to feeling like floating effortlessly through the clouds; it’s like breaking the sound barrier. Everything inside us shifts, and we move with an unfettered ease. And this is when the feeling of traveling changes, transforming & shifting from an exercise in exertion into an expression of exultation.” ~ inspired by Kristen Henderson & Shonda Rhimes